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  • But many of Napoleon's greatest battles lasted only a day and were never to be fought again.... As such, the more apt analogy might be that of Gorsky at the Bolshoi.†   (source)
  • We'd been dating for only a few months when she stumbled upon an analogy that described me perfectly.†   (source)
  • Bad analogy.†   (source)
  • So in this analogy, I'm the wood?†   (source)
  • Hills wasn't a proper analogy—and some other kid argued that Shaker Heights was more to Cleveland what Lake Forest was to Chicago ... and so forth.†   (source)
  • My father, softened by the analogy, sighed.†   (source)
  • Speaking of analogies.†   (source)
  • It's not a perfect analogy, because there's no place where I end and he begins.†   (source)
  • The analogy, however, seems to falter when one considers that, while there were no witches then, there are Communists and capitalists now, and in each camp there is certain proof that spies of each side are at work undermining the other.†   (source)
  • Tighter 'n a stink-worm's —' 'Very well, Captain,' interrupted Gudgeon hurriedly, before the sprite could complete his graphic analogy.†   (source)
  • And, um, I know this sounds weird —" in fact, it was a completely lunatic analogy, crackpot, insane, but I didn't know any other way to work around to what I wanted to say —"but you know Barbara Guibbory, who does those seminars up in Rhinebeck, those past-life-regression things?†   (source)
  • Here's a sample question, from the verbal analogies section.†   (source)
  • If you want an analogy, just think of a tapeworm virus...one of the old kind...that's chewing up the data in your comlog...backward from the last entry.†   (source)
  • "A disturbing analogy" he said.†   (source)
  • Sorry about the food analogy — I couldn't think of another way to explain.†   (source)
  • So what can the writer use for parallels, analogies, plot structures, references, that most of his readers will know?†   (source)
  • In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to "a human being with his skin removed."†   (source)
  • The only analogy I could come up with wasn't a very good one.†   (source)
  • To offer another analogy, this is like dispatching a crew of meteor watchers to Crater National Park because a huge asteroid struck there two million years ago.†   (source)
  • The civil rights movement achieved many things, and one of them was to create a plausible analogy between Ole Miss football and the Confederate army.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Ambassador," Pelt interrupted, "consider a simple analogy.†   (source)
  • The Ports serve a function analogous to airports: This is where you drop into the Metaverse from somewhere else.†   (source)
  • At the time, Ruth thought the analogies and advice were simplistic.†   (source)
  • Moreover, my main objection to Mr Graham's analogy was the implication that this 'dignity' was something one possessed or did not by a fluke of nature; and if one did not self-evidently have it, to strive after it would be as futile as an ugly woman trying to make herself beautiful.†   (source)
  • I don't accept the analogy.†   (source)
  • Heath's friend replied with a fitting analogy for the SEALs.†   (source)
  • A useful analogy is slavery.†   (source)
  • She looked confused, and I realized she needed an Okie analogy to get it.†   (source)
  • But there was danger in the analogy: she'd heard of a railway porter at Madras Central Station who won lakhs and lakhs of rupees, only to have his life fall apart so that he soon returned to the platform.†   (source)
  • 'That's not even a valid analogy.†   (source)
  • That certainly is a pleasant analogy, my friend.†   (source)
  • It was an analogy†   (source)
  • The analogy so pleased him that he often used it in conversation with friends, and his formulation grew increasingly precise and elegant.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure I like that analogy.†   (source)
  • That Paine had attempted to prove the unlawfulness of monarchy with analogies from the Bible, declaring monarchy to be "one of the sins of the Jews," struck Adams as ridiculous.†   (source)
  • "Your analogy is excellent, sir," said Mr. Mompellion; his voice had the commanding timbre that he used in the pulpit.†   (source)
  • The analogies and metaphors.†   (source)
  • Perhaps that is an unfortunate analogy, since the barbarians eventually overran the Romans, and Latin, the language of empire, evolved into the many separate Romance languages.†   (source)
  • It's analogous to the kind of hang-up Sir Isaac Newton had when he wanted to solve problems of instantaneous rates of change.†   (source)
  • Leavitt himself suggested the analogy of the upper atmosphere and the depths of the sea as equally inhospitable environments, but equally viable.†   (source)
  • I resist such analogies, but it is my preferred mode of operating not only in draughts but in politics.†   (source)
  • "Impressive analogy," she rolled her eyes.†   (source)
  • And he was ready to marshal the principles of intuition, analogy, sympathy, historicism, intellectualism, spiritualism, the relation of physics to aesthetics, various schools of theology.... But in the end, he realized, it was all talk, lovely talk, with no power.†   (source)
  • Someone may claim that you have asserted, by analogy, that one potato is worth the same price, no more, no less, as one thousand potatoes.†   (source)
