How To Use Figurative In A Sentence

I left figurative art because I was bored of it. Times, Sunday Times
His escape meant that he had to be figuratively executed, with the result that the people, ideas, and culture associated with him were outlawed and destroyed in his stead.
This message, even when presented figuratively, uses extra linguistic referents to bring it in touch with the reality around us.
The specter of death lingers over the entire film, both figuratively with Tommy Lee Jones as a corporate "axeman" sent to close down the show after one last performance and literally, in the form of Virginia Madsen's angel in a white trenchcoat, a noirish avatar of death who Altman credits as the "Dangerous Woman" even though she's given an actual name in the film. Archive 2008-11-01
This Saturday you can avoid hundreds of unnecessary calories by skipping the pigskin (literally and figuratively) and saying yes to fitness.

The goal of her thoughtful analysis is to reincorporate the father back into the family picture or narrative, a narrative from which he has been excluded both figuratively and literally by the mother.
In some cases where the word has extensive normal usages, as in the case of 'lux' this is true of the English 'light' as well, depending on how one takes the word the same sentence can be treated as figurative or literal and mean basically the same thing. Archive 2005-05-01
Particularly when used in a figurative sense to refer to having heard something unpleasant.
Within this framework, much of the First Testament has functioned in a typological or prefigurative manner, or as a shadow-like version of the truth God revealed in the gospel.
Painted in 1953, it dates from the period during which Barns-Graham, originally a figurative painter, was reconciling hard-edged geometrical abstraction with a love of landscape.
This year boasts a refreshing mix of the figurative and the conceptional.
But so far has he been from stirring and taking away that which is, or contradicting that which evidently appears, that he casts not so much as one single word out of the accustomed use; but taking away all figurative fraud that might hurt or endamage things, he again restored the ordinary and useful signification to words in these verses: - Essays and Miscellanies
Passion, as containing Christ crucified; consequently it could not be instituted before the Incarnation; but then there was room for only such sacraments as were prefigurative of the Lord's Passion. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Liu's non-figurative paintings embody an extreme intensity which has become a trademark style of this talented painter.
Has photography rendered figurative art pointless? Times, Sunday Times
I have never used the term tar baby, have now placed it on my official “do not use” list along with all sorts of other terms, and generally try to be very sensitive to how slurs can figuratively cut and bleed even when used unintentionally. Is Tony Snow, Press Secretary to the Pres. a Racist?
Lawlor's equine subjects are informed by the mythical rather than the figurative or strictly anatomical study.
Now it may be that a lunar outpost is valuable in its own right but if as many people say its primary purpose is as a stepping stone to Mars, I need to hear the argument about why the quickest/cheapest path to Mars passes through the moon (figuratively of course!). common sense Moon Outpost or Bust - NASA Watch
Teens comprehend abstract language, such as idioms, figurative language, and metaphors.
a figurative kind, as the word peacock, and furthermore the allusion to Nicholas's nose, which was not intended to be taken in its literal sense, but rather to bear a latitude of construction according to the fancy of the hearers. Nicholas Nickleby
By the early 17th century, "cynosure" was also being used figuratively for anything or anyone that, like the North Star, was the focus of attention or observation. Latest Articles
In consequence he thinks that excessive caution has characterized instruction in figurative language.
He turned his back on the London art-world and renounced the idea of abstraction, believing that a figurative style would be the only way to convey clearly what he had seen.
Despite the figurative grotesquerie, which is more nuisance than threat, it is a painting of nothing — no thing as such but atmosphere — a moody, indeterminate matter expressive of an interior mental state conjured through paint and paint alone. Ensor Unmasked
It is the breezy, figurative style of his posters and paintings that is especially engaging.
Paradoxically, much figurative art uses excessive detail to cover up, to make things more dense and to deny space. Improve Your Landscape Painting
All of this material becomes part of the prefigurative, the everyday world from which program creators construct narrative.
These men who had awakened, laughed dissolvent laughs, and the old muddle of schools and colleges, books and traditions, the old fumbling, half-figurative, half-formal teaching of the Churches, the complex of weakening and confusing suggestions and hints, amidst which the pride and honor of adolescence doubted and stumbled and fell, became nothing but a curious and pleasantly faded memory. In the Days of the Comet
Behind the jar, a sketch pad is peopled with figurative roughs, historical drafts - the preliminaries of art and history, of cultural recognition.
In any event, we know that after drinking alcohol we often lose direction, literally and figuratively.
