Word: metaphoritis
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...Billionaire Recluse Howard Hughes. Doar also said that his staff would "investigate whether or not there was criminal fraud for which the President is responsible" in his tax returns for 1969 through 1972. Declared Representative M. Caldwell Butler, a Republican member of the committee from Virginia, in a metaphor of dubious reassurance to the White House as it entered upon the crucial week: "The staff has put down its shotgun and picked up a rifle...
...brief in fiction. A native Mississippian herself, Ellen Douglas has made her argument palpable in her milieu. The Southern-Gothic setting-decaying classical porticos plus mazes of wisteria and Confederate jasmine-closes around the reader and, like a perfect symbol, becomes the substance as well as the metaphor for the author's theme of human dissolution. The politics of old age turns into the poetry of mortality...
...Garrett Epps and some of his classmates, the Strike served as an educational force, a central metaphor for understanding the society around them. Nothing in our educations fills that place. We have to rely on history...
This is a deadeyed, deadpan existential amorality play that has found a metaphor to make the 1950s come alive. At least it spins a superbly ironic fairy tale out of the emotional hibernation of those years in America, the simmering, collective detachment that could muffle hysteria and dull death...
...more ingenuity, greater effort and less tenderizer.) History's most prominent fisherman was, of course, St. Peter, who later turned to netting souls. In the years A.D., angling was seen as something more than the mere coaxing of coldblooded vertebrates from water. Consider, for example, Shakespeare's metaphor...