20 Metaphors for shape

Its shape is the most unmeaning of shapes, its height and thickness just neutralising each other; its colour is the most repulsive of coloursa fat and soulless red, a red without a touch of blood or fire, like the scarlet of dead men's sins.

I think that the plume-shape is the prettiest and most odd-looking of all the elms.

Darker and darker grew the margin of the paper until from slaty grey it had turned to black; and still the shape of the mummy, now in strong relief, remained an elongated patch of bald white.

And all that heaven thought, the marsh thought too; for the blue of the marsh was as the blue of heaven, and the great cloud shapes in heaven became the shapes in the marsh, and through each ran momentary rivers of purple, errant between banks of gold.

The typical cell is usually globular in form, other shapes being the result of pressure or of similar modifying influences.

The skin was dark and discolouredthe pointed beard perfectthe shape of the face was a long ovalmany of the teeth remainedthe hair was thick at the back of the head, and in appearance nearly blackthat of the beard was of a redder brown.

The fan shape is undoubtedly the best way of training the branches, as it allows a ready means of tucking small yew branches between them to protect the buds from the cold.

There was plenty of wood, and the shape of the draw in which they were located was a protection from the cold wind.

and the longer one at the bottom like a mouthand then the shape of the whole is oval.

That shape over there must be a fool's cap, one mass of sheeny tints inside.

The natural shape of the human body, for example, is a sensuous concrete object, which is perfectly adequate to represent the spiritual in its concreteness; the view should therefore be abandoned that an existing object from the external world is accidentally chosen by art to express a spiritual idea.

The most pleasing shape of roof, other things being equal, is the pyramidal or hipped, inclining from all sides towards the centre.

Another strange shape is the vase, which seems to rest on the roots that stand out above the ground.

The shapes which are found beneath are the crafty beings that thrive in darkness, and the weaker organisms kept helpless by it.

We are often heard to say that beauty consists chiefly, if not entirely, in expression, that it is a transfiguration from within rather than a gracious condition of the surface, that the shape of a nose is no matter, and that a beautifully rounded chin or a fine throat has nothing to do with itindeed, is rather in the way than otherwise.

In addition to this difficulty, the shape of the lake was another reason why the winds rarely blow in the same direction over the whole of its surface at the same time.

It seemed as if these shapes were gods who had no mercy, or demons who were full of malevolence.

The shape of the room was a geometrical problem.

Its shape is fusiform, the greatest height, which is at the ventrals, and which exceeds twice the thickness, being contained exactly four times in the total length, caudal included.

The only shape that came to life as we approached the main entrance of the mosque was the man who takes care of the slippers for a small fee.

20 Metaphors for  shape