| 单词 | simile |
| 例句 | “In the account I struck upon an especially suitable simile in comparing the Scenicruiser bus to a loop-the- loop in a surrealistic amusement park.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But soon they found an explanation, which he illustrates with a looser simile: We’re all used to gravity being a force that does only one thing: pull objects toward each other. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “It’s a simile. I didn’t say you were a goat, I said you smell like a goat. Didn’t you learn anything in English class?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes, and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Weathercock can without the wind,” suggested Jo, as he paused for a simile. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s called poetic license. Something allowed in a story that isn’t so in real life. Like a metaphor or a simile.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “But the simile does not suit us, for you are no moth, and I am not a fire.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The General was a portly, ugly man, his manners were not refined, and his talk was conspicuous for an eagerness to apply military similes to a very wide variety of matters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z And a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But whenever you hear bad poets declaiming their bad poetry, filled with foolish similes and ugly rhymes, you will know which of the meads they have tasted. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Colonel Korn was pleased with the simile and filed a mental reminder to repeat it the next time he found himself in General Peckem’s presence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Though no writer can avoid idioms altogether—they’re part of the English lexicon, just like individual words—good writers reach for fresh similes and metaphors that keep the reader’s sensory cortexes lit up. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z McGuire is overfond of similes; there are far too many “likes” in the novel. The Rebel, the Policeman and a Chase Through Britain and Beyond 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z At first, the ballet’s central image is a comic simile. Review: ‘The Two Pigeons,’ Frederick Ashton’s Look at Love 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z I don't even know what that last simile means, but it's the sort of thing I say. Thank God for Clive James 2012-06-24T19:00:09Z Lil Wayne, on his verse in the remix of Future’s “Karate Chop,” invoked Till as part of an explicit sexual simile. Critic’s Notebook: Lil Wayne and Other Rappers Run Afoul of Propriety 2013-05-07T18:41:15Z Choose your simile; they’re all on offer, as well as accompanying sound effects. Review: In ‘Remote New York,’ an Unseen Tour Guide Calls the Shots 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z And she’s ever able to spin beautiful metaphor and simile, the old-fashioned stuff of poetry. Rita Dove's collected poems should put her back in the center of the American conversation 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z As a writer, she employs rhetorical flourishes and imprecise similes that are not just senseless; they actively detract from the narrative. A Botanist’s Desire Turns Toxic in This Novel of Romantic Obsession 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z And then, struck with the impossibility of communicating the exquisiteness of having been a dragon in flight, Korga reaches for the most apt simile he can imagine. In Praise of Samuel R. Delany 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z As a writer, she is less sophisticated, with a weakness for the easy simile. For a Woman on Wall Street, Crude Jokes Weren’t the Worst of It 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z But the scenery is as powerful as the simile, especially at night. Personal Journeys: Viewing the World From an Airline Window Seat 2010-03-24T21:25:00Z Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beachby Jean Sprackland So-called "nature writing" is the Olympics of metaphor production, requiring technical agility and testing the writer's stamina for simile. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z Social media was not full of snarky similes and comparisons to cartoon characters. The Golden Globes’ 500 Shades of Black: Did It Work? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The simile itself is fine, though, and the female connotations of the round "nest of boxes" very appropriate: as the concluding lines show, Cavendish is writing consciously as a woman. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z Both of those, with crucial modifications, would seem well suited to young ears; “Kick Drum Heart,” which hammers at its central simile, would be fine as it is. Music Review: Persistent Sunny Spells With an Occasional Cloud 2010-10-15T21:47:00Z On the other hand, I did enjoy underlining the many fun and weird similes. Review | Decades after a volatile life and a brutal death, a Japanese writer is back in the spotlight 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z What I'm not clear on is whether Claudel is deliberately trying to create a kind of decaying trash-heap prose – a prose where straightforward nouns are attacked by hideous, nonsensical growths, corrosive metaphors and similes. The Investigation by Philippe Claudel – review 2013-02-07T09:00:02Z “The picture slides from my mind, slippery as wet spaghetti,” Zoe exclaims at one point, which is a simile with as much literary merit as wet spaghetti. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Metaphors and similes, scuffed perhaps in translation, often miss their mark. Books of The Times: ‘The Sound of Things Falling,’ by Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2013-07-30T17:03:23Z Most people now read Raymond Chandler less for the mystery than for the sassy similes and the weary melancholy in Philip Marlowe’s voice: Review | Locked-room masterpieces from Japan are the perfect escape for summer 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z And so, it turns out, "the world's greatest living writer" has spent his career solemnly trying to ape the elaborate comic similes of Blackadder. The Death of Eli Gold by David Baddiel ? review 2011-03-05T00:07:11Z The novel's similes conform to a similar pattern: "The feeling of being completely sodden, like some corpse long suspended in water." The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z She rarely reaches for metaphor, simile, the bon mot or the mot juste. Review: Rebecca Makkai’s ‘Music for Wartime,’ Stories With Echoes of Loss 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z With this he takes off his spectacles and rubs his eyes, looking like a riled-up border-town newspaperman in a Western, a simile he would no doubt enjoy. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z The average American is ballooning like a balloon, which is a very bad simile and a dangerous subject to write about, except I am paid to do this and protected by the First Amendment. Perspective | He’s not writing about Trump this week. And if you believe that, try this no-diet diet. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Almost all of this novel’s metaphors and similes emerge from the author’s experience of the Internet and his sense of the way it is colonizing consciousness. Books of The Times: ‘Taipei,’ by Tao Lin 2013-06-04T12:00:01Z From the very beginning, when he began to publish pieces in Story magazine and Ploughshares, and later Granta and The New Yorker, Hemon's prose has been chiselled, direct, though saturated with similes. Nowhere man 2013-02-23T08:00:16Z Although Pat didn't use her private writings about Ginnie in "Salt," their beautiful urgency — as personal as her inked finger pressed on a page — swell the book's similes. What Patricia Highsmith did for love: 'The Price of Salt' and the secrets behind 'Carol' 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z “Her letters to me at boarding school were writerly ones,” he said, “full of description and simile, so I guess something of that rubbed off on me.” Jonathan Raban, Adventurous Literary Traveler, Dies at 80 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z There are bad words, sex jokes, nasty similes and put-downs whose matter may be reduced to "You're ugly," "You're old" and "You have no career." 'Jack & Triumph Show' a twistedly sweet tale of a boy, his dog 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z The first passage below is an example of Rossetti's use of extended similes to create a verbal pre-Raphaelite portrait. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z The metaphors and similes often slip away from her. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z This cinematic device is underlined by the "Super-8" simile in lines six to eight and later references to slo-mo and panning. Poem of the week: Autobiography Without Pronouns by Tiffany Atkinson 2013-04-08T10:09:25Z That's exactly how the chapter on the heart kicks off, and, after listing a suite of heart similes, the analysis is simply that the heart "is many things to many people". Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams; Extremes by Kevin Fong – review 2013-02-24T00:07:13Z True to their island background, the two offered a nautical simile that sums up the voyage so far. Wet Leg, the Indie-Rock Duo, Blew Up Fast. They Know It’s Weird. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z There are no similes in his work, no flights of lyricism or fancy writing, no hints of a deeper meaning beyond the moment. The Eavesdropper’s Secret: On John O’Hara 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps because of his training as a psychiatrist, Mr. Lobo Antunes is also an unusually observant writer, which in turn seems to have bestowed on him a particular gift for coining unusual but apt similes. Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z But others rely on unhelpful similes, such as when a woman says of a partner, “He treated me like a Dumpster, jamming his contaminated waste into me.” Review: ‘She’ Brings Stories of Sexual Violence to the Stage 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The equestrian simile turns an abstract idea into a strikingly concrete memory. Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z "Can you expand on the drugs simile you used to explain the film last night?" Meeting Mr Controversial 2013-07-31T08:21:02Z And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z It's lucky, as the book is built on likenesses, that Beauman has such a talent for metaphor and simile. The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman – review 2012-07-26T07:00:02Z If he wanted to describe the smell of coffee, he trained the program with examples and then asked it to generate similes until he found one he liked. Peering Into the Future of Novels, With Trained Machines Ready 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z One image follows another, as if there were always the need for a richer simile. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Conversation was for him a continuous experiment, in which he'd playfully draft phrases, similes and metaphors to fit the experience in hand, as if everything that happened might be a potential poem in the making. My hero Robert Lowell by Jonathan Raban 2010-07-02T23:05:00Z But Perry's song is not as meaningful as either of those, with a confusing string of similes in the verse leading into an unrelated metaphor in the chorus. Katy Perry comes to KeyArena, demonstrates the power of blending in 2011-07-14T14:01:06Z Yanique, meanwhile, brings the natural world of the Virgin Islands into high relief, with similes that seem to erupt effortlessly from the lushness of her prose. The Virgin Islands, Rewritten 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z In “Wednesday Poem,” Joel Dias-Porter writes, “I open my folder of nature poems, / then close the folder and slump in a chair. / What simile can seal a bullet wound?” A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Ted came to England as a broken man with a gentle smile on his face, a head full of homespun similes, cornpone puns and a heart bursting with Midwestern niceness. Time to move on from the "Ted Lasso" way after a bloated season 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z If I was sat there trying to think of an appropriate simile, I'd literally use the first one I came up with. Alan Partridge: a look inside his mind 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z The author uses very little over the top description, not many similes or metaphors and keeps it simple. