21.   The bridge was a perfect metaphor for the characters getting from here to there.

22.   The heat withered nearby trees, a perfect metaphor for human desecration of nature.

23.   The mulligan may be the perfect metaphor for his presidency.

24.   The perfect metaphor for the old Cardinals.

25.   The principle of animism, of an object infused with meaning beyond its material self, becomes the principle of metaphor, and puppets are perfect metaphor.

26.   The pantomime was a perfect metaphor.

27.   The perfect metaphor for the youthful Wildcats.

28.   There was frost on the grass outside Stormont Castle where the meetings were held, and it provided the perfect metaphor for current relations between loyalists and the British.

29.   What a perfect metaphor for this fractured period.

30.   When Charles Barkley was thrown into the pool Saturday night, it was the perfect metaphor for an incredible weekend.