metaphor

“Well, I don’t think we want Redford to be that way. For three decades he’s been a kind of metaphor for this country and his film roles have reflected that.”

It also feels like a moment — to use a sports metaphor, which I’m not an athlete — that you’re lacing up your shoes.

As the word “depreciation” suggests, the metaphor here is that this woman was more like a car than a person; she had no rights that a man needed to respect.

The War on Drugs has always been a metaphor, not a real military conflict.

Birds, too, which show up in random shots and, like the lakes and rivers, function as a sort of psychic relief for the viewer and metaphors for the story.