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If the fans begged for a response, Kidd would deliver it only with his play, the figurative effect of a finger placed to his lips, hushing the arena.
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This set is heavy on figurative steroids: in effect, Williams and his 11-piece band – including Guy Chambers, co-writer of his imperial-phase hits, on piano – presented a collection of the singer's best set pieces, which add up to a pretty formidable 90 minutes of pop.
Use figurative language for effect.
Use figurative language for effect, not as a rule.
To identify regions responsive to the figurative cue, the main effect of Face (Fig. 2 c) was tested using the contrast (Real-time Self + Delayed Self) – (Real-time Other + Delayed Other).
Improper supposition is in effect metaphorical or figurative reference.
For the latter regions, the region-of-interest analysis was performed on the Self Other contrast under the Static condition to examine whether the effect of the figurative cue was dependent on facial motion.
Use figurative language sparingly, but for effect.
As its title suggests, "Consuming Spirits" is both about the power of (figurative) ghosts and the literal effects of drunkenness.
Tenebrism, in the history of Western painting, the use of extreme contrasts of light and dark in figurative compositions to heighten their dramatic effect.
The terms he analysed weren't especially forceful: even the kinds of entrenched metaphors that we barely notice as figurative language could have a tangible effect.
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