14 Metaphors for displays

This stupendous display of nature's handiwork will be to me "a joy forever."

He was an obstinate, dull man; and if this burlesque of the conduct of the senators when the Gauls took Rome was really enacted, the theatrical display must have been cold comfort for those of his party on whom his incapacity brought ruin.

This fantastic display was evidently a rude attempt to follow the example set them by the white aristocracy.

I presume, however, that the display is a compliment.

The electrical display at night was a triumph of engineering skill and architectural arrangement.

The displays are no longer contests of laborious industry but of vision, and faith.

A too restless display of talent, a too undisguised statement of all that can be said for and against a question, is perhaps the great fault that is to be attributed to him.

This display was but scant provision for a population of 7,000.

Much display of jewellery is no proof of good taste.

For to the thinkin' mind, the countless display of articles, the marvels and magnificence of this Exposition is not its main value, but its educational worth, its power to inspire and teach the people of the world better ways of living and working, how to make the most and best of life for themselves and others.

The only thing that indicates an election is the presence of a larger number of people than usual; and the only display you can see is that little bit of a flag, about 18 inches square, stuck on the top of a cab, having on the word "Democracy!"

In Britain a display of black such as is an everyday sight at Versailles is undreamt of, and one saw more crape veils in a day in Versailles than in London in a week.

As Dr Harington's sprightly epigram suggests, this portentous display of mortality is not an inspiring study for visitors who come to Bath to take "the cure," "These walls, adorned with monument and bust, Show how Bath waters serve to lay the dust.

His new clothes were taken from him and he was given the identical old suit which he had so congratulated himself upon leaving off at Mr. Brownlow's, and the accidental display of which to Fagin, by the Jew who purchased them, had been the first clue to Oliver's whereabouts.

14 Metaphors for  displays