figurative language. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It took me awhile to grasp that you meant slaughtered English in figurative terms. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » White House In Disarray: Contradicting Snow, Gonzales Says Bush Opposes Making English The National Language] Reference
Needless to say, in giving the term a figurative meaning as well, locals take up the challenge admirably. From Wordnik.com. [ETravelBlackboard.com] Reference
Namely, loan can’t be used in figurative contexts. From Wordnik.com. [loan is a verb! « Motivated Grammar] Reference
The only difference between the verbs loan and lend is that loan can’t be used in figurative senses. From Wordnik.com. [loan is a verb! « Motivated Grammar] Reference
FDL they've started a "Sarah Palin Goodbye Watch", but really, shouldn't it be called a figurative "death watch"?. From Wordnik.com. [Connecticut Bob] Reference
So, though this chapter is to be concerned with the substance, I eschew the word, and choose for my title a figurative phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences] Reference
Also fig. or in figurative context. From Wordnik.com. [Just To Show I Didn’t Make It Up…….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
But also the tools, such as figurative stamps to make the moulds were found. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Potter's Quarter Report 3] Reference
Johnf: is it maybe some kind of figurative non-rude double-entendre - the mouth as a 'gate'?. From Wordnik.com. ["Gates of Hell" rap by Akalyte] Reference
He is of course not a genius, it’s called figurative speech. From Wordnik.com. [BitTorrent Raises $25 million, Bram Cohen is History] Reference
Most of these "figurative" things tend to seem at least a tad creepy. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
No one in the art world calls themselves a "figurative" or "abstract" painter. From Wordnik.com. [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference
I’m glad you are still to some extent what I think is called a figurative painter. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
She has repeated that "figurative" statement on numerous occasions to defend her "foreign policy experience"!. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
Could it be some sort of figurative or metaphorical bus?. From Wordnik.com. [My Turn Online: Next Stop, My Calling] Reference
I grew up with figurative painting vs. abstract painting. From Wordnik.com. [Brilliance Or Bust] Reference
Jerome, however, doesn't miss a beat-literally or figurative. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Woke Up as Bo Diddley] Reference
I hate contemporary figurative painting more than anybody else does. From Wordnik.com. [Brilliance Or Bust] Reference
And I know 14-year-old boys, literal and figurative, are easily amused. From Wordnik.com. [Good Brands Focus And Deliver] Reference
In one installation someone melted all the soldiers down to figurative stumps. From Wordnik.com. [Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: War On Apathy: Street Artist General Howe] Reference
Unless you're Stephen Colbert, it's a big jump from figurative pitchforks to literal ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Of Populism Walks Again — Again] Reference
She was not making a figurative point about Obama's inflated sense of himself as some kind of deity. From Wordnik.com. [Sharron Angle camp clarifies "First Commandment" claim: Obama thinks he's "all powerful"] Reference
Now it's figurative painting vs. everything else -- abstraction and installation art, video art, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Brilliance Or Bust] Reference
You still hear the same ole complaint from figurative painters: a supposed conspiracy oppressing them. From Wordnik.com. [Brilliance Or Bust] Reference
Rivers bucked the abstract tide of the 1950s and revivified figurative painting as serious modern art. From Wordnik.com. [Rivers Runs Through It] Reference
Since the early Aughts, when his work was primarily abstract, he has moved in a more figurative direction. From Wordnik.com. [Sharon L. Butler: The Language of Experience: For Farrell Brickhouse, Painting Is a Lifelong Process] Reference
Freud, widely viewed as the most important figurative painter at work today, is 82 and still at the top of his game. From Wordnik.com. [BLOCKBUSTERS: FOLLOWING THE CROWDS] Reference
He does large abstractions with the energy and prolificness of an enfant terrible on a mission to overthrow figurative art. From Wordnik.com. [Looking Back At Richter] Reference
If Afros symbolized militancy, dreads signal a more spiritual self-declaration, a figurative locking with African ancestors. From Wordnik.com. [Law: The Dreadlock Deadlock] Reference
I've always felt that figurative painting is doing just fine, thank you, outside of a couple of art bars in SoHo and Chelsea. From Wordnik.com. [Brilliance Or Bust] Reference
I'm using "mythology" in a positive sense, meaning symbolic or figurative, not in the common dismissal of "myth" as falsehood. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL AND CORRECTION: FROM THE PASSION TO THE] Reference
Ten years ago, there was no Amazon (OK, I just checked and Amazon was founded in 1994, so let's just accept a figurative ten years). From Wordnik.com. [Catherine McKenzie: Should Authors Check Their Amazon Rankings? Uh, No] Reference
Although there's usually a figurative image in Murray's work -- or a stage-whisper of one -- the painting itself is always the thing. From Wordnik.com. [Coloring Outside the Lines] Reference
Secondly, ... discouraging future criminals from crossing the border, acting as a figurative wall of apprehension and malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [William K. Black: Why the Ferocity of Attacks on the Bridge Builders?] Reference
As the small, speedy vessels known as personal watercraft (PWCs) swarm bays and lakes, run-ins both literal and figurative are soaring. From Wordnik.com. [A Battle On The High Seas] Reference
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