The word 'Taino' means noble and in a twist of history the passage of the no-abortion legislation is figuratively a return to the island nation's namesake in its very aspect. ProLifeBlogs
The more marginal space of poetry, therefore, might rather be that of a dissensus, of which the pull toward margins would be a figurative representation.
Her own work often walks a fine line between figurative art and something more elemental and emotional. Times, Sunday Times
A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless. source The Floccinaucinihilipilificators
Currently, she lives in Seattle, Washington where she works as a figurative artist and writer.
The word sleuth Barry Popik seems to have found the earliest known publisheduse of the term in its figurative sense. The Grammarphobia Blog » Blog Archive » The gold diggers of Broadway
Footwear is one aspect that can make a difference to the bearing of the person, literally and figuratively.
To facilitate figurative understanding of this chapter for the control of the results of visual programming.
The works include landscapes, still lifes, figuratives, abstracts and pastels, by approximately 75 artists.
This aspect is the representation of exemplariness, a representation designed to work always, although it sometimes does so literally, sometimes figuratively.
Thus, through the hands of Dumouriez, may Rouget de Lille, in figurative speech, be said to have gained, miraculously, like another Orpheus, by his Marseillese fiddle-strings (fidibus canoris) a Victory of Jemappes; and conquered the Low Countries. The French Revolution
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So far, his art has remained figurative. Times, Sunday Times
It is not agreed whether the expression Jezebel, is to be understood literally or figuratively. The Woman's Bible
Often, he mixes abstract and figurative imagery, and over the years the mixture has changed.
The essence of realism, it is not merely figurative but meticulously mimetic.
They have a taste - figuratively speaking - for excitement.
Teens comprehend abstract language, such as idioms, figurative language, and metaphors.
A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless. source The Floccinaucinihilipilificators
The paddling pool was re-built incorporating figurative features and lots of bright colour.
Beginning with a steel armature she gradually moulds her semi-figurative sculptures out of plaster, which are then bronze-casted.
Judy Fox's figurative ceramic sculptures exude an aggregate energy that is built up over time.
He's my son, in the figurative sense of the word.
The standard was derived from the smaller figurative works on some of the larger paintings and then we kept to that.
He pared his figurative forms—a torso, bird, kiss or head—down to essences, often in the form of ovoid, cubic or tubular masses. The Shape of Things
But I just think that figurative usages don't in fact help richness and vibrancy much.
In the 16th century, the first known figurative use of "enthrall" appeared in the following advice, translated from a Latin text by Thomas Newton: "A man should not ... enthrall his credit and honour to Harlots. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
Although told that such usage might be metaphorical or figurative, Tess is undeterred.
He developed an idiosyncratic, instantly recognizable style that combined figurative expressionism with influences from Klimt, Schiele and Austrian Art Nouveau.
Both literally and figuratively, they seemed squeezed into less space within the chamber.
Jim's figurative decapitation could thus be regarded as a literal interpretation of this ideal of racial unconsciousness.
I know I'll spend time in Tennessee and mend some fences, literally and figuratively.
In one of Aquinas's most interesting discussions, in a little-read article on whether the word 'lux' is properly used of spiritual things, Aquinas recognizes that the distinction between figurative and literal usage is one relative to how one takes the words in question. On Some Misconceptions About Figurative Language
Even so, the signature styles of the figurative work are very much in evidence.
Photographs are allowed, but artists are still often uneasy about figurative paintings. Times, Sunday Times
It is not about the real recipe, which is literally locked up in a safe in Louisville and figuratively in a few executives' brains.
Originally from Brisbane, Australia, Mark, is a figurative sculptor working in bronze.
In his figurative works he let the figure bulge out of anatomical specifications and proportions.
The subject of her work is mostly figurative in nature and is often that of people, especially children, she has encountered in her travels.
Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist who, since the Japanese pop movement of the 1990s, has received international acclaim with his distinct figurative style. Doreen Remen: Last Chance for a Last Look at Nara
The Mays seem to like oils by contemporary figurative artists who paint street scenes and landscapes in a rather Victorian way. Times, Sunday Times
The truth-telling capacities of the (literal and figurative) glass are counterpoised with the false images reflected back on the Earl by those who assess his body as a part of a wider social organism.
