23 Metaphors for utterance

But Francis Thompson's most entirely mystical utterance is the famous OdeThe Hound of Heavenwhere he pictures with a terrible vividness and in phrase of haunting music the old mystic idea of the Love chase.

The utterance was an assertion rather than an inquiry.

Less abstract, more nearly an utterance of personal feeling, was Joseph Warton's Enthusiast, or the Lover of Nature, historically a remarkable poem, which, through its expression of the author's tastes and preferences, indicated briefly some of the most important touchstones of the sentimentalism (videlicet, "romanticism") of the future.

We should feel that his utterances were not echoes.

The utterance is a result, and therefore a sign, of life; but there may be life without any such sign.

The duke often accompanied him in his wanderings through the town, sometimes laughing loudly at the fool's jests, sometimes listening with earnest attention, as though his utterances were oracles.

In his ignoring of the nature and the will of God as the basis of an argument in this matter, and in his arbitrary and unauthorized definition of a lie (with its inclusion of the claim that the deliberate utterance of a statement known to be false, for the express purpose of deceiving the one to whom it is spoken, is not necessarily and inevitably a lie), Rothe stands quite pre-eminent.

He ruled by wisdom, eloquence, and sanctity; and as he was an oracle, his utterances became a law.

Hence the highest utterance is a perpetual marrying of thought with things, as in poetry,a lifting up of the actual and a bringing down of the ideal,giving a soul to the one and a body to the other.

And in a poem, as in all else, the body must be formed according to the law of the inner life; the utterance must be the expression, the outward and visible antetype of the spirit which animates it.

Nor was the public rancor at all softened by the knowledge that the last utterances of the illustrious poet and learned scholar had been the words of a penitent Christian.

If a man of fashion wished to protest against some solecism in another man of fashion, his utterance would be a mere string of set phrases, as lifeless as a string of dead fish.

The most genuine utterance of Surrey was his poem written while imprisoned in Windsora cage where so many a song-bird has grown vocal.

His utterance was a sustained declamation.

[Footnote 19: This utterance has since become a common theme for composition exercises in German schools.]

The most pure utterance of this feeling is perhaps Schiller's "Gods of Greece," where the loss of the Olympians is distinctly deplored, because it has unpeopled, not heaven, but earth.

Utterance Is the art or act of vocal expression.

The utterance of the first lines was a martyrdom for her.

He said that on her way home from church a girl's thoughts are of necessity solemn, and her utterances are therefore, the solemn truth.

Yet more remarkable is the fact that his utterances, his logia, if we may use the term, some few of which are certainly genuine, increase from year to year and form a large collection which is critically sifted and expounded.

These final utterances of Solomon are not dogmas nor speculations, they are experiences,the experiences of one of the most favored mortals who has lived upon our earth, and one of the wisest.

"The child's first utterance is force," says Froebel, and his first discovery is the resistance of matter, when he "pushes with his feet against what resists them."

His last utterance was, doubtless, the order for the infantry to advance, and was given a moment before he received the fatal bullet.

23 Metaphors for  utterance