0 relating to or using metaphors (= expressions that describe a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics): --
Their shows have also, literally and metaphorically, always indicated the labour of production and the cost of such dreaming.
These facts alone allow the term "selection" to be applied metaphorically to the operant case.
Its shape (both literally and metaphorically) has varied, and continues to vary, through time.
Pitting tradition against progress, the difference in their approaches to aging are metaphorically mapped through their ensuing literary disagreement.
Snowprints for flute, cello, piano, electronics and video explores snow both metaphorically and sonically.
At the same time silence was metaphorically conflated with chastity and speech with wantonness.
Incense is the resin or sap or, metaphorically, the "blood" of trees.
We can think of backlash metaphorically as a bungee cord that snaps when stretched too far.