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - review 2013-06-15T14:00:00Z Nicki’s posterior is another frequent topic of conversation, so you might want to save the incoming cupcake simile for after your breakfast. Hear Nicki Minaj, Drake, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown Team Up for 'Only" 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z It seems just like the kind of slightly surreal utterance Singh often bandies around in interviews, but Cornershop's rather wonderful new album literalises this simile. Cornershop on their new album, six years in the making 2011-02-17T21:30:00Z Brook's simile may no longer hold true for banks or greengrocers. Why regional theatres should be out and proud in 2011 2011-01-04T13:45:07Z D’Avenia’s relationship to simile is misguided and cynical: used to obfuscate, not clarify. Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z On several occasions, Leo — who is only in his mid-20s — nearly approaches Wodehouse in the zing of his similes: “The doorbell rings again, and my train of thought is derailed and several passengers are killed.” ‘The Gentleman’: a Wodehouse wanna-be that (kind of) does 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Writers often resort to similes and metaphors to describe a wine, likening it to a string quartet or a brass band or a ballet. Finding the Right Words for the Red Wines of Languedoc 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z All manuscripts should be in 12 pt. type, double spaced with one-inch margins, sequentially numbered pages, and contain exactly four metaphors, three similes, two foreigners, and one tear drop stain. Let the writers eat cake: This $225 writing manual outrages the already-pinched literary class 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Even better are the similes and metaphors Macdonald uses to sketch his characters. A literary mystery: What drew Eudora Welty to detective writer Ross Macdonald? 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z And the comestible similes are irresistible when assessing this play’s bright and cloying flavors. ‘American Wee-Pie’ cooks up a sugary-sweet second chance 2014-01-29T20:56:29Z Severus is likened to “a new C.E.O., brought in to effect a restructuring,” while the Colosseum was “as revolutionary as Facebook or Twitter,” a simile no less baffling than it is anachronistic. The Bizarre Lives of Rome’s Emperors 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The Host language is so alien that it can only be spoken by genetically engineered Ambassadors, and uses human colonists as living similes for complex ideas. Can fantasy ever tell the truth? 2011-03-17T09:37:12Z It’s not just the meticulous choice of vocabulary, the metaphors, the memorable similes. Elena Ferrante: A writer’s talent is like a fishing net, catching daily experiences that can educate 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Do you find the similes come smoother when you haven't brushed your teeth? Anakana Schofield: how to publicise a novel 2013-07-25T14:01:00Z It's still possible to criticise an occasional straining after metaphor or simile. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T09:00:00Z This was on a January evening so far below zero each intake of breath felt like … well, similes and metaphors fail me. Whether can be a character outside a film too 2011-02-03T15:10:49Z He repeatedly underlines the inhumanity of the situation prisoners face by using similes comparing them to animals. Books of The Times: Liao Yiwu’s ‘For a Song and a Hundred Songs’ 2013-07-02T21:08:39Z In that extraordinary simile, "her neck quaked like curd", Lizzie herself has become edible, a kind of junket. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z Forgive the simile, but I often think of plot like a clothesline: ideally, you don’t really notice it, and your eye falls on the colorful, billowing clothes instead. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The Cinderella simile is an apt one for contemporary performing artists, who typically get scant recognition or compensation for their toils. 2010-01-23T03:02:00Z Indeed, though he is often accused of being willfully esoteric in his films, he is at his least pretentious here in , his choice of similes in particular wonderfully humorous and playful. Ingmar Bergman, novelist 2013-02-17T19:00:00Z Given Stegner’s lifelong fascination with the American West, a landscape simile seems appropriate. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Sadly, “White Lies” is often problematic: full of liberal pieties, patriotic credulity and threadbare similes. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z He’s definitely a man still full of similes and metaphors — about women, the weather, the color of the skies in the dusty Mexican towns he visits. It’s 1988 and Philip Marlowe Is Retired. But Not for Long. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The poem begins with a simile, the subject of which will be revealed as "this new coldness in the air." Poem of the week: How Snow Falls by Craig Raine 2010-12-06T10:27:00Z It trundles on, full of interesting details and less interesting prose, with the occasional toe-stubber of a simile along the trail. A Debut Novel Reimagines the C.I.A.’s Efforts to Promote ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Not all of them involve wit or nimble similes or the contemplation of actuality’s more antic aspects. Books of The Times: J. M. Coetzee’s ‘Childhood of Jesus’ Dissects a World 2013-08-28T21:20:05Z Missy Elliott raps, “Let’s smoke these ghosts like Backwoods,” as if someone were holding her loved ones hostage until she wrote 100 paranormal similes. The Playlist: Fall Out Boy Makes Us Very Afraid 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Well, I was going to say “an eel,” but since that mermaid stuff is more or less ditched after the opening, I’d better find a new set of similes. Review: A Shaggy Fish Story With a Bounty of Questing Heroines 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The actor had a face that elicited many similes, among them "a stone archway" and "a bag of spanners". Pete Postlethwaite obituary 2011-01-03T18:27:54Z That’s the overriding tone: chatty, informal, occasionally spiced by digressions that, echoing Homer’s brilliant use of simile, seek humble parallels in contemporary life to the passions that inflamed the Greeks and Trojans. Theater Review: ?An Iliad? at New York Theater Workshop 2012-03-08T03:00:16Z Still, Buckley leavens the prose with plenty of cute similes: a worn-out LP sounds like a "rhino chewing a bale of cellophane". Telescope by Jonathan Buckley - review 2011-08-26T21:55:04Z I would say that they get along like a house on fire, but, in Jack-Jack’s case, the simile may be unwise. “Incredibles 2,” Reviewed: A Sequel in the Shadow of a Masterwork 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z As all successful biographers should do, Jones doesn’t cheerlead his own writing style by adding unnecessary flourishes or similes; he lets the subject’s actions and quotes energize the book. Review | A portrait of Dr. Seuss offers a look at the prankster workaholic behind the iconic characters 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z As both a simian simile and a wonder of technology, deserves to be in the company of the great original Kong. Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Chimpan-tastic! 2011-08-04T16:05:00Z I had always thought sarcasm was one of the many tools of language, like similes or pronouns, your propensity for which you wouldn’t consider a defining trait, let alone a requirement in a life partner. Analysis | So you want to date someone who’s sarcastic? How original. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z And there is also a bout of juggling with dumplings, masterminded by a down-to-earth auntie with a strong and bewildering line – "potty as a pancake" – in culinary similes. My Dad's a Birdman; Beauty and the Beast; Les parents terribles; Alice in Wonderland 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z Wilson gives us the simile, one of the loveliest in Homer. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Implicit in his dystopic perspective is an indictment of poetic simile. New poetry from Jane Mead and Daniel Borzutzky examine death — in both human and national forms 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The “Daily Show” host offered up one of his famous similes for the occasion: “Long-term, mentioning his brother’s name is like wearing an ‘I F*ck Dogs’ T-shirt during your campaign,” Stewart said. Jon Stewart eviscerates the Bush family: Praising George W. is like wearing an “I F*ck Dogs” tee 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Especially if they’ve missed Watson’s example of a “simile using like”: “There’s a monster under my bed who changes like a chameleon.” Word Up! Three Picture Books and a Graphic Novel Celebrate the Power and Joy of Language 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z See, I’m falling into the language of the genre myself, using that ice cream simile. Review: In ‘Of Good Stock,’ Alicia Silverstone Is a Sister in Distress 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Up to this point, the poem has been largely a catalogue of marvels, stylistically notable for its rococo similes and quick transitions between episodes. ‘Jason and the Argonauts’: Picture thepre-Trojan War equivalent of the Avengers Mr. Baker sinks similes as if they were high, arcing three-point shots. Books of The Times: ‘Traveling Sprinkler’ Is Nicholson Baker’s New Novel 2013-09-09T21:31:25Z Critics have compared Ms. Wilson’s rapid rapping, heavy with similes and punch lines, to Lil Wayne’s, and her ability to slip from a quicksilver flow to singing R&B hooks has drawn comparisons to Drake. Six Hopefuls Worth Watching at the CMJ Music Marathon 2012-10-15T21:47:30Z A reader who loved Moore's linguistic inventiveness – "all your puns and similes and allusions" – seized on this example and said: "I wondered whether anyone has ever compared you to Gertrude Stein." Guardian book club: The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z But his similes and syntax — sentences that build tension through accumulation, creating a messy sense of overflow — conjure the tempestuousness of a teenage love. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z With all its loose energy, its generosity of attention and invention, its puckishness and wild similes, its lyric intensities and its sudden lurches of feeling, The Yips is a novel that's more than just odd. The Yips by Nicola Barker - review 2012-07-18T07:00:03Z He slings those in a new song, “After You Die,” a long list of similes — “like a tramp choir crying/like a campfire dying”— to ponder oblivion. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z It flew through thousands of lines of verse like a drone over a wildlife habitat, snapping pictures of similes, allusions, and metatheses. Hacking the Humanities 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Yet these adventures ditched traditional, high-flown prose in favour of stylised American slang, the pages juggling steel-trap dialogue with silken similes. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z As does the suggestion that we should be surprised when rural voters recognize the difference between a simile and a metaphor. ‘Irresistible’ Review: The Voters Are Red, the Message Is Blue 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z His similes want to leap from their pages. Alan Moore’s sprawling new epic, ‘Jerusalem’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z It also allows Kelly some vivid similes, as in, “Your Grandma was like a snare laid out by God for Red Kelly.” ‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ Review: a 19th-Century Outlaw Tale 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z He crafts dialogue with the florid, evocative quality endemic to writers who get their start on pulp literature, wielding similes like brass knuckles. Trolled across concrete: why Mel Gibson's new film is a curious provocation 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Boras then went into one of his similes and word plays. What mega-agent Scott Boras had to say about the Mariners at MLB GM meetings 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Second row Samuel Slade's simile, comparing his team's ability to adapt to a pokemon, was the most audacious attempt and when the poker faces started to slip. Borthwick zeroes in on ideal team as Samoa await 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z He’d load up on high-flying similes and florid descriptions — of being “as empty of life as a scarecrow’s pockets,” of plants “with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.” 'The Big Sleep' made Steph Cha want to write fiction — and rewrite Chandler 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z We talked about all sorts of things, and he loved it when I enthused about a simile or some syntactic tour de force. Working with the poet who told us to ‘Praise the Mutilated World’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z That cetaceous simile deliberately mirrors Clute’s own baroque style and might also be the best description of his critical persona that anyone has ever given. Review | Four books remind us that a bookish life can be so fulfilling 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z He used a convoluted simile: The Mariners were like a high school kid taking his girlfriend to a football game. After 21 years, Seattle fans try to will Mariners to victory 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z The use of figurative language, such as similes, metaphors, hyperbole, or personification, often enhances these descriptions. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Lautréamont’s book was rediscovered and championed by the Surrealists after World War I, and this particular simile became a kind of foundational mantra for the movement. The Ceramists Ushering in a New Era of Surrealism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z In making the untouchable physical and the abstract concrete, they are creating not just similes but ways to conceive of these planets as actual places. You Don’t Need a Spaceship to Grow ‘Weird Little’ Martian Radishes 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Not “like” a religion — McWhorter refuses to hedge this contention with simile. Review | At war with the woke: A fresh perspective makes the same tired arguments 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Poetry exists in our everyday — even when we use similes or metaphors to tell stories to our friends — so there are no limits in how it appears in our lives. New to poetry? These poets will help you get started 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The word as or like appears in a simile. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z It called for him to write a poem using a simile or metaphor. Perspective | A former cop created a program to help Baltimore kids. Now, she’s hoping to give them more: a permanent safe haven. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Wright transforms Caravaggio’s theatrical chiaroscuro lighting technique, popularized in the 16th and 17th centuries as a religious simile for spiritual illumination, into a metaphor of rational enlightenment. 'The Blue Boy' for 'A Bird': The Joseph Wright painting at the center of a Huntington swap 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Other times, it suspends then reanimates an image with simile: “I raise up / like the highest Black hand in history class.” The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Well, it’s a better simile that online dating. Mariners officially report for start of ‘Summer Camp’ 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Like Du Bois, try to use figurative language, such as similes or personification, in your description, and include the relevant sensory elements of the artifact: its appearance, taste, smell, sound, and feel. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Elsewhere, Alther’s similes are more far-fetched — for instance, when she writes that a body in the ship’s morgue is “like an alligator in the sewers of Manhattan.” With a grieving physician and a ship of fools, novel ‘Swan Song’ sets sail on a journey worth taking 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z “As all successful biographers should do, Jones doesn’t cheerlead his own writing style by adding unnecessary flourishes or similes; he lets the subject’s actions and quotes energize the book,” wrote a Washington Post reviewer. True crime, mystery, a Dr. Seuss biography and 3 more new paperback titles to check out 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z As these rhymed similes and metaphors accrue, many of the standard heroic traits reveal themselves. What's the best hip-hop lyric to name-drop Kobe Bryant? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z During his first interview since signing with the team, he served up a perfect simile to describe his arrival onto Los Angeles’ sports scene, which will be officially announced Tuesday. Column: Javier "Chicharito" Hernández says he's in 'right place at right time' as Galaxy's brightest star 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z But the use of figurative language, in this case a simile comparing his action to a squirrel’s, helps readers imagine and share Twain’s terror as if they are experiencing the event in the same way. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z In the absence of facts, readers are barraged by similes. Review | Profiles in Thinking About Courage: inside ‘A Warning’ by Anonymous 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The Post critic warned readers they would be "barraged by similes" due to the "absence of facts." Washington Post pans 'A Warning,' rips Trump official for staying anonymous 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Manchester United v Liverpool is a fixture so big it deserves its own Blackadder simile. Manchester United v Liverpool: Premier League – live! 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The mafia simile is not a purely stylistic matter for Trump, whose conversation with the Ukrainian president on 25 July reads in parts like a Martin Scorsese screenplay. ‘Very nice people’, Trump said of the mafia. ‘Just don’t owe them money’ 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Here Socrates, the speaker, uses a simile to compare a low wall to a screen that is in front of marionette players. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z You call that comparison a simile, but it is also a symbol. Hello, Hello 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Every facsimile has a simile hidden in it somewhere. Woodstock glorified them. Tarantino barbecued them. In 2019, whither the hippie? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Analogy is relatively rare in poetry next to the usual strategies of comparison, like metaphor, simile, and juxtaposition, and yet it’s central to Scenters-Zapico’s work. The Bittersweet Poetry of “Lima :: Limón” 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z And while that movie is brilliant and Bill Murray is fantastic, the usage of it as metaphor or simile to something like sports detracts from the genius of the storyline. Mariners Sunday mailbag: What’s it like to cover a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in 17 seasons? 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z I do apologize for my simile hitting a carom shot off of your breed and partisan loyalties. Dems increase pressure on Pelosi for impeachment 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z The he reached for a darker simile: it was more like waiting for a jury to deliver its verdict. Mueller report: Trump camp celebrates but danger is not past yet 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z I have measured out my life in contrived starters and sublime main courses; in hours spent trying to avoid overstrained adjectives and overthought similes, and not always succeeding. Jay Rayner: my 20 years as a restaurant critic 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z For a reason, Beto metaphors and similes are found in the nursery. Opinion | Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign is a youthful folly 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z These misbegotten similes have prompted a running gag among commentators who wonder, only half ironically, if the president knows what a dog is. Opinion | What’s up with Trump and dogs? 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z It’s an imperfect simile, he admits: “Mimicry is just a parlor trick. It’s the liquid between these styles that I want them to explore.” Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z But if that simile was valid, then the prevailing tree of 1977, the orthodox image of life’s history, was wrong. The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin’s Tree of Life 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z And at the time of writing it, I wasn’t certain if the simile was stupid or a sign of staring at my computer for too long. Twitter mailbag: Will Felix Hernandez pitch in the postseason if the Mariners make it? Cano to first base? And Magnum P.I.? 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z They have about them a queer surcharge of meaning, as if they were enormous similes for the insoluble predicaments of life. Reading “Lolita” in 1958 1958-11-01T05:00:00Z In a brilliant short essay, Lydia Kiesling solves this problem by piling up metaphors and similes. New Sentences: From Lydia Kiesling’s ‘What Does Being Pregnant Feel Like?’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In an engaging discussion of the brain’s architecture, he offers a mundane simile for consciousness. From meat to mind: the root of consciousness 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z And yes, I do apologize for that simile. The greatest posterization pic, the scariest headline, and the most obscure rule ever invoked - Golf Digest 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile …” Did Dickens invent Christmas? No, but he did reinvent the novel 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z George Orwell’s advice: “Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.” How to Conquer the Admissions Essay 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Over the 65 years of the pop charts, songwriters have described love through similes: like oxygen, like a butterfly, like a heatwave. A history of the love song in 10 tracks 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z This is so strangely funny—a klutzy raptor—that it’s comparable to a great poet dropping a comic simile into a formal design. Steven Spielberg at Seventy 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z For concentrated ingenuity and handcrafted uniqueness, its closest simile, I think, is the Wright brothers’ first biplane, the Flyer, now on display in the National Air and Space Museum, in Washington. The Vertical Farm 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z “With the Red River here, there’s a lot of pollution, and that simile of drugs polluting our bodies is the same way,” he said. Red River Merman finds a whole new world 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Even at her most physically free, she is as immaterial as a simile, “like” the only thing she has ever thought herself to be. Zadie Smith’s Memory Tricks 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z “You’re not going to draw epic similes between The Yale Daily News and the World Series.” At