The host made a throwaway remark about the president that was later repeated on the television news.

A drought hinders the growth of plants.

The third chapter focuses on the theme of alcohol, which is a sort of supermetaphor of poetic distillation, encompassing all the other metaphors.

The Defenestration at Prague (A.D. 1618). … The imperial Austrian Councillors are thrown out of the window of the castle of Hradschin by the enraged Bohemian Deputies …