The scene was an appropriate metaphor for this more mellow weekend.

An appropriate metaphor would be an extremely long shopping list.

The fall from Eden seems to be an appropriate metaphor for some of the major biological events in recent human evolution.

His syntax may even be an appropriate metaphor for his career.

However, after seven business trips and one personal visit, I note that appropriate metaphors are still lacking.

(I leave it to you to supply the appropriate sexual metaphor).

There's no such shot in the movie, but it's an appropriate visual metaphor.

It recognizes and acknowledges Mark 5:9 as an appropriate metaphor for its state of existence.

In that respect, Paul reflected, the appropriate metaphor was a corporation bus.

An appropriate metaphor for it might be that of a ruined city.