James Geary, metaphorically speaking

Metaphorically, Israel s national psyche oscillates between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Such nonsense should not be uttered not even metaphorically speaking!

During the last four years of his life, Arafat s public space was literally and metaphorically diminishing.

I rubbed my eyes (metaphorically of course), got out of bed, and turned on the tap.

With Romney, though, there would be no distance at all metaphorically speaking, he is the financial sector.

How does it really work? It turns out there is a back room that is kind of windowless, metaphorically speaking.

As some conservative commentators like to point out, the environmental movement has indeed become a dark force, not metaphorically, but literally.

The other side is planted like that by the men. Metaphorically, you turn it on the side, and you have a piece of cloth.

If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food, and gold bars.

Metaphorically, military power provides a degree of security that is to political and economic order as oxygen is to breathing little noticed until it begins to become scarce.

Metaphorically, military power provides a degree of security that is to political and economic order as oxygen is to breathing little noticed until it begins to become scarce.

In the society in which it is told, a creation myth is usually regarded as conveying profound truths, metaphorically, symbolically and sometimes in a historical or literal sense.

We use them metaphorically the DNA of a company, the metabolism of a city, and so on is that just bullshit, metaphorical bullshit, or is there serious substance to it?

Indeed, metaphorically, military power provides a degree of security that is to order as oxygen is to breathing little noticed until it becomes scarce, at which point its absence dominates all else.

In life, we all have tempests to ride and poles to walk to, and I think metaphorically speaking, at least, we could all benefit from getting outside the house a little more often, if only we could sum up the courage.

And the tourist brochures pointed me in the direction of this bridge I love bridges, metaphorically and symbolically and structurally and it was a bit of a disappointment, because of the sludge from the river was encrusted on it it really wasn't in use.

As some conservative commentators like to point out, the environmental movement has indeed become a dark force, not metaphorically, but literally. Indeed, urging us to sit in darkness will probably only make us realize how unlikely it is that we will ever be convinced to give up the advantages of fossil fuels.