117 Metaphors for movement

Her movements were large, majestic, beautiful, yet dainty and feminine.

The militant trade union movement of today, heading towards a broad People's Front, is the direct lineal descendant of the great strike movement of the 1886 Chicago martyrs.

For example the Boy-Scout movement and the Sons of India are both national organisations, but branches of them should be formed in the separate schools.

Movement is life, and the stoppage of movement is death, and the movement of every people flows along its highways.

The Salvation Army movement is a revival.

But anti-opium movements have been entirely in the hands of missionaries, religious and moral agitators in England and elsewhere outside of India, and politicians who have denounced the policy of the government to obtain votes against the party that happened to be in power.

The democratic movement of the last eighty years, be it a "finality," or only a phase of progress towards a more perfect state, is the grand historical fact of modern times, and Paine's name is intimately connected with it.

The other movement was the revolution in Spain's colonies in the Western Hemisphere, a movement that cost Spain all of its possessions in that area, with the exception of Cuba and Porto Rico.

The movement of the plantar cushion will now be downwards as well as backwards; and, seeing that it is attached to the inner aspect of each lateral cartilage, we shall expect these latter, by the downward movement of the plantar cushion, to be drawn inwards.

The Government and the educated Indians may think that the Khilafat movement is merely a passing phase.

Every movement of the kind was for Caesar a provocation, a temptation, almost an obligation to conquest.

Movement by water was a natural.

This movement would be, in one sense, sideways, the circle of light gradually lessening around the north pole, and extending towards the south, as the globe proceeded east and north, diminishing the length of the days in the northern hemisphere, and increasing them in the southern.

"The reform movement was the child of Catholic agitation; the anti-corn law league that of the triumph of reform."

But a little quick, impatient movement of the hand was his only reply.

The only daylight movement attempted would have been the cautious filling of the trenches, the pouring in of the long gray-coated lines along the communication trenches, all keeping well down and under cover.

"This movement," continued Mr. Gandhi, "is an endeavour to purge the present Government of selfishness and greed which determine almost every one of their activities.

How far these two movements in capital and in labour react on one another for peace or for strife is a delicate and difficult question.

The King wished to regain Paris by negotiation; all his movements were dilatory.

In taking Cyprus the movement is not Mediterranean; it is Indian.

Marlowe might have written the lines in which Apollo promises to take her to a home above the world, where movement is ecstasy and repose is thrilling.

When I saw Tolstoy during the Russian revolution of 1905 he said to me: "The present movement in Russia is not a riot; it is not even a revolution; it is the end of an age.

Even the mosquitoes were still, and the only movement was the hovering of giant hornets, attracted by the smell of the wine.

The movement was opportune.

That this movement was a surprise to Lee, as has been supposed by some persons, is a mistake.

117 Metaphors for  movement