Word: metaphoric
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...Casey Stengel's memoirs were to appear written in the plodding, colorless prose of an introductory mathematics textbook, it would still be difficult to find a book as unrevealing of the author's character as A Profile. Virtually all of Pettigrew's exuberance, humor, and fondness for improbable metaphor has been carefully excluded. Yet if scholarship has supplanted lively writing, the scholarship is always topnotch and usually provocative...
...revived the originals. One song from 1939's DuBarry Was a Lady, for example, illustrates just what sort of lady DuBarry was. Called But in the Morning, No, it is a seduction duet in which a man and woman practically stage an exhibition as they woo in questionable metaphor...
Author Friedman, 34, and an editor of adventure magazines, employs a distinctive, metaphor-strewn prose whose characteristic sound is that of a 33-r.p.m. record being played at 333. Anxiety rides every page, and the wit is wounding...
...beautiful rhythm of their lines by deliberately stuttering and halting over them for a kind of dramatic effect. All the dramatic effect one can possibly ask for is right in the dialogue; one simply has to speak it naturally. As a result of this superficial treatment, much of the metaphor of the play goes unnoticed, and the deeply philosophical second act seems horribly out of place...
...personally announced "notable advances" for the second quarter in gross national product (a new record), nonfarm employment (another new record), and personal income. But the tide does not seem to be lifting everyone equally, and the Senate Select Committee on Small Business has just produced another, less pleasant nautical metaphor. As the committee sees it, U.S. small business is "floundering in the backwash" of the speeding economy, failing for the first time in modern business history to share proportionately in the nation's prosperity...