Publishers Weekly agreed: "Vice has a gift for making the extraordinary plausible, for rendering complex motivations in spare but metaphoric language and searing details."

Walid Sadek uses poetic and metaphoric language to evoke on post war Lebanon.

The lyrics are romance-centered, and use metaphoric language to some degree.

Legal historian Edward de Grazia has argued that few readers would have been fully aware of the orgasmic experience in the text, given the metaphoric language.

Ms. Abakanowicz has commented, "Sculpture does not decorate but is part of the metaphoric language which conveys more than we can express in words."

Some passages in the Bible are written as poetry, full of metaphoric language and imagery, and were never meant to be taken literally, he said.

Such vivid, metaphoric language epitomizes and illustrates the ultimate truths and values of the police world.

However, it is often lyrical and features some densely-packed metaphoric language.

Thirdly, Sidney implies a theory of metaphoric language in his work.

Yet he develops his own idea of metaphoric language, one that it is based on an analogy through universal correspondences.