  • Nice analogy.†   (source)
  • 'The analogy is accurate,' broke in McAllister, his fingers at his right temple.†   (source)
  • They are interested solely in confirming highly dubious theoretical hypotheses by the logic of analogy and induction, and make no attempt at refutation or inter-sufyective testing.†   (source)
  • Willie uses the team analogy, but I think of it like a band.†   (source)
  • It seemed each time Mo Rhodes told the Themista story it got a little bit better, and every time she told it, Misty made an analogy to the Red Sea crashing down; she said that when she imagined Themista's young man, he always looked like Charlton Heston.†   (source)
  • I think that's a fair analogy, hey, Pete?†   (source)
  • It has instructive analogies to our Confederation of the American States.†   (source)
  • "I personally hate this analogy but it works," Dr. Givens said.†   (source)
  • The material establishes its own routes in a fashion analogous to the functioning of the brain when it is learning something.†   (source)
  • "This notion of different orders of time simultaneous but in no effective analogy or communication," Steiner continues, "may be necessary to the rest of us, who were not there, who lived as if on another planet."†   (source)
  • Detached from mankind—thrust back with sharp insults or, simply, blank stares by those whose activities he indifferently impedes—fawned over by fools who, in an analogous situation, cannot walk past a sleeping dog without calling to it and holding out their fingers—smiled at by children who tomorrow will frown or fawn, like their parents—the policeman little by little slides away from whatever comfortable humanity he may once have shared with his neighbors.†   (source)
  • But have yoU ever stopped to consider-if you will excuse a slightly flattering analogy-what a man from your Stone Age would have felt, if he suddenly found himself in a modern city?†   (source)
  • And it isn't a loss but a gain that these transient thoughts, intuitions, analogies are not put down on paper but forgotten.†   (source)
  • an analogous source of error   (source)
  • This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before.†   (source)
  • "Your analogy falls down when it comes to female artists," said Jimmy.†   (source)
  • Well, you know what they say: Finding the right analogy is as hard as ...†   (source)
  • It was covered in sexual analogies and metaphors today.†   (source)
  • He spoke of pollen blowing in the wind-I gather that this was some kind of analogy.†   (source)
  • "An interesting analogy," Hunter murmured.†   (source)
  • That was the analogy I had in mind, too.†   (source)
  • An easy analogy given the sharp tongue of Williamson.†   (source)
  • It had seemed like a funny analogy then; now it didn't.†   (source)
  • I hoped her analogy didn't have anything to do with Titanic-sized disasters.†   (source)
  • Yes, but prior to that — in, I believe, two paragraphs — he has stated that it is an analogy.†   (source)
  • He thought back to the city analogy, and the brain-cell analogy.†   (source)
  • Time, something expressed analogously with numbers, goes entirely awry in battle, as you must know.†   (source)
  • Analogy is always suspect, but that one is close to the facts.†   (source)
  • "Actually," Pickett said gravely, "I think my analogy of the club was best.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus replies, "Socrates himself says it is an analogy."†   (source)
  • Romantic Quality, in terms of this analogy, isn't any "part" of the train.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus says, "All this is just an analogy."†   (source)
  • After these explanations he returned to the analogy of the religious church.†   (source)
  • I keep wanting to go back to that analogy of fishing for facts.†   (source)
  • This entire description of the chariot and horses is just an analogy.†   (source)
  • In others, perhaps a better analogy can be found in the history of your colonial powers.†   (source)
  • But there is one analogy which is-well, suggestive and helpful.†   (source)
  • I am afraid that almost all I have to say now must be by means of such analogies.†   (source)
  • One way to understand what Gottman is saying about marriages is to use the analogy of what people in the world of Morse code call a fist.†   (source)
  • I felt a sudden wave of sadness when I realized that this was not a bad analogy for the way I probably looked next to Edward.†   (source)
  • So first day of summer, I'm in grand old Vine Station with this boy named Justin and we're at his house watching TV on the couch—and mind you, I'm already dating Jake—actually I'm still dating him, miraculously enough, but Justin is a friend of mine from when I was a kid and so we're watching TV and literally chatting about the SATs or something, and Justin puts his arm around me and I think, Oh that's nice, we've been friends for so long and this is totally comfortable, and we're just chatting and then I'm in the middle of a sentence about analogies or something and like a hawk he reaches down and he honks my boob.†   (source)
  • Obviously the episode could have these features without invoking Carroll, but the wonderland analogy enriches our understanding of what Berlin has created, furthering our sense of the outlandishness of this portion of his fantasy.†   (source)
