Sentence examples for was figured as from inspiring English sources
More usually, the triumph of the sciences over the arts was figured as the defeat of the ancients by the moderns: the head of the U.S. Patent Office declared the steamship "a mightier epic" than the Iliad, and any fool could see that James Watt had a thing or two on Cicero.
Reading novels and how-to guides of the mid-1800'sheshe observes the way "mother" and "home" came to stand in for each other -- how motherhood was figured as a sheltering structure analogous to, and then identical with, a home itself, the place where mothers inscribed their nurturing values on society.
The powerful size of the pore was figured as the mean distances across of scaffold pores.
Cell proliferation capability was figured as absorbency at 570 nm.
Then, the average of the TUNEL-positive photoreceptor cell densities from three sections was figured as the representative TUNEL-positive photoreceptor cell density of the eye.
But really it is about the new politics of youth - where politics is figured as melodrama.
The Mason-Dixon Line could be figured as a North American Iron Curtain.
In Carson's work, this poverty is figured as a form of unexpected wealth.
The down payment is figured as a percentage of the total cost of the project (land and construction costs).
(61) —In a Cars.com ad, a man's "confidence" (which is figured as some sort of conjoined-twin head) sings amateurish R&B.
The book's unstable symbolism extends to the asylum, which is figured as a desert paradise, a prison and, controversially, the state of Israel itself.
