12 Metaphors for exhibitions

A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with concomitants that increase or diminish its effect.

On the contrary, all the exhibitions I have seen have been complete failures in what was attempted or expected, or they have proved to be deceptions and tricks of jugglery.

Her first exhibitions at the Royal Academy, London, were miniatures and flower pieces.

Now an exhibition of this feeling on a football field would be a disgrace to the school.

The exhibition witnessed by Chowles and Judith was a rehearsal of the masque intended to be represented in the cathedral on the following night.

Being staged during the period of favorable weather, and mostly on Saturday afternoon; these physical exhibitions were the scenes of much controversial conflict, gambling, excessive inebriation and hilarity.

In America it seemed to lie neglected, and only thought to be an employment suited to a lower class of people; but here it is the constant subject of conversation, and the exhibitions of the several painters are fashionable resorts.

That the exhibition was a success we learn from the following account in the "Journal of Commerce" of January 29, 1838: "THE TELEGRAPH.We did not witness the operation of Professor Morse's Electro-Magnetic Telegraph on Wednesday last, but we learn that the numerous company of scientific persons who were present pronounced it entirely successful.

There was no afternoon promenade where we could, as the Russians say, "show ourselves and see the people"; nor would an exhibition of our tattered and weather-stained garments on a public promenade have been quite the proper thing, had it been possible.

Violence was an exhibition of anger and any such exhibition was dissipation of valuable energy.

The unattractive exhibition 61, is a familiar sight in the social world.

There was always present the feeling that any exhibition of undue curiosity on her part would be a disappointment to her employer.

12 Metaphors for  exhibitions