Sentence examples for figurative of from inspiring English sources
"figurative of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used to describe something that is symbolic or representative of something else. Example: "The red rose in the painting was figurative of the character's passionate and romantic nature."
There is a scatological leitmotif in this narrative, morally figurative of the Nazi ambience.
Consider the relative costs, literal and figurative, of anti-smoking campaigns versus smoking-cessation programs versus lung-cancer treatment.
"In painting as in music and literature," she wrote, "what is called abstract so often seems to me the figurative of a more delicate and difficult reality, less visible to the naked eye".
Allen Ginsberg's odyssey of subways, Benzedrine, spilt brains, bare buttocks, and easy lays proved grist to the mill of its defenders, who argued that this nightmare world reflected this author's rage and loneliness, and was figurative of America itself on the verge of breakdown.
The dopiness (literal and figurative) of the sequence gives way to the hecticness of the hospital — a bike messenger is rushed in on a stretcher after an accident, and the E.R. doctor, Fitch Cooper Peter Facinellii, who might as well be called John Carter here, so uncannily does he resemble "E.R". 's Noah Wyle), disagrees with her recommended course of action.
In my considered opinion, the juxtaposition of majuscule and minuscule in a personal name may be safely indulged as a prerogative of the human being, with all his individual strangeness, but to extend the same license to the fruits, literal and figurative, of human labor is another matter.
Many School of Visual Arts alumni were prospering, among them Elizabeth Peyton, part of the crop of popular figurative painters of the early 1990s.
Incongruity was taken as indication of the figurative nature of an expression.
Graphical Abstract Figurative representation of the comparison of AgNPs and AgPyNPs in macrophage RAW264.7 cells in terms of cytotoxicity and immune response.
Twitter is a sort of public diary; figurative scraps of paper.
Among those artists who stand out are Cynthia Consentino, Tim Roda, Becca Broughton and Elise Siegel, all of whom make figurative art of one sort or another.
