As miraculous and consoling as…
I wish you some miraculous and consoling intimations that feel like Helen's hand laid across your brow.
'... an intimation...
As permanent as …
The meringue as a simile for impermanence, which prompts me to invent a new sweet bake, the melt in your...
Swarming possibility
An unusual image, of possibility swarming like larvae, ready to burst into butterfly winged realization. Â
... to...
Vague but unmistakable
A perfectly horrific way to intimate the dreadful anticipation of a mortal enemy. Here Flay realizes, when the hated Chef...
As fast as…
You can see the greased lightening serpent-slither whiplash-speed over slippery tiles.
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As natural as…
If someone said 'as natural as...' what would pop into your mind? 'Tap water' seems unusual, but when we are...
As inert as …
Two fine similes to describe inertness, of which I lean to the first as being more euphonic and original.
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As white as …
Probably the liveliest simile for whiteness I've come across, though I have highlighted others, less earthy.
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As insensible as …
Of course, we can't know (yet) how insensible a fungus is, but until we learn otherwise, what a memorable way...
Simile of sin
A pithy simile for someone sin-sunk, cleverly playing on the double meanings of 'raddle'. .Â
Soaked in...
Sucking at stones
Swelter is one of the less attractive characters in Mervyn Peake's sprawling, crawling, mossy pile of forgotten granite, Gormenghast. He...
A long lane
Keats had a humbling capacity to squeeze out moments of joy even while grappling with the illness which would kill...
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