Yale, Theo Epstein Made a Splash as Newspaper’s Sports Editor 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Cue a mystifying simile that only Trump could come up with. Election diary: Trump pledges to #DrainTheSwamp and Clinton turns 69 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z VanDerveer used the simile of ducks, outwardly graceful but paddling like mad under the surface. The Golden State Warriors Play the Beautiful Game 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z An ordinary idiot can take a metaphor literally, but it takes a special kind of idiot to take a simile literally. Divide and Conquer 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z They search too hard for metaphors and similes; you can hear the writer pressing. Bob Dylan, Master of Change 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z He’s right about the power of Leeds’s simile but overimpressed with expertise. Boiled Octopus 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Gabriel deftly describes the actions of Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee turned NSA whistleblower, using a seamless combination of metaphor, simile, and statement of fact. There is a Peter Gabriel song on the end credits of Snowden that explains the plot of Snowden 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Description that is intentionally inapt, unsettling, or excessive is as old as Homer, whose similes, veering off in wild and unexpected tangents, Oswald reproduced brilliantly in “Memorial.” Alice Oswald’s Natural Terrors 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z By the end of the class, he will also be the only one to complete the assignment, which calls for writing a poem using a simile or metaphor in every other line. Coming of age in a city coming apart 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z He and other Essroc employees use a simple simile to explain the difference: “Flour is to bread what cement is to concrete,” he said. Essroc plant, cemented into local economy, hits 150 years 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z On every other page, it seems, there is something remarkable—an immaculate phrase, a boldly modifying adverb, a metaphor or simile that makes a sudden, electric connection between its poles. Cults and Carnage in the Summer of ’69 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z So to explain the historic occasion, I've taken to using similes and metaphors — some of which I've collected here, and that I think might help explain it to the soccer-ignorant Verge reader. How to explain Leicester City's Premier League win to American nerds 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z In my bones I felt the painful aptness of the simile. Saving America from Plastic Bags 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z More often, he makes joyous and strange analogies, stretching his similes into twisted lengths of elastic wit. The Secular Psalmist 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Some of these include metaphors, similes, political slogans, legal arguments, marketing taglines, mathematical formulas, biblical parables, logos, TV ads, euphemisms, proverbs, fables and sports clichés. How Analogies Can Make You Better at Arguments 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z I tire myself with Pumping for apt terms & similes to illustrate my Thoughts.” Talk About the Weather 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Hewitt replied with a simple simile for the man who now leads the Republican field nationally and in early states. Donald Trump Stumbles on Foreign Policy Knowledge 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z All three men dug deep into their sacks of Pavlovian metaphors and similes that would get their constituents banging their reward levers. The GOP’s clash of ridiculous cliches 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Two similes popped to mind as I read the coverage of this deal. Should We Care How Powerful Facebook Is Becoming as a News Source? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Roosevelt then revised mercilessly--shortening sentences, substituting words with fewer syllables, polishing similes--until his own muscular style emerged. FDR: A Monumental Man 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z There is yet no simile or metaphor adequate to describe the moment. Another GOP meltdown bodes ill for 2016 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z All metaphors, similes, analogies, and literary flourishes about blindness and darkness should henceforth cease to be used because I'm saying it's far from dark. Do blind people really experience complete darkness? 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Pick a simile, any simile: a tangled relationship; an amusement park roller coaster; a dripping, greasy bratwurst just before kickoff. For Dortmund, a Dramatic Fall, but Not From Grace 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z The simile family: Vancouver feather duster and candy corn nudibranch. Susan Middleton Explores the Riot of Life in the Oceans in 'Spineless' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z It's a a very nice simile, all the same, but he's more statuesque in the pocket. Ignoring Hard Truths in a Land of Fantasy 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z By that time, his style had been distilled, like—if one may be allowed a high-minded but currently relevant simile—that of Matisse with his color cutouts, into a purist’s economical minimalism. Jean Béliveau, No. 4 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z “Twilight of the Eastern Gods” is comic and waspish, and Kadare, unlike his comrades at the institute, is a true and unforgiving writer, with a nice penchant for simile. Book review: ‘Twilight of the Eastern Gods,’ by Ismail Kadare Indeed, comparing the hapless Carter to whoever currently leads the Democratic Party remains a powerful shibboleth for American conservatives, and in 2011 and 2012 Republicans indulged in this favorite simile without hesitation. Thomas Frank: “We are such losers” 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z It is nearly impossible not to resort to simile in describing the creatures that populate this marine phantasmagoria. Susan Middleton Explores the Riot of Life in the Oceans in 'Spineless' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The Grammy-winning band only stumbles on “Faster Gun,” with its awkward cowboy similes. Review: Little Big Town top-notch on new album 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z And if you want a better simile than that, you’ll have to ask someone who isn’t in the grip of the process it’s alluding to. Software that helps you write faster? What could possibly go wrong… 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Let me back up a moment and offer you a clear simile as an explanation: Inside The Software That Shapes Your Music: Announcing A New Series 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Creative subjects are squeezed out and even essays for English language are rendered unreadable as they are no longer about the flow of ideas but a tedious display of metaphors, similes and personification. The guinea pigs in Gove's model madrasas are our children. We never agreed to this experiment 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z He tossed off French and Latin phrases and startling similes. Roy M. Goodman, New York State Senator for More Than 30 Years, Dies at 84 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, there are hilarious similes and comparisons, whose language constrains me from posting them here. How Late Night Gave The Roots Artistic Freedom (And How It's Paying Off) 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Oswald's version strips back the narrative to focus on Homer's extended similes and the lives of the fallen foot soldiers. Poet Alice Oswald wins Warwick Prize 2013-09-25T00:41:13Z But the simple truth is that scientists themselves constantly make use of analogies, metaphorical devices, and similes. In Defense Of Metaphors In Science Writing 2013-07-09T15:45:03.187Z What will we say with these mathematical similes? Are plants "actually doing maths"? 2013-06-28T23:45:05.753Z There were more than 16,000 similes used in the stories submitted. What can we learn from children's writing? 2013-05-31T00:45:58Z Shakespeare uses the animal for both metaphor and simile. Fears over future of lamb farming as prices fall and imports soar 2013-02-03T00:04:12Z The ABC/Univision simile not only helped to describe the story for its audience, but also helped to frame its potential. What Is a Meta For? 2013-01-07T03:18:00Z The reading world gets pretty divided over whether or not it’s okay to apply metaphors and similes to descriptive science writing. In Defense Of Metaphors In Science Writing 2013-07-09T15:45:03.187Z Of course, similes, even if clever and apt, are verboten in science writing. Science at the (Baseball) Plate 2012-12-13T19:45:00.497Z Girls were more likely to use similes than boys, with older children also using more. What can we learn from children's writing? 2013-05-31T00:45:58Z In the query are metaphors and similes and jokes and puns and riddles. Ray Kurzweil Talks About Robot Jeopardy Champ Watson 2012-11-09T21:20:09Z The flowery literary embellishments – the metaphors, the similes, the idiomatic expressions – are very likely to cause confusion and should seldom be used in writing research papers. Scientists as writers 2012-08-15T19:15:00.177Z Let us make this matter clear to ourselves by a simile. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z His face is wreathed in smiles, and his speech is adorned with Oriental similes that excite poetic thoughts in your mind, if it is capable of such. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z This simile, perhaps, is not a very savoury one, but it possesses a much greater merit, that of being absolutely true—slightly vulgar, but astonishingly correct. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z They discussed loneliness with poetic similes harvested from the sea, upon the horizon of which nothing but a solitary tramp, hull down, was visible. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z Dwell on something much simpler, and infinitely harder: her metaphors, similes — the way she seeks to move the reality of her subjects into your mind. Currents: Narratives With No Need for Translation 2012-04-06T16:00:52Z But the essential point of the exposition is the divisibility of the electric force p and not the simile of substance. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Her long ear-rings swung and rattled corpses hanging in chains: an agreeably literary simile. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z The simile seemed to tickle the fancy of her auditors, who interrupted her by a roar, which soon, however, died away, and she proceeded. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Dorothy thought that this was rather an exaggerated simile, and she could not help adding that she hoped Lily would not fade as quickly. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z My favorite of Ms. Boo’s similes is her description of the well-dressed women who work in Mumbai’s five-star hotels. Currents: Narratives With No Need for Translation 2012-04-06T16:00:52Z Presently her fancy soared; she indulged in Gothic similes. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z Lastly, to be economic and withholding in similes, figures, etc. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Admiral Hope, a useful man to such a ministry, to use a nautical simile, "went stem on like a Nor'-west buffalo" to the Taku forts, and sacrificed a number of brave men needlessly. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z How interesting that he used the simile "like a man." Once lost, M's Michael Saunders finds himself ? and his swing 2012-03-16T03:15:04Z In that little simile are wondrous new possibilities for literature and storytelling of every kind. Currents: Narratives With No Need for Translation 2012-04-06T16:00:52Z It was for such a mouth as hers that the simile of Cupid's bow had been invented. