Sentences with phrase «figurative sense of»

It's a journey, in the more figurative sense of the word, of one Korean dog's transition from facing a future as meat (if that can be called a future) to life as an American pet.

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There's a war going on for control of the world, in a figurative sense.

It simply means we determine objective (over figurative or culturally and historically conditioned) based on common sense and the knowledge we have of culture, history, authorship, etc..

But as we understand Whitehead, the passage from the indeterminacy of the initial phases of concrescence, through the intermediate phases to the final phase, satisfaction, is a process which concretizes or actualizes the occasion itself, and the occasion is not actual until the process is complete.9 If so, the indeterminacy of the earlier phases of concrescence is a radical or absolute indeterminacy inconsistent with the passage of time, for there is nothing as yet actual for which time could pass; thus, concrescence is a process in a metaphorical or figurative sense, and this is why Whitehead associates concrescence with creativity, calling creativity the Category of the Ultimate, meaning that though it is used to explain all else, it is not explicable.

When aunt Sally says that the children are so cute she «could just eat them up» we know that usually «eat» means a literal consuming but in this sense just points out the figurative attractiveness of adorable children.

The rule of thumb is «assume literal, but if literal makes no sense, then it's figurative.»

Or, if the Dispersion is meant in a figurative sense, to all the Christians outside of Palestine?

Criticism may smile indulgently at the palpable deception in the claim that this was given to Moses at Sinai along with the Torah, but if we would read the meaning of figurative language, it is apparent that this was but an expression of the sense of a pervasive natural law: the religious impulse and revelation with which the name of Moses was associated was too great to embody itself in written form — not even the Torah was adequate; but it reposed ultimately in the divine impress upon the heart of man.

A reasoned argument on Twitter is an oxymoron I think,» says Sarah Wollaston, sipping a one - shot cappuccino, fresh (in a figurative sense) from a barrage of online abuse.

Not courageous in the figurative or literal sense is John Cameron Mitchell's histrionics lesson Rabbit Hole, wherein a couple, Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart), endures the first months of loss after their only child dies in a tragic street - crossing accident.

While geo - specifically Canadian, and working within a coloniality of power that I often felt obliged to critique, I think my identity growing up in Canada was more mobile than nationalist, if not badly mangled, bleeding through the figurative membranes of its Canadian - ness, as something that was always already foreign to itself, as I really didn't have a sense of what it meant to be a Canadian but at the same time I tried to account for the people I met and the ideas I encountered in the context of living a life in the service of something larger than one's nation state, trying to understand what it meant to be of service to society.

At least 8 lessons worth of resources to support the teaching of creative writing (narrative and descriptive) and take stimulus from the following texts / events: - Castaway - The London riots - The Edge These resources provide opportunities to: - Describe using the senses - watch clips from Castaway and use as a stimulus for own writing - up level vocabulary - identify figurative and use in own writing - develop characterisation - develop narrative structure - assess against GCSE criteria - create tension and suspense

Research over the past decade has revealed that making sense out of figurative language is a bit more complicated than that.

Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams - not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.

I sincerely hope none of our readers are playing with fire, either in the literal sense or in the figurative sense with debt.

Carrying excessive consumer debt is not only a burden in the figurative sense, it weighs on many aspects of daily living.

While fans have been pulling their hair out and literally (in the figurative sense, of course) bringing GameStop's system to its knees, Nintendo is going full speed ahead with new Super Mario, Splatoon, and Yarn Yoshi versions of the hit figures.

The real charm in Oxenfree is the character development and like the majority of great horror films, Oxenfree explores the theme of isolation, both in a literal sense and in a figurative sense.

At the same time I have a real love of figurative artists who construct their pictures with a sense of rigor: Piero, or more recently Euan Uglow or Balthus.

Society's obsession with female beauty is undeniable, but the beauty presented in advertising is two - dimensional in the figurative as well as the literal sense, airbrushed and Photoshopped to oblivion and usually devoid of all but the most basic emotion (Wow, that model's really happy with her new mascara!).

Sean Mahan is a social realist figurative painter who works with graphite and acrylic washes on wood to depict a sense of wonder about the innate warmth of the human character and its conflict with structures of power and control.

Representing a stylistic transformation from his previous figurative practice to monumental geometric abstractions, these pieces capture a sense of the Ocean Park community of Southern California where the artist created them between 1967 and 1988.

How to make sense of a show of painterly, figurative art in 2016 is part of the fun when taking in On Painting.

This June, visitors to Ameringer McEnery Yohe gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan, are confronted with a sea of blues, both literal and figurative, and a strong sense of nostalgia for summers spent by the sea.

Early figurative drawings and woodcuts, some done when the artist served in the Peace Corps, in Africa, bore witness to the acute sense of observation and refinement of means that still characterize his art, while pointing to the resonant economy of his mature works.

Well known and admired for her internet - era busts of figures seeming to emerge from abstract matrices, Sascha Braunig has recently evolved to paint full portraits as well as these kinds of truncated figurative studies, which create an alluring and elegant sense of mystery.

