Word: metaphorizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Miller devotes fully half of his volume to excerpts from Williams' writings, and this is my one criticism. Although the prose has been modernized, there is tremendous amount of refugee, verbose metaphor and heaped-up simile. I think in many instances, Miller's excellent paraphrasing and meticulous explanation evident elsewhere in the book could replace these passages. Williams was not an especially lucid writer, and if the series is to achieve its goal of appealing to "every literate American of whatever age and description," the way does not lie in copious quotations from the subject but impartial and scholarly...
...greatest problems of heart surgery have cemented the relationship between surgeons and anesthesiologists so that now they tend to work more closely in many other types of cases. Dr. Sadove, who spent four wartime years in U.S. Army hospitals in England, likes to use a military metaphor: "The small-arms fire of the anesthesiologist joins the spy system of the lab to back up the surgeon's big artillery in a coordinated attack to conquer disease...
...Reader Torkildson should have seen the metaphor that got away...
...Bailey last week was like any other: nine men and three women bent on bringing in a just verdict. Looking at them as he made his final address, Britain's Attorney General Sir Lionel Heald was moved to remark: "You are like travelers in a strange country." The metaphor was apt: few stranger countries have been thrown open for exploration than the mind of John Reginald Halliday Christie, confessed murderer of seven women...
...death, the pain and joy of living and loving, animal vitality balanced against spiritual inner lights. At his weakest, he can and does riffle his images and similes like a cardsharp. At his strongest and best, he makes his poetry toe the line of his creed: "Man be my metaphor." In the 22 years since his first poem was published, Dylan Thomas has added mystic affirmation to his lyric rage. Almost as impressive as his growing to maturity is his growing acceptance and readership. Since Collected Poems was published in Britain late last year, it has sold close...