Sentence examples for recognized figures from inspiring English sources

Various other kinds of figurative reinterpretation are exhibited in various other recognized figures of speech: metonymy (This policy covers you from the cradle to the grave), irony (You're a fine friend), hyperbole (loud enough to wake the dead), and so on.

The "Top Scot" honor has tended to go to recognized figures like J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame and Susan Boyle, she of the golden vocal cords.

CAIRO — Egypt's new military-led government enlisted internationally recognized figures to serve as its public face and promised swift elections on Tuesday, but introduced a transitional plan that was widely criticized as muddled, authoritarian and rushed.

Mr. Redgrave was a less celebrated performer than his father, who was known for his Shakespearean eloquence, matinee idol good looks and turbulent personal life; or his sisters, who became internationally recognized figures, as glamorous as they were accomplished.

Conceived and assembled by Laura Kaminsky, a composer and the associate artistic director of Symphony Space, the event touched on universally recognized figures like Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Penderecki and Ligeti as well as major creators who came to international renown as the cold war waned, like Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Henryk Gorecki and Arvo Pärt.

It has attracted more philosophical interest and provoked more philosophical controversy than any of the other traditionally recognized figures of speech.

The traditionally recognized figures in this school included Gongsun Long and Hui Shi Zhuangzi's close friend and most frequent direct philosophical discussant.

By the time Quintilian and Cicero come along, metaphor is one of many distinct recognized figures of speech, and a self-explanatory terminological transfer counts as metaphorical only if it is based on a real or supposed analogy or likeness between the regular referent and the special temporary one.