The old Ark of the Covenant is a prefigurative type of Mary—it was considered by the Israelites as a very holy object, something so holy that no one could touch it! Marian Devotion
Unfortunately, the ideological collision of the two masterminds is something I wish Ritchie would have applied more heat to early on, as it simmers on low for too long, and is left undercooked by the time the figurative chess match they've engaged in for two films is literalized in a pay-off that should be familiar to anyone who's read Doyle's "The Final Solution," the only story where the two actually meet. Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Figurative scenes taken directly from, or inspired by, Roman wall paintings and marble friezes are framed with elaborate borders of motifs and symbols derived from antiquity.
Here, on just four walls, is as good a cross-section of post-war figurative art as you are ever likely to see in any gallery bar the Tate.
` ` Leave Poll alone; she's in one of her trances! '' called a motherly, good-natured woman whose trunk stood next to Polly's, and whose business was to support a son and three daughters upon stalwart shoulders, both figuratively and literally. Polly of the Circus
What is notably absent is any of Laing's more recent figurative sculpture.
In the twentieth century Wassily Kandinsky is considered as the inventor of non-figurative art.
She, that would not suffer at his birth even a prefigurative or mimic degradation for her awful ward, far less could be supposed to suffer the real degradation attaching to the non-development of his powers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
Through figurative abstracted works on paper, Tempe artist Ron Bimrose taps into light themes like transition, fate and personal choice.
Paradoxically, much figurative art uses excessive detail to cover up, to make things more dense and to deny space. Improve Your Landscape Painting
Yes, the indicting magistrate is on the left, but according to the Economist the complainants are members of far right organizations with a vested interest in avoiding digging into the past (figuratively and literally). The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Baltazar Garzón Indicted
The irony is that in the subsequent stories, so many are living in darkness, both figurative and literal.
The term mercury is used figuratively in such expressions as The mercurys rising to mean that the temperature is going up. Mercury
The gallery specialises in contemporary figurative and landscape paintings. Times, Sunday Times
She is, figuratively speaking, holding a gun to his head.
He's my son, in the figurative sense of the word.
Subsequently the substantive "viaticum" figuratively meant the provision for the journey of life and finally by metaphor the provision for the passage out of this world into the next. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
A full range of styles, from figurative and abstraction to portraiture, landscape, naturalism and cartoon-like renderings, is on display.
The scattering of the Beats was both physical and figurative, and it was so highly charged for their poetics as well as their ethics because it represented a fall from a specific point of origin when proximity seemed absolute.
The first was that the adjoining bungalow would not be overshadowed, either practically or figuratively, by the new house.
The Mays seem to like oils by contemporary figurative artists who paint street scenes and landscapes in a rather Victorian way. Times, Sunday Times
Any Object we see is Abstract, because it is composed of an infinite number of indefinable, unrecognizable, nonfigurative, shadowy, intangible, imperceptible and undetectable 'points' or 'areas' and all these areas do not, and cannot, allow any human being to perceive them or relate to them in any meaningful manner. Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
I. i.2 (143,2) [that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die] [W: app'tite, Love] It is true, we do not talk of the _death of appetite_, because we do not ordinarily speak in the figurative language of poetry; but that _appetite sickens by a surfeit_ is true, and therefore proper. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Criminals sitting out long-term sentences were given a rare opportunity to break down the figurative walls between prison life and freedom by joining local students in staging an opera near Frankfurt. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
In the figurative sense, the verb 'façonner' = to shape, to mould (somebody's character/personality) - La pauvreté dans sa jeunesse a façonné son caractère. Façonner - French Word-A-Day
By consciously subverting the genre of figurative painting, he evokes a miscellaneous sense of emptiness, horror, desire and unutterable inner fire with Eastern religious connotations.
Working both figuratively and abstractly, in bronze, clay, and various print mediums, he showed in New York at a number of galleries.
Promoted to Headline (H2) on 9/5/08: Beating the Press-Literally yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Beating the Press-Literally'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: only in America could a man who has called the corporatized, in-the-tank, mainstream media his "base" -- the media that made him its darling and hailed him for his supposed \'straight talk\' -- run against that very same media, bashing it figuratively while "peace officers" were doing so quite literally in the streets of St. Paul ... ' Beating the Press-Literally
Underlying these figurative images were literal beliefs. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
Allowing for some degree of facetiousness on Andrew's part, he is otherwise highlighting the assumption that "good writing" consists essentially of deploying figurative language -- in this instance specifically a simile: "was wet like ..." -- in strategically chosen flourishes as a way to "describe. Style in Fiction
What is it that viewers are seeing—literally and figuratively—when they see the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument, or the Lincoln Memorial on the screen?
