Examples of metaphorical

• Some students might benefit from explicit attention to the analogical relationships of the literal to the metaphorical elements.

• In the first place, it is unlikely that sensory information can be moved to a focus of attention except in a metaphorical sense.

• Specifially, those beliefs or assertions which are purely expressive, metaphorical, or whose truth value cannot be determined.

• It has been suggested to me that one important aspect of subjective progressives is that they tend to involve metaphorical uses of verbs.

• Once again, a great deal is made to hang on a rather slender metaphorical reed.

• Often it is precisely the metaphorical 'seeds' produced during the maturity of the preceding period that are thought to generate the new period's growth.

• Not merely meant for looking through, then, this metaphorical window is the matrix through which space is projected and/or imagined.

• The three metaphorical transformations are audible through the layers of observable musical elements to which they give rise: materials, expression, form and value.

• These projects were not conceived as metaphorical critiques.

• This was mirrored in the metaphorical association of old age with wisdom and experience - the latter being one of the fundamental signifiers of old age.

• The apparent dichotomy between metaphorical and logical reasoning is here bridged.

• Such problems supported the conclusion that past and present kinship groups, recreated through the systematic application of kinship rules, were more metaphorical than substantive.

• The idiomatic interpretations of both of these expressions are metaphorical extensions of their literal, military interpretations.

• Perhaps this overemphasis on literal images inadvertently discouraged metaphorical responses.

• Much has been written about the metaphorical and philosophical reasons for their stasis, their inability to leave.