21 Metaphors for appeals

" An appeal of this character was the most effective that could possibly be addressed to Washington, but in consenting he grumbled over the hardship of having to keep in active service at his time of life after already having served for so long a time.

Her constant appeal to the law had been the principal cause of her present troubles.

An appeal to the Tehsildhar was no use, as that dignitary had gone to Atchibal in the Court train.

The appeal of the kneeling bondman, "Am I not a man and a brother," must here have met with a prompt and powerful response.

As they walked on, her genuine delight in the autumnal nature, the real imaginative appeal it had for her, was another surprise.

As for the appeal of the people, to whom Louis Napoleon affects to submit his claims, never was a more odious mockery offered to a nation.

An appeal from the manager to the public was his unquestioned privilege; but not contented with seeking redress by these means, he threatened Garrick with a new Dunciad.

"Posterity will see me righted," cries some poor victim of human wrong, as he goes down into the darkness; but of all appeals, the appeal to posterity is the most hopeless.

It was believed then, it has often been repeated since, that the king's refusal originated in the wilfulness and obstinacy of his temper; and that his repeated appeals to his conscience were mere pretexts to disguise his design of replunging the nation into the horrors from which it had so recently emerged.

Generally, the meaning that we find in such productions, the appeal that they make to the understanding or feelings, is as great a source of interest to us as their intrinsic beauty.

The appeal was, however, fruitless; the Prince considering himself aggrieved not only by the elevation of an individual to whom he justly attributed his imprisonment in the Bastille, but also by the increased power of Marie de Medicis, and he consequently coldly returned his thanks for the desire evinced by his royal kinsman to see him once more near his person, but declared his intention of remaining in his government.

Truth in this form, supported by authority, appeals first of all to those elements in the human constitution which are strictly metaphysical, that is to say, to the need man feels of a theory in regard to the riddle of existence which forces itself upon his notice, a need arising from the consciousness that behind the physical in the world there is a metaphysical, something permanent as the foundation of constant change.

This appeal is not the clamour of faction, artfully raised to disturb the operation of government, violent for a while, and soon to be appeased.

This appeal to force is the misdeed of an imperfect world.

If so, Baxter's appeal to this usage is a gross sophism, a mere pun. Ib.

The tabernacle apart, the main appeal of Or San Michele is the statuary and stone-work of the exterior; for here we find the early masters at their best.

It must not only be conscious that in momentous questions which influence definitely the entire development of a nation, the appeal to arms is a sacred right of the State, but it must keep this conviction fresh in the national consciousness.

The appeal here mentioned was a suit for a penalty in which the plaintiff was a relation who had suffered through a murder or manslaughter.

If so, Baxter's appeal to this usage is a gross sophism, a mere pun. Ib.

In other words, the appeal of Mrs. Blatch is essentially an appeal for service.

It proves that an appeal to reason is not always the way to manage the working man.

21 Metaphors for  appeals