Sentence examples for figurative terms from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The discourse of being above the utterly disastrous social conditions of a society being depleted by its own government and left to suffer at the hands of transnational maquiladoras and border patrols is a rhetoric available only for elite and white (in figurative racial terms) people.

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

As a result, he was often called a Figurative Expressionist; the term applied to midcentury Expressionists whose work was not strictly abstract.