  • We formulate new ideas by analogy, working from what we know toward what we don't know, and what the reformers knew were the rhythms of the agricultural seasons.†   (source)
  • With limited instruction, he had perfected the art of withholding his insights, forgoing his witticisms, curbing the use of metaphors, similes, and analogies—in essence, exercising every muscle of poetic restraint.†   (source)
  • Deploying the most shocking analogy he could muster, the clergyman asked Anthony if she'd prefer having a son of hers attend Buffalo Bill's show on Sunday instead of church.†   (source)
  • "We think of what we're doing as a lot like basketball," one of the Mother players said, and that's an apt analogy.†   (source)
  • Perhaps a better analogy is that...biologically at least...the life/metabolism mechanism has been reversed...ah...†   (source)
  • My explanation is only an analogy.†   (source)
  • Racially, there are lots of white and black people (the latter the product of an analogous great migration) but few others.†   (source)
  • The explosive development of technology was analogous to the growth of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: the exhaustion of all sources of nourishment, the destruction of organs, and the final death of the host body.†   (source)
  • Nice analogy.†   (source)
  • This sounds like an analogy, which I am not very good at— but even if it is taken literally, it is true.†   (source)
  • Is that an analogy?†   (source)
  • Let's not carry the analogy too far.†   (source)
  • Analogy.†   (source)
  • If you begin to pick up on some of these other elements, these parallels and analogies, however, you'll find your understanding of the novel deepens and becomes more meaningful, more complex.†   (source)
  • So a better analogy would be beach warfare in Vietnam: a broad open area that abruptly turns into jungle.†   (source)
  • Lagos modified the strict Chomskyan theory by supposing that learning a language is like blowing code into PROMs-an analogy that I cannot interpret.†   (source)
  • Or to use Steiner's analogy: Try to draw up the creature from the depths of the sea, and it will disintegrate or change form grotesquely.†   (source)
  • I cannot process an analogy.†   (source)
  • Is this another analogy?†   (source)
  • The analogy is clear.†   (source)
  • So I never did well on tests like that The same was true with word analogies, pairs of words in which you were supposed to find some sort of logical, semantic relationship — for example, "Sunset is to nightfall as is to ."†   (source)
  • After a moment, she pulled a magazine out, and I braced myself for some celebrity analogy, God help me.†   (source)
  • You're on our ward six hours and have already simplified all the work of Freud, Jung, and Maxwell Jones and summed it up in one analogy: it's a 'peckin' party.'†   (source)
  • He liked her analogy.†   (source)
  • She appreciated my generosity, no doubt, and saw clear to the idea that she might expand on that gratuity by increasing the canvas, if I may adopt an art analogy.†   (source)
  • For this they needed bodies, and the military analogy must have struck them, as indeed it should have.†   (source)
  • But then once the amino acids were strung together, they began to twist and coil upon themselves; the analogy became closer to a snake than a train.†   (source)
  • Again, Polton had a simple analogy.†   (source)
  • A rather unusual pair of analogies.†   (source)
  • No one ever thought to consider whether the human brain, the most complex structure in the known universe, making fantastic demands on the human body in terms of nourishment and blood, was not analogous.†   (source)
  • The One can only be described allegorically, through the use of analogy, of figures of imagination and speech.†   (source)
  • In terms of the analogy, Classic Knowledge, the knowledge taught by the Church of Reason, is the engine and all the boxcars.†   (source)
  • Socrates chooses a heaven-and-earth analogy, showing how individuals are drawn toward the One by a chariot drawn by two horses.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus' refusal to define Quality, in terms of this analogy, was an attempt to break the grip of the classical sandsifting mode of understanding and find a point of common understanding between the classic and romantic worlds.†   (source)
  • Of course it's an analogy.†   (source)
  • Everything is an analogy.†   (source)
  • By analogies to what is known before.†   (source)
  • He described how a second wave of crystallization, guided by analogies to established mathematics, produced what he later named the "Theta-Fuchsian Series."†   (source)
  • However, Star told me later that the wards weren't even faintly "magic" but were within reach of Earth technology once some bright boy got the idea—an "electrified fence" without the fence, as radio is a telephone without wires, an analogy that won't hold up.†   (source)
  • Was it not plausible that some psychic valve in me, analogous to whatever controls the libido of a twenty-year convict or a lovelorn ape, had blown its gaskets, leaving me guiltlessly different, victim of the pressures of biological selection but nonetheless a pervert?†   (source)
  • It was Karl Mannheim, a long while ago, who made the observation that radical, revolutionary, and progressive thinkers tend to employ mechanical metaphors for the state, whereas those of conservative inclination make vegetable analogies.†   (source)
