Sentence examples for literal representation from inspiring English sources

He avoided literal representation, because he said he could not really draw well.

When it comes to summoning the ineffable, metaphor almost always wins over literal representation.

And its continuous line is a literal representation of his pencil sketch, he said.

He was keen to get into the "fantasy" of the work and away from literal representation.

The paradox of such literal representation may be part of Price and Pirie's point.

In fact, he explains, things are always more complicated, and this isn't a literal representation of his family.

But most are not literal representations of things or events.

He tended to avoid literal representations in his work, preferring instead to emphasize quietly lyrical abstract design.

To understand which types of EPIs generate the most empathy, we vary them in two dimensions: (1) metaphorical versus literal representations and (2) animal scenes versus environmental scenes.

The selection of 70 works on view avoids literal representations of 9/11; in fact, most of the work was created prior to that day.

Images of walls scarred by bullet holes and houses half-razed to the ground are displayed alongside less literal representations of violence.