similes

The Nebraska-born Walz also emanates the positivity of Ted Lasso, a Kansan, minus the stuffed-down crippling depression and the barrage of folksy similes.

His witty similes and graceful prose have arguably done more to open minds to the potential intellectual value of crime fiction than any other writing.

Another song, “Runaway Train,” is an upbeat collaboration with Jon Randall that wouldn’t be out of place on mainstream country radio, savoring its similes: “You’ve got a heart like a runaway train/screaming down the mountainside.”

Boras then went into one of his similes and word plays.

Ted came to England as a broken man with a gentle smile on his face, a head full of homespun similes, cornpone puns and a heart bursting with Midwestern niceness.