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Example sentences for: metaphoric

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Tobin, editor of the Riverside edition, observes in his introduction to the poem that it has "none of the metaphoric genius that makes Shakespeare Shakespeare."
The coverage is uneven: sop to Cerberus is in, but not Pegasus (even though it is not couched in a metaphoric phrase that I can think of).
The briefcase, by the way, was metaphoric; the money was to come from mysterious off-shore accounts.
However unfortunate purists might view that fact to be, at least if the entries are listed separately, at some graphic remove from the entry for chain , their physical distance would make their semantic, metaphoric distance more understandable.
Although many articles, theoretical essays, and books have been written about metaphors, little effort has been made to investigate them systematically: as all of language is itself a metaphor (unless one believes in logomancy), one is continually confronted in the compilation of an ordinary dictionary with examples of semantic and linguistic changes (as well as amelioration, pejoration, etc.) that are tantamount to shifts of meaning that, loosely, could be said to be metaphoric.