synecdochic

I realize I am being figurative -- not metaphoric, but synecdochic -- in saying you can count on meeting a Carrot at BEA2012.

Peter Ginna: An Insider's Guide to the Characters of BookExpo America Peter Ginna 2011

I realize I am being figurative -- not metaphoric, but synecdochic -- in saying you can count on meeting a Carrot at BEA2012.

Peter Ginna: An Insider's Guide to the Characters of BookExpo America Peter Ginna 2011

Political discourse, as practiced by Obama, McCain, and practically every other politician plopped in front of a microphone, is riddled with, mired in, crippled by, and sometimes derailed by synecdochic expressions.

Say It Like This, Mean It Like That 2008

Even a seemingly unambiguous word like "taxes" - has acquired synecdochic tendencies.

Say It Like This, Mean It Like That 2008

Obama has managed to co-opt the word "change" - to such a degree that it has become a synecdochic stand-in for "not Bush, not McCain" - and ideas along those lines.

Say It Like This, Mean It Like That 2008

Heck, the word "liberal" - itself is, for some of those who stand on the other side of the red/blue divide, a synecdochic stand-in for "tax-and-spend homosexual-loving anti-Americans."

Say It Like This, Mean It Like That 2008

REC's final image has become its phosphor-burned synecdochic signifier like the up-the-nose view of Heather Donahue in THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, an obvious inspiration.

31 Screams: Manuela Velasco Arbogast 2008

In "The Angry Owner: Samuel Richardson, Modern Authorship and the Ancient Romance," Kathryn Temple situates a similar slippage between eighteenth-century concepts of copyright and such issues as classical appropriation, sea piracy, and the synecdochic theft of the female body.

Introduction: Juridical Texts and Transgressive Containment 1999

The desire to unmask a-- or the -- conspiracy, the desire for a totalizing perspective, is always met by conspiracy's self-defining proposition that it can never fully be known, that the absence of conspiracy is its best evidence, and that the conspiracy always turns out to be just a conspiracy, one counter-plot to a plot's many counter-plots, oscillating proof for either a synecdochic whole or an infinite metonymic chain.

Wang, Introduction 1997

That Starbucks line was obviously a joke, but a synecdochic one (you all know that word, right?), with the coffee chain standing in for a modicum of urbanity, diversity, the meeting of certain basic demographic conditions and so forth.

Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Michael Tomasky 2010