Word: metaphorical
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...things when they jointly announced the resignation in the Oval Office. "I would like to report to you that the agency is back on a very even keel and sailing well," Goss said after Bush said that he had accepted Goss's resignation. But to use the nautical metaphor, the seas are more turbulent than Goss allowed...
...this musing about curveballs got me thinking in quite another, more serious, direction. The curveball is among the host of baseball terms that has been appropriated as metaphor in the common parlance. It connotes a sudden, unexpected turn of events...
...subject to First Amendment protection, but the narrow 5-4 margin in the FCC’s favor undermined any attempt to establish a definitive standard for indecency. Justice John Paul Stevens—writing for the majority—only confused the matter with his tortured use of metaphor...
MARY MCCARTHY HAS BECOME a metaphor for an existential drama enveloping the CIA. On the surface, the question is whether CIA employees may take it upon themselves to reveal CIA secrets to the media. The answer is no. There is, in the first quarter-inch of every CIA employee's personnel file, an ironclad secrecy agreement forbidding such. It is the law--and properly so. One can easily defend the need for unyielding discipline when it comes to guarding the nation's secrets. And one can point to legitimate internal channels for dissent. But all that may be irrelevant...
...warmth are only outshone by the unique power of her approach to her work. As she goes on, studying stories, she describes her work as if she is “…drawing a map. I keep filling in more places—here is another metaphor for how people are meant to live in the world, or what people are meant to be doing. Not moral lessons, but guideposts to compassion, council, mockery, admiration, humanity...