Thus he was particularly devoted to figurative painting, championing it at a time when conceptualism and ‘art theory’ kept all painting on the defensive.
If one wants examples of well-used metaphors and other figurative uses in legal scholarship, the natural place to look is to the writings of the better prose stylists in the academy.
His powerful figurative work has made him one of the foremost British artists of his generation.
While he alludes to abstraction and discusses it in objective terms, the notion most analysed in the book is the origin and function of naturalistic, figurative art.
But maybe by this token Cooke is to be admired for his risk-taking and for bravely trying to revivify a painterly figurative tradition that stretches from Rembrandt through to Bacon. This week's new exhibitions
The good citizens were so enraged that they rose up in arms, figuratively at least, and founded the civic society.
And it is a particularly literal-minded kind of description: no fussy, unnecessary adjectives, no figurative flourishes to get in the way of a full-on apprehension of the house and its wooden walls, its veranda flagstones and "vertical surfaces. Translated Texts
Photographs are allowed, but artists are still often uneasy about figurative paintings. Times, Sunday Times
He is best known these days for his heroically scaled figurative paintings.
Despite the word's unwieldiness, then, I would propose that mimesis and anti-mimesis confront each other-optically, materially, figuratively-in Triptyque through a logic of ‘photo-scotomization.’
The titular porch may only be figurative, but the dulcifying vibe of a laid-back afternoon hang amongst congenial compadres comes across loud and clear.
Leave Poll alone; she's in one of her trances!" called a motherly, good-natured woman whose trunk stood next to Polly's, and whose business was to support a son and three daughters upon stalwart shoulders, both figuratively and literally. Polly of the Circus
The artist's lyrical, figurative paintings and collages reflect multivalent effects of his study of other art.
The abstraction of most of the visuals neatly sidesteps the often glaringly obvious lack of ideas in more figurative work at the same time as it mirrors the nature of the music it accompanies.
Fritz Reiner himself had gone on a figurative voyage of discovery before realizing that this was music worth conducting and recording.
It would make his move towards a criticism of absolute time both figurative and literal.
Barack people spited Clinton (and her supporters) this year (to the extent of figuratively spitting on them) but expect the support of her people this year. As Convention Begins, McCain Ad Features Hillary Supporter For McCain
American commentators continue to object to orientate (used more frequently by the British), mainly because orient is shorter but also because the figurative use is outstripping the literal one. July « 2009 « Sentence first
They go there in search of excitement and electricity - in both a figurative and a literal sense.
With him abstract work came from within, while figurative work and even abstraction from nature were rooted in external stimuli.
From this perspective, it's not that there is no distinction between literal and figurative but rather that tropes and figures are fundamental structures of language, not exceptions and distortions.
Though mostly nonfigurative, it wasn't abstract, not really. Puppetry With a (Basil) Twist
Indeed, the prefigurative approach embraced by Kovel is an essential step forward.
In the mid 1920s his work became more figurative in a manner recalling Léger and the Purists (he met Léger, Le Corbusier and Ozenfant when he revisited Paris in 1924), and his work met with considerable acclaim in France.
The work he seemed to reject, in 1970, was not a single-minded oeuvre, but spanned a remarkable range, from delicate and almost serene studies in red crosshatching that look a bit like a sunset imposed on Monet's waterlilies, to thick, roughly painted and dark forms in the early to mid-1960s that suggest not so much abstraction as a futile effort to paint over and blot out suppressed figurative ideas. Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips
And poetry exercises this muscle by encouraging figurative language providing a sounding ground for your ideas, feelings, reminiscences by putting them into a concrete perspective.
Miracle in the figurative sense, since although we do not know how cells evolved, quite plausible scenarios have been proposed.
Not just real grit, but figurative grit. Times, Sunday Times
It is not so much the use of language that Rousseau deplores - even less of figurative language, since figuration represents for Rousseau the form under which language first appeared.
At the same time biology, too, gave closer attention to the problem of catalysis, which is, of course, one of the organism's main agencies for an enormous variety of purposes, and again the kinetic definition proved superior to all other attempted generalizations, some of which were more figurative than objective. Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture
Bushmanship was the talent, akin to that of Aborigines, for finding one's way through the bush, relying only on natural signs; to be bushed was to lose one's way, perhaps figuratively as well as geographically.
