60 Metaphors for processes

His health was brought to such perfection, that its very processes were a subtle joy, which sharpened the mind and senses.

To feel the sensation of resting, that weariness is leaving you, and that the process of recuperation is an active, living agency, going on all through the system, while the natural love of repose is being gratified as an independent emotion, constitute the very perfection of mere animal enjoyment.

This kinetic process was a constant device of the freakish impulse that he called his devil.

This store is the atmosphere, & the process by which the fertilizing substance may be obtained is vegetation.

His intellectual processes are automatichis train of thought can never get off the track.

The whole process of cultivation and field treatment is hard, heavy work, most of it very hard work.

In New England the process of naming has been just the reverse; as in Hartford County, Conn., or Worcester County, Mass., which have taken their names from the shire towns.

Thus the nerve cells and nerve fibers are related, in that the process of one is the axis cylinder and essential part of the other.

May not this process be the first step towards the formation of our garden polyanthus?

But this process of mental chromolithography, though it is sometimes a good way of learning a science, is not a way of using it; and Bagehot gives no indication how his complex picture of man, formed from successive layers of abstraction, is to be actually employed in forecasting economic results.

Every process of nature and life is a continuous sequence of cause and effect.

Thus far the process is any thing but agreeable.

The continuous process was rather the outcome of rapidly changing conditions and personal exigencies than of any set plan or purpose.

That process is the simple action of physical and spiritual reproduction of the slaves.

The first process is the extraction of the juice that carries the sugar.

Its main process is the detection of corresponding customs, opinions, laws, beliefs, among different communities, and a grouping of them into general classes with reference to some one common feature.

Nearly five years later Dr. Vogel announced that, after eleven years of investigation, he had at last realized a successful process of this character, and that this new process of his was the "solution of a problem that had long been encompassed with difficulty."

Thus it happened that self-sacrifice assumed rank in course of time as a specifically feminine virtue; so much so that the German metaphysician Fichte could declare that "the woman's life should disappear in the man's without a remnant," and that this process is love.

The estimate for the quantity of sugar from these pilones after this process is about one hundred pounds; it depends upon the care taken in the process.

Still, not my own reading of him only, but Mr. Haldane's profoundly interesting interpretations given in his Gifford Lectures, make the impression that Hegel's eternal process is always a projection of subject as object and re-integration of the two.

As a specimen of the labor that sometimes goes to make an effective style, the process is worth recording.

The process is a singular illustration of the theory of a majority-government.

The process we are engaged in intellectually is the reading of the obscure signals of our nerves into a world of reality, by means of intuitions derived from the inner experience.

The process of his mental development is the chief aim of the book.

It is based, like every other art, on certain truths, general and special, principles and facts; its process, like that of every other art, is the Imagination, the creative principle of genius, using these truths as its rules and its materials, working by them and upon them, applying and idealizing them.

60 Metaphors for  processes