Sentence examples for special figures from inspiring English sources

Oratory was, and still is, an important traditional art; good orators were expected to make mythological and historical allusions and to use special figures of speech.

Here the tension is between a world in which journalists considered themselves – and were perhaps considered by others – special figures of authority.

He says that in the recent past journalists considered themselves – and were perhaps considered by others – special figures of authority: "We had the information and the access; you didn't.

The special figures figure skating event was only contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

You can have special figures, such as an officer and a standard bearer (the soldier carrying the flag) on a base.

MUJI wants people to check in at its stores and create their own virtual shelves of products, books, CDs and DVDs, earning virtual coins and "special limited figures" for their efforts.

Yet he remains "a very special figure" in Chinese history, Mr. Fang said.

During the torch lighting, a special figure skating program is scheduled on the ice rink at Mirror Lake.

"He's special and has earned his way, and certainly is a special figure in the Orange Bowl, with all of his great games here," Stoops said.

Carswell spoke out after the prime minister said he saw no need to appoint a special figure to renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership.

Both the Old Testament and the New Testament are rich in simile, metaphor, and personification and in the special figure of Hebrew poetry, parallelism.