It was a figurative abstract of Pare Argile holding his son as a newly born baby.
Sarcasm, irony, and figurative language in general isn't capable of being handled automatically in a lexical way (which is what my system is based on), but requires a more subtle discourse and contextual (in the nonlinguistic sense) analysis. On the dangers of Facebook
Even aside from the fact that the use of it as a conceit in magic realism and fabulism is purposefully aimed at a figurative representation of what is marvellous in actuality, in reality, Bukiet’s complaint has little to do with what I’d term alethic quirks and credibility warp. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
Her own work often walks a fine line between figurative art and something more elemental and emotional. Times, Sunday Times
Some have suggested that Salem here is the Salim of John 3: 23; a few take the term figuratively as a title (see verse two) devoid of any geographical intent. Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews
Under cover of darkness our hero figuratively sneaks onto the White House lawn and retrieves those long lost medals, earned over that hellish 4-month span.
At the same time, all this diverse material is unified and made mysteriously figurative.
Her butterfly and figurative prints, with their muted colour palette, have a delicate vintage look.
But also costly figuratively, costly psychologically, because the new social lassitude associated with liberalism affronted cherished values.
Or did the columnist mean to use the term figuratively as when individuals were "beaten up" by government hiring personnel who rejected their otherwise acceptable applications for employment because the resumes weren't ideologically pure enough? LJWorld.com stories: News
Painting came off best, taking two primary directions: reductive abstraction and figurative work characterized by a dispassionate folksiness.
Created by designer Paola Navone and inspired by the art of topiary, it will not only make for a comfortable seating experience surrounded by nature, but also for a true figurative art for your garden. Garden Furniture by Patricia Urquiola
Paris is what, in figurative speech, they call 'flooded with pamphlets (regorge de brochures);' flooded and eddying again. The French Revolution
Nonetheless, I think that even Philippe's examples expose some risks of figurative usage.
He was still a figurative painter; he would not make the full leap into abstraction for almost another decade.
On the third point: the parabolical meaning is contained in the literal, since the words indicate something directly, and also something figuratively. Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
Literal and figurative, distances gaged by both mileage and imagination. Adrienne Benson Scherger: Not a Usual Grandmother: Evelyn Ellis Cohelan at Ninety
Yet the artists he persuaded to join his groundbreaking venture — each of them firmly embedded in the nonfigurative abstraction that so rapidly became the fashionable art of that time — must have felt some strong pull toward giving the congregants something recognizable. Abstraction in the Synagogue
Paint-Or-Die manages to represent a wide gamut of modern painting styles: colour-field painting, abstracts, figurative and representational styles are all here.
Maybe we should hear the symbolic and figurative meanings of horns in Hebrew - maturity, power, lordliness, arrogance, plenty, the corners of the altar - as well as the singular meaning, ‘sending out rays.’
But everyone presently apprehends that this expression is figurative, the abstract being put for the concrete by a metalepsis, and charity is said to do that which a man endued with that grace will do. Pneumatologia
However, three-dimensional figurative depictions soon predominated, with painted pictograms representing symbols, mottos, and accomplishments of kings.
Secondly, from the point of view of text, the war literature tries to abstract and sort out history by the narrative strategies of figurative usages and typification.
An Inner Critic can indeed roust you out of bed in the morning, get you on the treadmill (literally and figuratively) and spur you to finish that book or symphony or invention.
During his literal captivity as a prisoner of war in Kentucky, he becomes figuratively captivated by her sophistries, which are explicitly coded as American.
As for the styles in which the popular works are executed, Castro has seen a move toward abstracts, while Delacroix, by contrast, has seen increased interest in figurative and naif works.
Agalmatophilia is a paraphilia concerned with the sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin or other similar figurative object.
(Rom., viii, l); and why, according to James (i, 14 sqq.), concupiscence as such is really no sin; and it is apparent that St. Paul (Rom., vii, 17) is speaking only figuratively when he calls concupiscence sin, because it springs from sin and brings sin in its train. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Arp's painted-wood bas-relief "La Femme-amphore" (1929), in which a small figurative form, like a kernel, floats through the womb-like bowl of an amphora, speaks to Brancusi's curled-up ovoid "The Newborn (Version I)" (1920). The Shape of Things
But a miser is the mirror image of a miner—what the miner digs up, the miser at least figuratively, and sometimes literally buries right back in the ground. More Sex Is Safer Sex
My figurative sisters were beaten, denigrated, unlistened to, and pushed to the edges. Fucking Friday: Bitch. | Mind on Fire
Another characteristic of the semantics of slang is the tendency to name things indirectly and figuratively, especially through metaphor, metonymy, and irony.
