Sentence examples for figures of thought from inspiring English sources

The Transformation of Nature in Art (1934) and Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought (1946) are collections of essays expressing his views on the relationship of art to life, traditional art, and the ideological parallels between the arts of the East and the pre-Renaissance West.

Stackpole also sculpted figures of "Thought" on the columns flanking the half domes of the west facade of the Palace Group.

The rhetorical figures of thought and speech were mastered until they became instinctive.

The Angevin kings and their Aragonese successors attracted to Naples great figures of Italian thought and literature and the northern architects and artists whose genius survives in many Gothic and Renaissance monuments.

He was, as Howard Wilkinson said, "a zealot", a fussy, rather pompous figure, unsubtle of thought, and intolerant of any criticism.

And yet even those offering the most recondite reconsiderations — Heidegger, for supreme example, or Derrida — have been forced to acknowledge the tormenting historical questions that inevitably drag the most tragic figure of modern thought back down to earth.

One of the great figures of contemporary Japanese thought, Shuichi Kato, who died in 2008, speaking of atomic bombs and nuclear reactors, recalled a line from "The Pillow Book," written a thousand years ago by a woman, Sei Shonagon, in which the author evokes "something that seems very far away but is, in fact, very close".

He is a lonely, if imposing, figure in the history of thought.

Equally surprising was his reference to the Zahiri erudite Ibn Hazm (a respected figure but whose school of thought is marginal) to raise the issue of Islam and rationality.

Is this a symbol of fatigue, the figure burdened by the weight of thought?

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles.