<span>The reason Gladwell prefers to utilize the term of bargain as opposed to other words that have similar meanings, is due to the fact that it provides a specific set of tone and voice that the author is trying to implement as he is making his point to readers.</span>
This expression taken from Allan Poe the "surf-tormented shore" becomes a second metaphor for time, as the waters of the sea slowly but inexorably pound away at the physical existence of the shore.
There was no name for this virtue in Greek, and in English we use the same word both for the virtue and for the vice of excess (maybe we have trouble distinguishing them). The deficiency we just call “lack of ambition.” Good temper – is moderation in one's proneness to anger.
Three metaphors are in the poem mother to son