The gallery specialises in contemporary figurative and landscape paintings. Times, Sunday Times
All these restrictions suggest that the country's newfound "sovereign "status is more figurative than literal.
She can help Annie develop habits and inclinations that offset her heedlessness or her lack of sympathy, such as the habit of cleaning up her messes literally and figuratively, of apologizing, and of righting the wrongs she has done. Red Flags or Red Herrings?
In some of the sculptures Holley is more explicitly figurative, bending wires into semblances of human profiles or, in at least one case, painting a head on an assemblage element.
When I was there they were very much into minimalism, and they felt that figurative work was illustration, not art.
The paddling pool was re-built incorporating figurative features and lots of bright colour.
The bust was sculpted by internationally-renowned figurative artist Ian Walters.
By figuratively occupying the position of the canonical American author, he denaturalizes associations of ‘whiteness’ with universal notions of literary authority and value.
‘Lateral thinking’ would be helped, too, by the neural arrangement in the right brain—the sideways extension of axons even makes the phrase literal rather than figurative. Mind Wide Open
One style features figurative paintings that capture her fascination with flowers and equines in the old Chinese style of T'ang horses and sweeping panoramas of koi fish in their ponds.
The nonfigurative art of the twentieth century is strikingly forecast in CHANCE IMAGES
Philosophical and aesthetic arguments justifying non-figurative art left Minton unconvinced.
In Fugitive Days Ayers uses the word moorings on two occasions, both times figuratively but precisely, as with, “in time words lost their moorings and floated away.” Deconstructing Obama
A figurative pat on the head is worthless if youthful naivete is allowed to grow and flourish in a delusive psyche.
In poetry, this part of the chia is alluded to in a highly figurative manner. Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese
In Hammett's novel, the Flitcraft episode disrupts the diegesis both literally, by inserting extraneous material into the ‘plot,’ and figuratively, by exposing the instability of all narratives.
For revolutionary syndicalists, the development of a mass workers movement where the organizations and struggles are "self-managed" by the workers themselves is "prefigurative" of a society self-managed by the working class. Anarchist news dot org - Comments
When he painted figuratively, he rarely painted a specific person—it was always a condition, a feeling, or a state.
Plenty of people are "married to their jobs" in a figurative sense.
I decided to change tack - figuratively and literally - so I re-evaluated the kitchenalia that I hanker for and hoard. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
If we read Polidori's figurative vampirism as something more than self-pity, his "imposture" is less postmodern playfulness than it is something far more sinister--the "glamour of imposture" as something poisonous to both the performer and the performed. The Little Professor:
The Mays seem to like oils by contemporary figurative artists who paint street scenes and landscapes in a rather Victorian way. Times, Sunday Times
The power of the metaphor, simile, parallel... figurative language is not only a good way to put things into perspective, but metaphors are easier to remember than a complex set of interactions.
Her medium and subject matter flew in the face of traditional figurative aesthetics, feminist proprieties, and postmodernist biases, all at once.
Here the last vestiges of the figurative, a few delicately poised hands, flowers and shells, are subsumed into patterned and highly coloured surfaces of glazes, scumbles, impasto, sgraffito, stipples, dots and splodges of paint.
Duncan creates elegant female forms and her work is figurative, though not representational.
Has photography rendered figurative art pointless? Times, Sunday Times
Arp's painted-wood bas-relief "La Femme-amphore" (1929), in which a small figurative form, like a kernel, floats through the womb-like bowl of an amphora, speaks to Brancusi's curled-up ovoid "The Newborn (Version I)" (1920). The Shape of Things
The students are taught to swim with their heads, figuratively speaking.
Where he is abstract and geometric, she is figurative and expressionist.
‘Remove the human and you get dehumanized art,’ he declared in a 1994 interview, responding to a question about the viability of nonfigurative art.
The art of urban wall painting is a way of reclaiming lost territory - in both a literal and a figurative sense.
By varying the colours of the weft the weaver creates a pattern or figurative image, generally copied from a full-scale design known as the cartoon.
Martinned: Yes, the indicting magistrate is on the left, but according to the Economist the complainants are members of far right organizations with a vested interest in avoiding digging into the past (figuratively and literally). The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Baltazar Garzón Indicted

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