Invasional meltdown six years later: important phenomenon, unfortunate metaphor, or both?

It was an unfortunate metaphor to use, because Santorum has been engaged in a long and losing war with the Internet largely because of dogs.

Despite some exquisite individual lines, the rubbish piling up on the stage becomes an unfortunate metaphor for an overstuffed story told with waning conviction.

That unfortunate metaphor sprang to mind last Thursday when a pack of formerly bullish stock analysts suddenly cooled on the shares of Amazon.com.

This was a most unfortunate metaphor, and each man backed away from it.

"Guerrilla filmmaking," the term applied to Mr. Rodriguez's feat, seems like an unfortunate metaphor now that actual guerrillas are making films.

This brings us back to Mr. Samadi's unfortunate metaphor.

(The sawmill's way of cutting logs may be an unfortunate metaphor.)