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z Mrs. Gilson retorted, drawing her simile from the articles in her hand. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z I can think of no juster simile than a frog trying to walk upright with half its hind legs amputated and stilts fastened to the stumps. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z It is a true "historical" novel, for it is real—to employ the admirable simile of Mr. Howells. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Indeed, an ancient writer, seeking a simile for a certain very evil smell, could think of none more striking than "that which one smells on the Marina di Chiaia in the evening." Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z I had used the simile before, but not to her, so it did not matter. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z With him—he was a sailor and his similes were nautical—it was a hempen cable which held him to her like a ship to a bower anchor. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z If another simile may be allowed, another no less apt is at hand. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z It is the name usually employed to describe the beauty of the eyebrows, as swallows’ wings are the simile used for eye-lashes. Servian Popular Poetry 2012-03-03T03:00:19.423Z The similes of the Attic masterpieces are taken habitually from those operations with which their naval empire familiarized the Athenian mind. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z But there is another pitfall hidden under that imperfect simile which is continually employed on this subject either by word of mouth or in writing. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z You and your golden-haired mistress presented me with my life last night, and now you 'paint the lily'—gad, that's a good simile, isn't it?" he chuckled to himself—"by giving me your clothes. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z Squire.—“I don’t know; there’s a simile about the waste of corn-seed in hand-sowing, which makes me think he must be a farmer!” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z A goodly portion of these violate all the similes of streams and proceed upstairs at the rate of about 10,300 folk an hour at the busiest times of busy days. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z To vary the simile, the enquiries made of him are not less various than the questions which the editor of a popular print undertakes to answer in his Correspondence column. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z When I imparted this simile to the doctor he implored me not to be sentimental. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z But, as he has introduced two would-be-funny similes, I beg to dispose of them before going into more serious matter. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z I think of Ben Jonson's simile, "They jump farthest who fetch their race largest." Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z It is a simile that I have used time and time again. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z The similes go down well with the crowd. Insight: India's reluctant young emperor, Rahul Gandhi 2012-02-07T06:11:00Z But now let us ask, whether we have in the salts of gold a simile for the diseases of the female sexual organs under the comprehensive name of chronic metritis. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z By using the similes to tell lies, Surl Tesh-echer is about to eat from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. SciFi Book Club: Embassytown And The Garden Of Eden 2012-02-03T15:09:56Z In both Assyria and Babylonia floods were common things, and the devastation they caused naturally gave rise to the simile.95.According to Fried. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z While, to return to our first simile, it, too, is a big machine—humanized. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z "You compared me to a pickpocket not long ago, and I'm not prepared to own that you have chosen a very fortunate simile now." A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z Believe me, Mr. Clavering"--he checked himself, but the name was out of his mouth--"when next you figure on the jack, you will do well to bear in mind my simile. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z There’s something almost biblical about the similes and Language itself, too. SciFi Book Club: Embassytown And The Garden Of Eden 2012-02-03T15:09:56Z Every person, deed, or sentiment calls for illustration and lets loose a flood of similes. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The habit of simile leads one into odd designations of title. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z The simile was confusing, but it made good copy. With Gingrich on the Trail in Florida, Romney Surrogates Are Never Far Behind 2012-01-29T06:05:20Z "Nay," I protested, with what may well have appeared excessive earnestness, "the simile does me some injustice, for it hints of an antagonism betwixt you and me." The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z There’s the question of why, in the latterdays, she doesn’t associate with the similes. SciFi Book Club: Embassytown - Better Than EzRa 2012-01-23T05:09:15Z Everything must be dressed up "with divers quaint and pertinent similes" before it is fit to be introduced to the reader's notice. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Hosts create similes to explain everything they speak. SciFi Book Club: Embassytown - Latterday, Formerly and the Ambassadors 2012-01-17T16:15:34Z Nor would I wish to imply, by the above similes, that I regard a lineal method of arrangement as the correct one. On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera 2012-01-17T03:00:21.933Z Never have I seen a more perfect fac simile of man, without the aid of relief—it is the resurrection and the life. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z I’m sure there’s a simile around that, perhaps far back in their language. SciFi Book Club: Embassytown - Better Than EzRa 2012-01-23T05:09:15Z A second thing about the book is the simile that he uses in comparing the solving of problems with climbing rugged landscapes. Why Is Diversity Vital For Innovation? 2012-01-16T12:42:14Z "They are like Irish children peeping out of a cottage," said Emily, with the family fondness for romantic similes. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Or, if we choose to vary the simile, we may compare the whole system to a cord, upon which beads, of innumerable sizes, patterns, and colours, have been densely strung. On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera 2012-01-17T03:00:21.933Z The simile was not unjust, though certainly ungracious, but his aunt was far too happy to resent it.128 "You sit right still!" she said. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z The simile of the robber and the beggar, in the Sylph's first letter, occurs to my recollection. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z No simile in oriental poetry could exaggerate the regularity and whiteness of her teeth; nor painter's dream of Euphrosyne exceed the arch vivacity of her smile. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Our simile, indeed—be it once for all noted—is a most imperfect one. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z It was all, in the terms of the good old simile, “as plain as a pike-staff.” Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z They didn't wilt, as was usual, but turned brown and faded in the manner of a lovely pallid woman—a simile I had used in Linda Condon. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z The Vedas and Puranas have no better simile than a dream for the whole knowledge of the actual world, which they call the web of Mâyâ, and they use none more frequently. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Ramon did the same; he had very imperfectly understood the application to his case of this simile, derived from the art of fencing, but he abstained from asking any explanation. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Excuse the inaccurate simile; but you know what I mean. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Why should we expect a hereafter?’” and likened man’s sojourn on earth to a traveller’s rest at an inn, whereupon Tennyson turned the simile against him. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z This consolatory simile provoked a roar of laughter from the officer which lasted for some time, while Belinchon remained grave and depressed, as it behooves heroes to be on the eve of battle. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z Therefore, in the arts which employ language as their medium, similes and allegories are of striking effect. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z And the simile of the hare seemed to him so pathetic that he sank sobbing into an arm-chair. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Life comes closest to life, and experience furnishes the best similes. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z We might tell unto you a little simile, if it were not too mean; Look now on an egg, how the white is not mingled with the yolk, and yet it is one egg. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z She had his attention; but he attributed the quickness of her speech and her odd thought and simile only to the general oddness of her ways. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Goethe has taken the simile from me; not I from him. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z “A gastronomic simile,” says Rory; “though maybe neither poetical nor elegant, sure, but truly Saxon.” Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z So they load up with scintillating similes, and pretty parables, and striking stories. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z We next meet the simile of marriage, in Jeremiah ii., Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature 2011-12-13T03:00:25.353Z We often live in a world of parables, metaphors and similes. No Farmer In The Dell -- My Dead Laptop and Customer Disservice 2011-12-12T19:25:12Z This takes place in every trope, every metaphor, simile, parable, and allegory, all of which differ only in the length and completeness of their expression. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z In any event it was a Dantesque touch, emphasized by the character of the call—the wail of a lost soul being as good a simile as any other. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z I wanted to lead up to this simile, that illustration, this theory, that pretty idea. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z Ezekiel is the prophet who eat a little book coarse simile. Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature 2011-12-13T03:00:25.353Z But there is a difference between speaking in similes, and derivation from a principle. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z To illustrate this relationship, I once used a simile which I will now repeat because I know of no better one as substitute. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z These popular motifs are interwoven throughout with the familiar similes of the classic literature. Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z The widow was about to reprimand her for the simile, but as it perfectly expressed what the Justice would look like, she refrained. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z How, too, during the startling, then alarming occurrence of their captivity, her thoughts had flown at once to his propinquity as to a tower of refuge—she liked that simile and it would often recur. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Your simile isn't a good one, even if it fits the case. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z You will recall what I represented to you as the medical opinion concerning the dream, the simile of untrained fingers wandering aimlessly over the keys of the piano. