Sentence examples for literal figures from inspiring English sources

"If they were literal figures, life-size and made in bronze, then I think they would fall short as sculpture," he says.

But the Jesus of Christianity presents some challenges in being understood as a literal figure within history.

Dressed in unassuming civilian wear, he could stand in as (literal) father figure for a child who has lost his parents in the museum.

It took me literal years to figure out Santa didn't write that one for me and my parents did it to disguise the fact that they hadn't had much money for presents that year.

One promising suggestion is that it can be very difficult to distinguish figurative from literal content, particularly when the figures employed have little presentational force.

There was also the odd over-literal translation to figure out.

Moreover, despite the presence of URIs and literals in the figure, the partitioning covers only blank nodes.

The fablelike opening and closing passages, of homeless "cave dwellers" on the shore, depicts these itinerant outcasts as figures of legend, literal castaways who "come from the sea".

"The figures are not literal," she said.

As the boy of the poems becomes a young man, Jones tries to get away from literal violence, embracing instead forceful figures for a welcome erotic appetite.

Presuming that the Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is figured as a literal place on the record, this could well be the song that introduces us to its residents – like a montage in song form, showing the listener around every grimy nook and cranny of this new, metaphorical universe, with Turner's huge capacity for description on full show.