1.   If anything, Degas was interested in ballet as a visual metaphor for the equally grueling labor of painting.

2.   In contrast, the visual metaphor comes on too strong.

3.   In these scenes, if nothing else, Wenders locates the perfect visual metaphor for the entire gummed-up project.

4.   Perhaps even more disturbing is the thought that these fences stand as a visual metaphor for how New York City now operates.

5.   The restless, dynamic energy of the diagonal is a visual metaphor for a society on the move.

6.   This makes a fantastic visual metaphor for the economic and developmental injustice that plagues the Third World.

7.   Using its real-world visual metaphor of a desktop, the Mac made it easy for people to understand what was going on inside their computers.

8.   Fire is the underlying visual metaphor here, and it intensifies the destructive quality of misdirected human passions.

9.   The jury was impressed by the visual metaphors used to carry on the plot.