Word: metaphorical
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...message and milieu, the opening of the Bicentennial celebration was marked by a more serious confusion of historical interpretation and present purpose. "The two lanterns of the Old North Church have fired a torch of freedom that has been carried to the ends of the earth," was Ford's metaphor for the action that marked the start of the colonists revolution, and throughout his speech the president revealed that it was more the torch than the freedom that he found inspiring. The blood of the Civil War, the corpse-ridden trenches of the First World War and the seared flesh...
...never found either my high school principal or cliches terribly insightful, but this metaphor seems strangely applicable to Harvard. Its educational ocean is filled with more than the normal complement of sharks and barracuda, electric eels and suckers: and to most people, just how they will find their place in the land of Neptune-in-Cambridge is as mysterious as the location of sunken Atlantis...
...sight of the over-burdened earth moves these "crisis environmentalists" to advocate tough policies: positive and negative monetary incentives, rationing of children, sterilizing materials in the water supplies and compulsory abortion. Acknowledging that coercion diminishes freedom and is especially hard on the poor, these crisis environmentalists admit that the metaphor of an overcrowded lifeboat is a harsh one, requiring harsh ethics, but that it is "the basic metaphor within which we must work out our solutions," in the words of Mr. Garrett Hardin, author of "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor." Mr. Hardin's argument is that humanity...
...portentous statement, "Election Day: November 1968," such a gem of grafitti would have reflected the end of Shampoo's analysis of human behavior. It would have prepared us for what follows, a farce in which the wanton insatiable cocks and cunts of Los Angeles suburbanites become an overextended, tiresome metaphor for the political machinations of the pricks in Washington. It seems that every time two beautiful people are in close enough proximity to become aroused, Nixon's face appears on the screen, either on a wall poster, beaming with that entreating, deceitful smile, or on a television, unctuously articulating...
...matter that the story is perhaps spurious and that scholars have proved that the actual author of the letters was the Vicomte de Guillereagues, a Parisian man-about-town who dabbled in the study and analysis of passion. The metaphor still holds. "What woman is not a nun, sacrificed, self-sacrificing, without a life of her own, sequestered from the world?" the three Marias...