Word: metaphorizes
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...present Mrs. William Rose Benét, gained her literary reputation when she published, in 1921, a book of poems called Nets to Catch the Wind. After Black Armour, more poetry, she poured into a mold of prose the fluent and shining metal of her talent for metaphor. Jennifer Lorn was her first novel; The Orphan Angel and The Venetian Glass Nephew its successors. Author Wylie, her publishers announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears to be; Author Wylie thinks before...
...reached a point in working for foreign missions beyond which they should not go until they had done more efficient missionary work in their own communities. Said an Episcopal official: "What's the matter? Spiritual inertia and laziness." Missionary C. H. Fenn, home on furlough, spoke in metaphor, saying that the church was infected with "fatty degeneration of the heart, pernicious anemia, cerebrospinal meningitis, cancer, and neuritis." Not the least cogent and discouraging explanation was supplied by the New York Herald-Tribune which mischievously remarked that only in times of physical distress were spiritual remedies at the height...
...aggressor nation breaks it, the peace is no longer valid, and it may he attacked. What it does do, is to make nations liable merely on the grounds of political honor, an unsecured liability chosen instead of the punitive assets of the League, which seems, to continue the metaphor, bad business...
...consensus that Leon Trotzky is the most brilliant of all the Soviet leaders, not even excepting Lenin. In stature small and unimpressive and in appearance like a university professor, he is a striking orator with a rare gift for metaphor. As an organizer, he probably has not an equal in all Russia, which is not noted for producing genius of that type. Fearlessness in debate has at once been his strength and his weakness; for by it he conquered and because of it he was conquered...
...sense all the persons of the story are symbols of certain ideas in the muddle that preceded the War. Peeperkorn personifies the strength, the glitter of royalty. What gives the metaphor power is the juxtaposition of death. Author Mann shows how men can adapt themselves to an environment of mortality by forgetting its existence. So countries squabble and chatter in the presence of catastrophe; so men, in the shadow of an enormous horror, pursue their silly and incongruous intrigues...