Examples of figurative

• But in this instance, the allusion is purely figurative.

• The transgressions that representation licenses are predicated on the representational - that is, figurative - nature of those transgressions.

• Casting aside figurative painting, the visual artists tended to embrace installation art and irony.

• These could well be useful to researchers interested in figurative language.

• However, the figurative, or programmatic, music of the previous century tried to bring into the concert all stylised birds, storms and galloping horses.

• Thus, the traditional view cannot account for the fact that context actually facilitates initial comprehension of figurative language.

• This forms the basis of the radius of creativity - a figurative space demonstrating the range of the likely creative possibles of an individual agent.

• The kind of topic transition with which the production of a figurative expression is associated in our corpus occurs in 4:27-33.

• Just what that organized practice, and what activities figurative expressions may be employed to perform in conversation, is the focus of this inquiry.

• Recipients' minimal agreements in response to the figurative summaries (sympathy tokens, etc.) conjoin those substantive and procedural agreements.

• To those who supported the ideals of state socialism and who worked in figurative styles this was not a problem.

• Constituting a new nation and defining its culture meant, among other things, mapping its figurative geography, delineating the nation's boundaries.

• Beyond this, we can ask what figurative sculpture gave abstract architects, and why they used it.

• One is the focus on the figurative content of landscape art in relation to wider cultural discourses.

• The next three chapters are concerned with various forms of figurative language including metaphors and similes, idioms, and proverbs.