The journey is one long painful discovery, with motherhood the dominant metaphor.

And in the piece's dominant metaphor, that wire hanger is transformed into a long divining rod.

Biology is replacing physics as the dominant metaphor of the society.

A. I'm aware of that glass egg with the bubble inside as a dominant metaphor by now - or at least a continual metaphor.

Or perhaps it contained not enough to establish golf as the work's dominant metaphor.

The idea of the game, in fact, is the dominant metaphor.

She comes out with guns blazing under her belt: the album's dominant metaphor is oral gratification as a power play.

Living things as machines became a dominant metaphor in biological (and social) thinking.

Many of these characters seem more like poetic constructs, anchored to a single dominant metaphor, than breathing people.

Light is the dominant metaphor for God.