Word: metaphores
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...success. James found his drama in nuance and inference, in the risky currents of society which can warm or chill in their natural course. When James' people talk about being invited to a salon or about being cut off, they are employing the author's own intricate metaphor-performing a ritual of crucial selection. Bogdanovich and his screenwriter, Frederic Raphael (Darling), have swept out all the undertone from Jamesian society, trying instead to make high drama out of mere social graces. It is a little like trying to wring a sonnet out of a bill of fare...
Here her alliteration works, subtly drawing the passage together without bombarding the reader with useless repetition. The imagery is strong and suggestive, but not full of the mixed metaphor which detracts in so many of her other pieces. She gives a credible child's insight into an adult world. Spivack writes best when she refrains from being overtly cosmic...
...pleased with the profits and promise of her gallery. She and a friend, Eleanor Robbins, started the Off the Square Gallery eight years ago, exhibiting, at that time, the work of young art students. "Now," Salter confides, "the gallery has established a stable of artists." Such a metaphor makes one wonder exactly how their works could be described...
...metaphor that infuriates both liberated women and spirited youth. God holds in his hands a hammer (symbolizing a husband). The husband/hammer bangs a chisel (representing the obedient wife) that "chips away the rough edges" to turn a diamond in the rough (a teenager) into...
...subtlest inter play of gray over gray, unified by the stippled crust of Gris's opaque and polished pigment, these simple objects acquire the amplitude and severity of a Romanesque nave, and one realizes that when Gris used the word "architecture," he was not using a metaphor: the slanting displacement of the still life, as though seen through rolled glass, suggests a kind of response to structural loading-slippage, compression, shear. What Gris's work lost at one end of the spectrum, that of concrete physical feeling, It picked up at the other, that of pure ideation...