  • He reflected again that he conceived of history, of what is called the course of history, not in the accepted way but by analogy with the vegetable kingdom.†   (source)
  • Something like a theory of relativity governing the hippodrome of life occurred to him, but he became confused and gave up his analogies.†   (source)
  • Analogies and impressions: a face seen through a wet pane of glass; a whisper in a noisy terminal; scalp massage with an electric vibrator; Edvard Munch's The Scream; the voice of Yma Sumac, rising and rising and rising; the disappearance of snow; a deserted street, illuminated as through a sniperscope I'd once used, rapid movement past darkened storefront†   (source)
  • Wasn't it possible, he asked Sophie once—and, he added, speaking as a cellular biologist—that on the level of human behavior the Nazi phenomenon was analogous to a huge and crucial colony of cells going morally berserk, creating the same kind of danger to the body of humanity as does a virulently malignant tumor in a single human body?†   (source)
  • I was deep into Crime and Punishment, and although my ambitions as a writer had been laid low by the book's stupefying range and complexity, I had, for several afternoons now, been forging ahead with admiring wonder, much of my amazement having to do simply with Raskolnikov, whose bedeviled and seedy career in St. Petersburg seemed (except for a murder) so closely analogous to mine in Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • And yet-the analogy was false.†   (source)
  • The observer stood with her hand upon her own bosom, looking at the girl, as one afflicted with a diseased part might curiously watch the dissection and exposition of an analogous case.†   (source)
  • The Snuggery had two of the qualities popularly held to be essential to grog for ladies, in respect that it was hot and strong; but in the third point of analogy, requiring plenty of it, the Snuggery was defective; being but a cooped-up apartment.†   (source)
    analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
  • Yes, analogy and paradox and madness too.†   (source)
  • The function of ritual and myth is to make possible, and then to facilitate, the jump—by analogy.†   (source)
  • The delusion rests simply upon a false analogy.†   (source)
  • Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them.†   (source)
  • If we take any one of these coupled opposites, such as piety and profligacy, the analogy is immediately comprehensible.†   (source)
  • This holy place, established in 1869, was dedicated to the spirits of all the Japanese who had died in wars against foreign powers, and could be thought roughly analogous, in terms of its symbolism for the nation, to the Arlington National Cemetery — with the difference that souls, not bodies, were hallowed there.†   (source)
  • It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.†   (source)
  • The Buddha beneath the Tree of Enlightenment (the Bo Tree) and Christ on Holy Rood (the Tree of Redemption) are analogous figures, incorporating an archetypal World Savior, World Tree motif, which is of immemorial antiquity.†   (source)
  • You would like, if you could, to interpret the patient's prostration in the Presence, his self-abhorrence and utter knowledge of his sins (yes, Wormwood, a clearer knowledge even than yours) on the analogy of your own choking and paralysing sensations when you encounter the deadly air that breathes from the heart of Heaven.†   (source)
  • He had nothing to compare and gauge it by but the rifle analogy, and it would not make sense by that.†   (source)
  • There he lives, I thought, and carries on his labors year by year, reads and annotates texts, seeks for analogies between western Asiatic and Indian mythologies, and it satisfies him, because he believes in the value of it all.†   (source)
  • and would this time destroy) him once; I see the analogy myself now: the accelerating circle's fatal curving course of his ruthless pride, his lust for vain magnificence, though I did not then.†   (source)
  • The trance-susceptible shaman and the initiated antelope-priest are not unsophisticated in the wisdom of the world, nor unskilled in the principles of communication by analogy.†   (source)
  • Mythological symbols, however, have to be followed through all their implications before they open out the full system of correspondences through which they represent, by analogy, the millennial adventure of the soul.†   (source)
  • It was like that, he said, like an explosion—a bright glare that vanished and left nothing, no ashes nor refuse: just a limitless flat plain with the severe shape of his intact innocence rising from it like a monument; that innocence instructing him as calm as the others had ever spoken, using his own rifle analogy to do it with, and when it said them in place of he or him, it meant more than all the human puny mortals under the sun that might lie in hammocks all afternoon with their shoes off 'If you were fixing to combat them that had the fine rifles, the first thing you would do would be to get yourself the nearest thing to a fine rifle you could borro†   (source)
  • The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, and hundreds of analogous tales throughout the world, suggest, as does this ancient legend of the farthest East, that in spite of the failure recorded, a possibility exists of a return of the lover with his lost love from beyond the terrible threshold.†   (source)
