6 Metaphors for stimulus

We contend that the chief stimulus is not the desire for the wealth itself; but for the applause and position which the wealth brings.

But the greatest stimulus for these commercial activities was foreign, European trade.

In modern politics the emotional stimulus which reaches us through the newspapers is generally 'pure,' but 'second hand,' and therefore is both facile and transient.

Nearly all the men who aided in promoting my wishes have passed away; and the only stimulus that now remains to revisit the home of my youth is the wish to wander about there with you, and perhaps two or three other of my American friends.

His favourite stimulus was snuff, and his favourite amusement angling.

At Kishangarh, a small State midway between Ajmer and Jaipur, a series of intensely poetic paintings were produced between the years 1750 and 1760the prime stimulus being the delight of Raja Sawant Singh in Krishna's romance.

6 Metaphors for  stimulus