Sentence examples for figurative discourse from inspiring English sources

Yablo's view would be congenial to the Quinean project if it were possible to make out the line between literal and figurative discourse: Quine's ontologically serious discourse could then be identified with thoroughly literal discourse, assertively uttered.

The findings show differential hemispheric sensitivity to these aspects of figurative language, and are relevant to models of the functional cortical architecture of language processing in connected discourse.

Figurative, surely.

"It wasn't figurative.

Some folk discourse.

Less discourse.

He started figurative, surreal-satirical.

Figurative and fantastic.

Is figurative art blasphemy?

I'm figurative.

She was being figurative.