  • "In the name of God," said Mr. Henchy, "where's the analogy between the two cases?"†   (source)
  • The Bishop, who was present, was much struck by some of the analogies I drew.†   (source)
  • The analogy was well meant, but did not altogether please him.†   (source)
  • I could not see the analogy, but did not like to admit it, so I harked back to what he had denied.†   (source)
  • "Let me put it simpler," began Dale, evidently racking his brain for analogy.†   (source)
  • Of course the vital heat is not to be confounded with fire; but so much for analogy.†   (source)
  • There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson.†   (source)
  • I found, in the commonest objects of the universe, a circle of analogies to that expression.†   (source)
  • Something analogous occurs to what happens in society in the United States, politically considered.†   (source)
  • —In fact, the world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities.†   (source)
  • Something analogous to this, but even more striking, may be observed in the United States.†   (source)
  • Reasoning from analogy, Richard, but not with any certainty of the fact.†   (source)
  • The accursed shark alone can in any generic respect be said to bear comparative analogy to him.†   (source)
  • "If it's my duty," Ralph asked, "is it not, by analogy, yours as well?"†   (source)
  • But we may derive some faint notion of them from analogy.†   (source)
  • Another analogy we shall now trace, that every action admits of being outdone.†   (source)
  • This identical result proceeds from causes which are nearly analogous.†   (source)
  • how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies!†   (source)
  • Something analogous may be said of the judicial power.†   (source)
  • Something of an analogous character is more and more apparent in Europe.†   (source)
  • This identical result seems to be produced in Europe and in America by wholly analogous causes.†   (source)
  • Municipal expenses exist in both countries, but they are not always analogous.†   (source)
  • An analogous observation may be made respecting public officers.†   (source)
  • If for his part our good engineer has already voiced analogous opinions, that only confirms my surmise that, like so many talented young men, he is playing the intellectual dilettante, temporarily experimenting with possible points of view.†   (source)
  • In the firelight Snake Anson's face looked lean and serpent-like, his eyes glittered, and his long neck and all of his long length carried out the analogy of his name.†   (source)
  • To some extent the Nore Mutiny may be regarded as analogous to the distempering irruption of contagious fever in a frame constitutionally sound, and which anon throws it off.†   (source)
  • I have sometimes half suspected that here the winged ram Chrysomallus left that Fleece after which Jason and his Argonauts went vaguely wandering into the shadowy East three thousand years ago; and certainly one might frame a pretty and not far-fetched analogy of witchery and dragons' teeth, and blood and armed men, between the ancient and the modern quest of the Golden Fleece in the Black Sea.†   (source)
  • If his great cavernous eyes expressed any feeling it was analogous to the reluctance manifest in his posture—he regretted the presence of his gang.†   (source)
  • And I remember that the sounds they made reminded me of the squealing of pigs under the knife of the butcher, and I was struck with horror at the vividness of the analogy.†   (source)
  • It was a triumph of irony for that outcast poet to die amid the trappings of vulgar respectability; it reminded Leonard Upjohn of Christ among the Pharisees, and the analogy gave him opportunity for an exquisite passage.†   (source)
  • The habit was analogous to a debauch, an outlet, though the worst of outlets, for instincts that would not be denied.†   (source)
  • He felt that they were not analogous to the fantastic and unreal dreams due to intoxication by hashish, opium or wine.†   (source)
  • Yet the analogy left him unsatisfied, for a coarse texture will not take a high finish; and was it not possible that the material was fine, but that circumstance had fashioned it into a futile shape?†   (source)
  • I should dearly like to think that the name was originally Rouville, from Radulfi villa, analogous, don't you see, to Chateauroux, Castrum Radulfi, but we will talk about that some other time.†   (source)
  • Students of criminology will remember the analogous incidents in Godno, in Little Russia, in the year '66, and of course there are the Anderson murders in North Carolina, but this case possesses some features which are entirely its own.†   (source)
  • To regard an Indian as if he were an Italian is not, for instance, a common error, nor perhaps a fatal one, and Fielding often attempted analogies between this peninsula and that other, smaller and more exquisitely shaped, that stretches into the classic waters of the Mediterranean.†   (source)
  • I thought I would push his analogy to its utmost logically, so I said quickly, "Oh, it is a soul you are after now, is it?"†   (source)
  • "It's to show me," he thought, "what would happen to ME—" and a deathly sense of the superiority of implication and analogy over direct action, and of silence over rash words, closed in on him like the doors of the family vault.†   (source)
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