I have no sense that this is «abstracted from» anything, yet it does have some connections to picture - making and composition that I think of as «figurative» even within the larger frame of abstraction.

Yet from the mini-survey of his often klutzy - looking figurative paintings on view in «Cher Peintre,» I sensed a full - tilt Kippenberger retrospective might be in the offing at the Pompidou, and Gingeras has said, in fact, she would like to do such a show.

The gallery becomes a landscape in which various objects, particularly figurative objects, are isolated in small groupings to create a heightened sense of interaction between them.

Wrestled into figurative forms that evoked a sense of wonder, artwork was presented in a solo exhibition held from June 5 to July 17 at Dowling College's The Anthony Giordano Gallery in Oakdale.

Somehow rooted in nature yet seemingly devoid of any figurative form, Untitled XXV articulates a landscape brought alive with a sense of the human through the length, scale, form and emotive power of de Kooning's vigorous brushwork.

For the works featured in And Debris, Shepherd departs in many ways from her previous work, which has been primarily rational and figurative, with an overall sense of stability.

Her fluid and deliberately disintegrating painting style is carried out on a scale that boldly distorts the familiar figurative elements of her work, and serves to heighten the sense of the physicality of paint and the process of painting itself.

Where there's little modeling in work by Leon Golub and George Cohen, Lerner's paintings and drawings have always had a sense of volume, and his work since the 1970s has continued to tap similar mythic and metaphorical material (mummies, hanged or tortured figures) but in a more classical figurative style.

In The Moon Woman, a single figure strides, upright, imposing, with a sense of energy; five years later, however, in Alchemy, Pollock pours this motion (and emotion) directly on to the canvas, without the need for a figurative go - between.

However, the images are not figurative and each embody a sense of abstraction which blocks the viewer from gazing directly onto the horrific scenes, leaving only clues to piece together an otherwise fragmented narrative.

Belgian artist, Michaël Borremans, creates mystery on the canvas through figurative painting, filing inanimate objects with a sense of humanity, and obscuring the life from any human forms.

Guerrero Z. Habulan is a figurative artist born in Philippines, a young social realist with a sharp sense of humor.

Superimposing intricate networks of lines, dots and planes of colour, with recurring figurative motifs such as doors, windows, aeroplanes, railway tracks and fragments of the human form, Bernard Cohen creates dizzying arrangements, within which an internal sense of order is revealed to the viewer gradually over time.

Figurative Geometry, placed within Collezione Maramotti's headquarters, represents a balance between stillness and oxymoronic provocation, creating an intriguing sense of suspension.

This was the context in which Kitaj developed as an artist, and although his art may be associated with the trends in figurative painting and British pop art, the most important influence on his art was a sense of not belonging, Diaspora, spawning an oeuvre in which symbols and references of visual, literary, historic and personal origin are brought together into colourful, narrative and complex compositions.

Taking its cue from the resurgence of figurative sculpture in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and from Sigmund Freud's essay «The Uncanny» (1919), the exhibition brings together mannequin - related art works, mostly from the 1960s onwards, with objects from disparate cultural contexts that engender a similar sense of unease in the viewer: medical dolls, anatomical waxworks, religious statues, pagan figurines, ventriloquists» dummies, sex dolls, taxidermy and so on.

With its pale pink blushes, glowing ochres and delicate blue and green stains, we're not invited to read this huge canvas, painted when she was just 23, as one depicting nature exactly, but, like Pollock, there is a sense of the elusively figurative, the organic and the primordial.

Throughout his studies, Fomenko diminishes his figurative painting and increases the abstractness of the objects that often resemble illustrations of masterpieces that depict his heroine's Picasso, Tizan or Rembrand, which collectively attain unique craftsmanship and a sense of humour.

The human component has the most notable impact in the work Convergence # 3 (2011), which uses geometry to create a sense of posture in the work, thereby imparting a memorable sense of figurative portrayal.

Ron Mueck's skill lies in the creation of figurative sculptures that appear to be real, in a sense that they are made of flesh and blood, but moreover, have presence in a profoundly individual way.

Early in his career Scully made figurative work to which he still feels indebted: «To this day my paintings retain a sense of the body, and the feeling of a physical relationship with the world.»

Raedecker creates haunting paintings — landscapes, abstract and figurative, sometimes a bit of both — with the use of oils and thread and gothic colors imbued with a sense of the spiritual and the humorous.

Leveille: I speak in a language of pictures.In a similar way that contemporary figurative painters such as Currin, Kerry James Marshall, and Robin Francis Williams use a sense narrative, I also use it as an artistic tool.This is very inspiring in its own right to me, the exploration of an image, not in service TO narrative but that employs these things as tools to make an emotional connection with the viewer.

Tuck writes: «There is a freemasonry of painting among figurative painters — and I mean the term in the metaphoric sense of a secret club as well as the sense of a guild of highly developed craftsmen, for great skill is required to observe and render the body.