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Karl Marx is author of the saying that "force is the midwife of progress," so you may see that I am not the inventor of this simile of child-birth. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z To use a simile which has been employed in England to describe the difference between Liberals and Radicals, they were “going by the same train, but not going so far.” The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z Some one said that he was like a Settled Religious Faith, and no lesser simile conveys the restful certainty imparted by him. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z I said, like a stag; the simile is a little risqu�e perhaps, as our friend is married; but, never mind! San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z Still working with this simile, we proceed to a further elaboration of our nomenclature. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z This research department, you perceive, is a sort of superstructure, built upon the foundation of our standard wage; and this same simile applies to numerous other forms of intellectual production. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Only we must in that case clearly realize that we are speaking metaphorically, that we are making use of a poetic simile, that we are anthropomorphically attributing human traits to the universe. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z He often used phrases peculiar to our island in the sea, and was given, in conversation at least, to similes which smacked of salt water. Poems 2011-11-14T03:00:17.707Z His consecutive arrangement of similes in brief symmetrical clauses, thus:— "She shone forth like a moon, and swayed like a moringa-bough, And shed fragrance like ambergris, and gazed like a gazelle." A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z They will write simile, foreign, sovereign, therefore, impel, compel, rebel, etc. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z I have been accustomed to portray the profit system under the simile of an iron ring riveted about the body of a baby. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Or, to keep to the earlier simile, the bottomless vessel acquires a bottom with a tap that can be opened and closed. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z I repent me of this simile; it is unjust; it is false. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z He could well remember the search for, and the finding of that particular simile. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z "Hardly," replied the lieutenant, laughing at the simile. Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck 2011-11-04T02:00:18.377Z Bring me the finest simile from the whole range of imaginative writing, and I will show you a single word which conveys a more profound, a more accurate, and a more eloquent analogy. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z The temperature then falls slowly but continually.—A fine simile for all thinkers for whom the sun of the human future is temporarily eclipsed. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z If we look at the phrase a little closer, it will be perceived that the simile is a striking one. The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University 2011-10-20T02:00:26.947Z The drink, qua drink, was mildly unpleasant, resembling aniseed, but it had been worth while having it, merely to have got that perfectly fitting simile. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z When Ossian, in his famous address to the sun, speaks of his yellow hair floating on the eastern clouds, we instantly feel the truth as well as beauty of the simile. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z And what does he mean by an obstructed fullness of wind, or by his elegant simile of a drum? Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z Against Images and Similes.—By images and similes we convince, but we do not prove. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z The old simile of the sun struggling with clouds, and gradually clearing itself as the day wears on, best illustrates my view of this man's accomplishment. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Paine, in using the simile, certainly allows the drugs and phials of his sick-room to enter it to a disagreeable extent, but we must bear in mind that we are looking over his shoulder. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z It is very disturbing, to a struggling poet who has long sought fresher similes for Dawn and all that sort of thing. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z “It’s just like poor King Lear, being all torn apart by the winds,” exclaimed Jennie Smith, though some of her companions could not quite see the simile. Ned Wilding's Disappearance or, The Darewell Chums in the City 2011-10-11T02:01:05.260Z The thinker recognises the full import of this simile. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z The poet drew many of his figures, too, from animal life, as the beasts and the birds in the sustained Virgilian similes in the "Lucifer." Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z I wish Dr. Morris had been of the party, chiefly for the benefit of a little Newmarket man, called Cousins, whose whole ideas, similes, illustrations, etc., were derived from the course and training stable. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z Another simile, even more vivid, evoked the vision of some weirdly constructed, elongated myriopod with eighteen legs. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z "Rather a confusion of similes, my dear O'Loghlin," remarked the Captain with a chuckle. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z That is why science has such a horror of images and similes. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Vondel's similes are more striking than his metaphors; there is a sustained glow in his imagery. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Another animated sketch occurs in the way of simile:—'The interview between Ratcliffe and Sharpitlaw had an aspect different from all these. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z And the simile recurred again and again after it was all over. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z "So you have come to follow the Whirlwind," he said, laughing, as though the simile pleased him. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z A careful examination of the anatomy and physiology of the insect world will show the strict and amazing beauty of this simile. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:34.553Z Or, to change the simile—as a native of Cartmelfell once aptly phrased it: "Big an' beàny as he was, he was nobbut like a splinter blown off a man!" Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z Large design of the Washington National Monument, with the fac simile of the names of the Presidents of the United States and others. History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society 2011-09-27T02:00:16.967Z But however vivid the simile, the dominant thought was hope. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Is there ever any simile to those conditions in human lives, I wonder! In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z There was a laugh at the Miner's simile and then a reflection from another seeker after information, Mrs. Livingston this time. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z The simile of the circle is more than a simile, therefore; it is a fact. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z Think out this simile—rather a good one.... Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show 2011-09-19T02:00:13.900Z Indeed this simile came to mind often when I became more intimate with nestling hoatzins. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z That is also a simile—one more cheerful and happy than the former, praise be to God. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z This, though, would be an utterly wrong simile. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z And the swan, he said, pursuing the simile, had not flown out of their hands in spite of the great wings it had grown. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z I have "sprung over one little mound"—to use Deppe's simile—and got an idea of the impetus that will be necessary to "carry me over the mountain." Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z We went in his car, which, and I use his own simile, was as truly a relic as anything I have mentioned. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z In the elucidation of difficulties he used to make use of many similes and illustrations, which threw a vivid and illuminating light upon the matter in hand. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z There were many herds of them but the simile of "cattle on a thousand hills" did not apply, for there were no hills. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z He is fond of the simile of the pearls and the swine, confident that it is the swine who have thwarted his genius. Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z If one may use a sordid simile in this connexion, her position resembles that of the owner of a beautiful home in possession of which the bailiff has been placed through the indiscretion of another. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z Let me see if I cannot find a simile. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z None of these people have ever been able quite to bowl him out—a simile from your English game of cricket. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z "What is he talking about?" wondered Bontzye, and he heard an impatient voice break in with: "No similes, please!" Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z "A poem," it has been called, "in weather-worn timber and stone," and the simile could hardly be improved upon. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Her employer's trenchant simile as to Mrs. Willoughby's vocal powers could not but recur to Miss Bruce with a sense of its extreme appositeness when the guests entered. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z Feathers make a happy simile; I was lighter than a feather, then—as light as thistledown. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Stanley was unable to think of a simile so he buried his face in his pewter pot. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z This fact is usually exemplified with the simile of two points on the surface of an expanding balloon, moving apart from each other as it is inflated. A Higgs Setback: Did Stephen Hawking Just Win the Most Outrageous Bet in Physics History? 2011-08-24T15:45:06.207Z I have forgotten some of his more striking parallels, but I recollect that each fresh dish called forth a new simile. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z This simile to Nonconformity also holds good a little when we seek to ascertain the ambit of Richardson's popularity. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z "I am not at all sure that I like your simile," said Pauline, tossing her head somewhat. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Where did he find his observations and his similes? Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z Going back to the simile of the balls on an elastic surface, they could fall towards each other’s holes if this elastic surface was accelarating upwards. A Higgs Setback: Did Stephen Hawking Just Win the Most Outrageous Bet in Physics History? 2011-08-24T15:45:06.207Z You observe that I do not use the ancient simile of the grave. Concerning Sally 2011-08-19T02:00:14.430Z I shall attempt to explain my meaning by a familiar simile. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Your similes are remarkable for their aptitude, Helps. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z One should not put down similes, characteristic traits, details, scenes from nature—this must come of itself when it is needed. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z Going back to the simile, if the lift or elevator stopped accelerating, the balls would stop pressing on the elastic surface. A Higgs Setback: Did Stephen Hawking Just Win the Most Outrageous Bet in Physics History? 2011-08-24T15:45:06.207Z She had not shrunk from him because she knew that he was blind, because, to carry out her simile, he could perceive nothing lacking in her raiment. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z His similes and metaphors are often strikingly original and apt; never more so than when they light up with a sudden flash the dark core of some abstruse scientific problem. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z So I should think," said Gerald, laughing; "he compared me to a bird in the fowler's net, and all kinds of ridiculous similes. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z He, partly deliberately, partly instinctively, used in his speech ordinary, average, common expressions, without having recourse either to simile or picturesqueness. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z Forts, he seemed to think, to recall Franklin's simile, could be taken as easily as snuff. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z In Mr. Bulkley's work, which indeed exhausts the whole store of simile and comparison, we perpetually hear the voice of the falls, the myriad voices of nature, the awful voice of God. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z He nodded and smiled to her as though he expected her to follow his crude simile. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z Nor does he ever represent them as wearing crowns, although by some of his similes and metaphors he shows that he knew of garlands. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z His children, yes," he said; "if we may use an earthly simile to describe our relation to Him, that is the word. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z I cannot think of a better simile—turn me, as it were, round his finger; and that is really not an elegant expression. A Fluttered Dovecote 2011-07-29T02:00:21.880Z The sun was commencing like a giant refreshed to renew his daily course—the simile is old, but it is true, nevertheless. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z Illuminating similes abound which do not leave the memory—such fitness is there in them. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z As some members of Her Majesty's Government were known friends of Mazzini and Garibaldi, the aptitude of the simile lives in political memory to this day. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z "I daresay, but I don't admit the simile; a Jew is as good a man as you or I." For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z A lovely figure; our forefathers would have compared her to a rose-tree, but then our forefathers were not strong in similes. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z Or to use another simile: the creeds are the grammar of religion, they are to religion what grammar is to speech. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z "And to carry your simile further--if you believe that the fruit so greatly desired has been kept for you alone--will it not please you to possess what others long for in vain?" On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Not a pleasant simile, but it is not mine. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z The simile pleased the old gentleman much; he stroked his moustache thoughtfully. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z The same simile almost invariably comes to the lips of every person who sees this phenomenon for the first time—"It looks like a peeled orange." Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z For a simile, we mortals make our life-voyage each in his cabin. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z “There’s no doubt about it,” chuckled the little doctor to himself, “she’s as jealous as Othello, and watches me like an—an—an—well—say eagle,” he said, quite at a loss for a simile. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z No one, not even a fond father, would have hit upon such a simile for her now. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z To resort to an overused drug simile, it looks like Lego on acid. The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far) ? part one 2011-07-12T06:03:12Z The mention of Mallock reminded me of some of his delectable similes: "Miss Drake dropped a short curtsey, which resembled the collapse of a concertina." A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z Returning to the original simile, the Ooley-cow was willing to be milked for golf balls and luncheons and caddie hire. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z "I think you might find a prettier simile, Emmeline," replied Mrs. Hamilton, smiling, as she granted her request, by throwing the chain round Ellen's neck, and fastening the bracelets on her wrists. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z It would be difficult to conceive a more inappropriate simile for the lustful looks in Tarquin's eyes than "the subtle shining secrecies, writ in the glassie margents of such books." The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z For Coleridge's simile of "A painted ship upon a painted ocean" is only a poet's licence, and grates upon a seaman as the sole picture in that wonderful work which is not literally true. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z It was as though the leading country gentleman of a county in Britain should steal a donkey off a common, if they would pardon him the vulgarity of the simile. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z He was merely reproducing a time-honoured and highly colloquial simile, the unconscious variation of which made Philip laugh. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z “By Jove, Upward, this man is as different a type to the ruffians who came for me last night as the proverbial chalk and cheese simile,” remarked Campian, as they started for the shooting place. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z The young Irishman, smiling at the crude simile of his companion, made no reply. The Yellow Chief 2011-07-05T02:00:27.013Z It is a conventional use supposed to make for beauty which The Rehearsal ridicules in the following scene, for at nearly all crises the Heroic Drama rested on a simile for its strongest effect. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Of this horse Mohammed could say, "God made him of a condensation of the southwest wind"; the consummate simile for fleetness and mildness. The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend 2011-07-02T02:00:10.773Z But the protestations and exclamations by which the simile might have been proved good, were broken off by the approach of a maid-servant from the house, who said that Miss Betsy was waiting for them. The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:16.980Z His use of similes in describing action is worthy of note. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z Then, to the ruin of the simile, the artillery-schools, the aviation-fields, and the base hospitals made excrescences on the handle, so that an apter symbol would be a large and unshapely string of beads. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z Remember for a moment His everyday similes and parables: the lighting of a candle, the seeking of a piece of lost silver, the search for the lost sheep. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z As we suggest elsewhere, the nearest simile is that of the short-circuiting of a dynamo. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z A mere 16 lines, “The City” is, like all of Cavafy’s work, largely devoid of metaphors, similes or any other poetic flourishes. New York Story: If You Can?t Make It Here, Watch Out! 2011-06-18T00:36:35Z His similes are few—in this connection—and are so chosen that they add to the vividness of the whole impression. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z "As if it had been dead and was coming to life again!" was her simile. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z In a simile familiar to spiritual writers of all ages, Ruysbroeck compares life to a ladder, or stairway of seven steps, leading up to perfection and union with God. A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 2011-06-14T02:00:22.820Z The shield and helmet of Diomed, with the accompanying simile, in the opening of the third book; and the prodigious description of Neptune’s passage to the Argive ships, in the thirteenth book:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z "Precisely," he answered, in a tone of appreciation at my simile; "but the pretty girl's love-letters are being opened." A Diplomatic Woman 2011-06-10T02:00:18.297Z That Chaucer is witty is undeniable, but his wit shows itself chiefly in sly comments and parentheses, or in the adroit use of an unexpected simile. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z The arguments were given with plain directness without elegance of diction; and they were brought home by matter-of-fact similes from every-day life or commercial experience. Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 2011-06-09T02:00:21.460Z The poets knew all about fishing, for it appears in a simile, and yet in no case does fish, the great delicacy of Attic days, appear upon a Homeric table. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z He was fond of imagery, the most trifling similes appeared to please him. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He expands the same image, and loses all likeness in a prolix simile, for his readers were not so impatient as ourselves. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It is only when one has seen it grow like this that one can appreciate the full force of the old Bible simile. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z The allegorical critics regarded the plot, or fable,—to use a simile so often found in Renaissance criticism—as a mere sweet and pleasant covering for the wholesome but bitter pill of moral doctrine. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Such similes, at least, Roland's fancy easily found for them in abundance. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z He rarely composes any verse without a flower or a bird being mentioned in it; all his similes are ornithological or botanical, and by them he expresses the tenderest emotions of his heart. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Still another, evidently a bit of a china connoisseur himself, applied the fancy porcelain simile with far more searching analysis. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z The simile failed him; he looked at my lady. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z As Firmian did not speak, but remained sunk in sadder similes, Henry, too, held his peace. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z "But," said the girl, laughing, "the simile is poor; you do not see the cicada go back from the happy traveler stage and become a cynic." Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z It is the name usually employed to describe the beauty of the eyebrows, as swallows' wings are the simile used for eyelashes. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z Oliver?" she exclaimed, suddenly making up her mind to rush her fence—it was a simile which still often occurred to her—"Oliver, my dear, I want to tell you something. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z For one must now be very glad if only four or five new similes are sent to the Easter fair, and if at Michaelmas only a few flowers, which are novelties, are offered for sale. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z This, then, is what I have to postulate by means of similes. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z This distinction is best expressed in the old simile of the window and the wall. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z The gospel is the allegorical exposition of this system; the simile of the potter is its summary.” A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z For a shabby simile I should have easily recollected it, but not for a useful cure. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z The worldly can speak of it in a worldly way only; they use worldly similes and worldly words. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z The following remarks may be thrown into the form of a series of postulates, which are, at the same time, so many similes. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z This was new to him too, and instantly he saw the aptness of Harry's simile. The Rotifers 2011-04-18T02:00:10.237Z I am sorely done up,—only able to crawl with a stick and a friendly arm, and so weak that the Irishwoman's simile of a 'sheet of wet paper' is my only parallel. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z But the Idealist, to use an exquisite simile of Mr. Henry James' in "The Middle Years," is the man who visits "the great glazed tank of art." Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z I’m afraid Santa Marta will be much more like the other place before the day is through, and it is not a very appropriate simile, Tony. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z The Abbot's return put a stop to further similes. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z His words were great and bold; and he himself wondered at them, for they were almost heretical, and he had never read such a simile in any of the churchfathers before. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z Yet that don’t seem an altogether proper simile, it is so soft. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z But the mass of these sonnets and odes and madrigals is extraordinarily insipid and cold, the similes are forced and grotesque, and everywhere pedantry takes the place of passion. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Il tradimento, il traditore, the kiss of Judas, the simile of the fox, recur with fatal resonance through all the Cantos of the poem. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z That simile barely makes sense, but finding the proper metaphor would take actual thought and time that I just don’t have. Why Benjamin Franklin Was More Productive Than I Am 2011-04-05T16:48:04Z But I can pardon the simile, coming, as I see it does, from certain home convictions. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z His Hellenisms are frequent—his images, similes, metaphors, and addresses to himself, are all Greek; and even in the versification of his odes we see visible traces of their origin. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The works of Du Bartas are stuffed full with these strained and fantastic similes, his surface sparkles with the glitter of tinsel and pinchbeck. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z For ornaments he cared but little, nor did he wait to elaborate similes. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z I lie! this is in the Venus and Adonis: the simile brought it to my Mind. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z If a critical ear might cavil at the incompleteness or inaptitude of his similes, to the warm imagination and excited fancy of the Irish peasant they had no such blemishes. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z Few passages in Latin poetry have been more frequently imitated, and none more deservedly, than the above-quoted verses of Catullus, who certainly excels almost all other writers, in the beauty and propriety of his similes. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Of course, among such members there were many accidental repetitions of the same character, but there were also instances of fac similes, which were intentional. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z This simile is characteristic both of Lorenzo's love for familiar illustration, and also of the age that dawned on Michelangelo's genius. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z I don’t feel inclined to write any more at present for I feel rather muzzy—you must be content with this fac simile of the rough plan of Aunt Dinah’s Counterpane. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z This poetic simile popped out unawares; but Violet heard the kindly tone rather than the words. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z The whole poem, indeed, is full of many beautiful and appropriate similes. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z To the latter city, as a seaport, the simile may be more appropriate, though the former is equally entitled to a share in its credit. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z There was something almost unearthly in the laugh that accompanied these last words—a strange simile—a strange man! Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z The quaint houses, red and white, with terraced roofs, and embowered amid verdant groves, recalled the simile of the poet who likened Granada to “a silver vase full of hyacinths and emeralds.” With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Metaphor the strength of poetry; simile its weakness. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z It is not poetic to go to Apothecaries' Hall for similes. The Great Return 2011-03-20T02:00:35.837Z Lady Bell had hit upon a happy simile; she looked like some beautiful bird, half stupefied by the strange life moving around her. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z On second thoughts, the simile is both trite and untrue: the sword had already fallen; it could wound me no more. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z He goes on his way like a steady old coach, while I am like a bicycle,”—Vibert laughed to himself as the simile occurred to his fancy. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z The simile of "a string of pearls" of precisely similar size and shape has often been used in describing their fluency and clearness of outline. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z It reverses Byron's simile, 'All green and wildly fresh without,' etc., etc. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z This second excerpt, moreover, suggests another of the main characteristics of Euphuism, the incessant use, for purposes of ornament, of similes taken from fabulous records of zoology, or relating to mythical birds, fishes or minerals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The barrage went ahead and sat down—as one of the officers put it, though the sitting down of a barrage is a queer simile for that monstrous eruption of explosive force. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z Susan was helping herself to butter, which, perhaps, supplied her with the simile of which she made use. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z Now he felt, to change the simile as he changed it himself, as if he had been thrown out of the nest before having learnt to fly. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z People also said at that time that computers would never master the subtleties of language, metaphors, irony, puns, similes. Charlie Rose Talks to Ray Kurzweil 2011-03-03T22:00:00Z That lady was considered most proficient in euphuism who could keep up longest these chains of similes taken out of fabulous natural history. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The simile is a splendid one, and it agrees wonderfully with the more subdued representations of his early years given by Goethe himself in his Autobiography. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z To make the topography clearer a somewhat prosaic and domestic simile may be employed. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z The simile is from the fable of the monkey using the cat's paw to take his chestnuts out of the fire. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z Thus, if I may be allowed a simile, the angler chooses not to see the fish he angles for, until it is fairly caught.” Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z And these images again are rhetorical; they are not similes which can only be understood in their totality by the roundabout way of reflection; they are glaring flashes of lightning. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Then follows that lovely simile of doves floating to call, and Francesca’s recognition of Dante with the words: O animal grazioso e benigno! who is sure to have pity on her hapless doom. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z Why, my dear sir, the people here care no more for the early fathers of the Church than—than I do,” he added, at a loss for a simile. The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z M. Arnold has pointed out that she occurs in a weak passage of Macbeth.346 “Medical and surgical similes occur in both.” Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Bruce paused in his reflections to wonder at himself over the simile—for lynx were no especial acquaintances of his. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z You're a little mixed in your similes, my friend," the Marquis remarked, "because, you know, if those things happen—to me, I shall be the one person who doesn't hear them. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z His poems abound in appropriate, felicitous, and original similes. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z The younger children are puzzled and confused by the details of a Homeric simile. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z And in The Picture286 we find an elaborate simile, in which soldiers are said to be the surgeons of the State. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z "A profane simile!" the Assessor declared, with a shrug, swallowing his irritation in a glass of punch. The Eichhofs A Romance 2011-02-19T03:01:37.327Z To use a lady’s simile, a skein of thread is a simple thing to unwind when fresh from the weaver’s hands; but, when once entangled, it requires time and patience to unravel it. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z She grew up, to use a trite simile, like a violet in the shade. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Simile is more baffling; it is easier to go immediately and intuitively to the meaning of a metaphor than to carry in the mind the two expressed sides of the simile. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z It did not merely provide Falstaff with a pattern for mock-moral diction and vegetable similes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z He then quotes one of Johnson's fruitier similes. Tiger Woods and his not-so-great expectorations 2011-02-18T00:06:00Z To-day the novelist or dramatist introduces his metaphor or simile occasionally or naturally, as an ornamental touch to convey his meaning better. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Because when I saw you, life's meaning broke out suddenly—like a star—and that's another stale simile. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z But no elementary child will make a Homeric, or indeed any simile, except as a tour de force. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z But the ordering and presentment, with their overture, their interpolated episodes or narratives, their journeys between Olympus, Earth and hell, invocations, set similes, battles and divine thunderbolts, are those of the classical epic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z This simile was put forth in such a humorous manner as to cause much laughter. The Nation Behind Prison Bars 2011-02-10T03:00:55.530Z Yet the similes of the epic poets are poetry because they belong to the literature of ecstasy. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z They are absolutely unpretentious, prevailingly conversational in tone, abounding in homely similes and colloquialisms, pithy anecdotes, familiar proverbs, and references to current people and events which make up the popular gossip of the day. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z Doubtless the simile is a beautiful one, but its immediate bearing upon our needs was not too grossly evident. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z |
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