"physical imagery" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the use of descriptive words and phrases to create a vivid and tangible image in the reader's mind. It can be used in various contexts, such as literature, poetry, or even in everyday language when describing a scene or person. Example: The author's use of physical imagery, such as the scorching heat of the sun and the gritty sand beneath their feet, transported the reader to the arid desert they were traversing.
Physical imagery from this experience coloured his writing (the dried-up and discoloured swimming pools were something he saw in Shanghai).
It mines the primeval darkness of life and death in harrowing theatrical physical imagery yet is also capable of the dramatic equivalent of raucous, often bawdy laughter.
The work was so dryly formal, so classroom-exercise, so workshop-earnest that imaginative association or physical imagery never breached the stage.
In this style, which is rich in powerful physical imagery, the inner life of the Christian is described; body and soul are so involved that it is impossible to separate bodily from mental suffering in the description of his temptations.
Mr. Bourne's talent for expressing theatrical ideas through physical imagery was clearly evident in the most provocative move in his "Swan Lake": a reversal of the idea, central to the ballet, of the swan as an image of femininity.
LONDON — Matthew Bourne, the British choreographer, achieved worldwide fame when he put a corps de ballet of male, sexually alluring swans onstage in his 1995 reworking of "Swan Lake," a brilliant expression of his ability to use physical imagery in the service of theater, and a rereading of the famous classical work that gripped audiences everywhere.
These works painstakingly recreate Kahlo's indigenous costumes, physical wounds, religious imagery and evocations of tropical flora and fauna.
So does "House of Cards" (1981), in which the Charleston and other 1920s social dances share the stage with sequences of physical collapse and imagery of a bizarre female authority figure, who seems by turns a great lady of 1920s society or Liberty (as in the Statue of) or the Mother of Us All.
Nov. 5 at 7 and Nov. 6-8 at 8). "LES SEPT PLANCHES DE LA RUSE" / COMPAGNIE 111 The French choreographer and director Aurélien Bory's work is described as "nouveau cirque," a genre that combines physical theatre, poetic imagery, acrobatics, and dance.
I have never enjoyed a situation where a person is legally required to remain in the hospital or take medication against their wishes, and despite popular belief and imagery, physical restraints are very much a last resort.
We speculate that having one's own non-verbal, non-linear experience of physical activity through imagery, both mentally and kinesthetically, decreased resistance and increased acceptance to the idea of being physically active, ultimately leading to behavioral change.
