Price, by contrast, awards his characters great figurative powers, endows them with an ability to take everyone's clichés and customize them into something gleaming and fresh.
The flag also has figurative powers; its fluttering is like a wave to the wayward golfer that beseeches, "This way, over here".
This combination of figurative and factual power is something that all creative artists aspire to - which helps to explain why one of the best-known myths, the story of Orpheus, should have been so often retold through the centuries.
I'll never forget the day when the figurative baton of power and decision-making passed from my mother to me.
Once the Anglo-European war becomes real rather than figurative, Sutherland loses his power.
As its title suggests, "Consuming Spirits" is both about the power of (figurative) ghosts and the literal effects of drunkenness.
But we do have to take into account the overall context let us say "speaker's intention," tātparya it is stressed (e.g., by Annambhaṭṭa: 294 295), in some cases of ambiguity as also of figurative speech, which involves a second power of words, the power (śakti) to express meaning indirectly.
Headline writers have to be careful to apply the verb to a power, using the figurative sense, and not to military forces made up of people, seeming to take the original sense.
Like saying "I love you," figurative language loses much of its power if used incessantly.
Long neglected, she is now hailed for the technical brilliance and emotional power of her graphics and figurative and abstract sculptures.
