All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.
Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.
A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification
The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.
Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.