Sentence examples for figurative term from inspiring English sources

The figurative term 'ANC channel' may be illustrated by comparison with a creek lined by reed beds expanding into the water and not in the sense of a waterway clearly separated from the 'mainland' by a concrete embankment.

Not a goat in figurative terms but a real goat, Clay Henry III.

Walton said Suton, whose nickname is G, sometimes lacks what is called, in figurative terms, a killer instinct.

The Chinese language is extremely difficult, mixing ancient and figurative terms – elegant phrasing can be hard and sometimes words and names bear no relevance to the context.

All told, they sum up in figurative terms the less-is-more simplicity of the Wiener Werkstätte designers, and reflect an empathic understanding of female sexuality that easily exceeded Freud's.

"The character of David is very sexy in both the literal and figurative terms," said Robert Alter, an author and a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

A boy with one eye sees the world differently from everyone else, but it didn't take long for Mike Burry to see his literal distinction in more figurative terms.

Buddhist tradition itself differentiates between the Sūtrānta and Abhidharma methods of instructing the teachings by contrasting the Sūtrānta "way of putting things" in partial, figurative terms that require further clarification, versus the Abhidharma exposition and catechism that expound the teachings fully, in non-figurative terms (A IV 449 456; Dhs-a 154).

His fate was sealed by what is usually understood in figurative terms, a train wreck.

Hicks-Jenkins' painting has been described as figurative, a term now encompassing any form of modern art characterized by references to the real world.

For Aristotle, writing in the middle of the fourth century BCE, the figurative redeployment of term counts as a metaphor regardless of precisely how the term's usual referent and its special temporary referent are related (Poetics 21 1457b ff. See also Rhetoric 3.2 1404b-1505b, 3.4 1406b–1407a, 3.10 11 1410b–1413.10 11