Sentences with phrase «just figures of speech»

They are just figures of speech!»

Dehumanizing metaphors are more than just figures of speech; they affect our thoughts and behavior.

You sound like he only saw it based on faith, as if it was just a figure of speech.

That's just a figure of speech.

Before Apollo 8, «space travel» was just a figure of speech; they were the first astronauts to actually go somewhere.

Well, the above is not just a figure of speech as Acer is indeed accepting fresh orders for its flagship tablet after the first round sold out within days.

No, that's not just a figure of speech.

It's not just a figure of speech, and usually life's brevity takes us by surprise.

(That is not just a figure of speech; Miyamoto literally called out another developer for designing a Mario Maker stage like that.)

I think the comment about boots over their knees was just a figure of speech.

She is old enough (beg pardon Judith — just a figure of speech) and has been around the block (sorry again) enough times to be able to look after herself.

This may be true, but it's disheartening to think that being the better choice amongst horrendous choices somehow equals a smart choice (unless «smart choice» is just a figure of speech).

I think that's just a figure of speech.

My point is you are in «good company» (not a value judgment — just a figure of speech) if you felt underwhelmed by this... or even threatened.

The Miami Marlins plan to carry a small piece of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High with them before their first game of spring training, and that's not just a figure of speech.

This isn't just a figure of speech anymore; it's reality.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, but less likely, Jesus may also have been using a natural hyperbole (exaggeration), a common figure of speech used in discourse, the same way many Westerners will say, «I am starving» when they are just hungry, or «I'm freezing» when they are just cold.

Purity of heart: it is a figure of speech that compares the heart to the sea, and why just to this?

This is an old post, but we will continue debating it till someone believe that Christ was not using figure of speeches or just quoting other scripts.

Again, just to cite a single example, the practice of formulating fixed and stereotyped figures of speech, already reflected to a lesser degree in the Himayana scriptures, becomes here a kind of codification of a quantity of rigid formulas which seem to threaten all life with suffocation.

Just a friendly update from California that I have now spent my fifth day working on contacting all of the big free speech legal advocates in Canada and the United States (and those important organizations in Europe as well) about this story and the entire issue of Free Speech (which these public figure pastors in the U.S. who are nationally known want to silence).

I'm not saying I'm a sensation, just as a figure of speech.

Louise Bruce, then the mother of three beautiful children, two of whom were born with cerebral palsy, limited vision and speech, and the corresponding delays, was trying to figure out just how to make it all come together.

Just hours ahead of the prime minister's keynote speech to the Tory party conference, official figures revised UK growth down from 0.2 % to 0.1 % between April and June.

by Bill Chambers When news of Nick Nolte's arrest for driving under the influence of the date - rape drug hit the Toronto International Film Festival last year, just days after he'd made a strong showing there with Neil Jordan's The Good Thief, I immediately flashed back to the time I met Nolte — «met,» alas, a figure of speech in this case: We crossed paths in the lobby of the Park Hyatt Hotel.

admin, I think mendomermaid was using a figure of speech, like in informercials — «just try it — you will be surprised at how easy it is!»

In the north gallery, which presents some of Lassnig's later white - and - pastel - coloured paintings of figures in her now hallmark style, one sees examples of some of her ongoing concerns: speech and muteness (Self - Portrait with Speech Bubble, 2006, where speech is a small, just visible breath on a cold morning) and the idea of growing up (and growing old) in contemporary society, as in TV Child (1987).

[just a figure of speach] You [with much help obviously] really can make this stuff up — if I hadn't read Mr ChrisMofB's «full speech» [rant actually] I would have thought Gavin's link to rankexploits a bizarre parody.

It's just that I haven't strung the guitar in there yet (and that's not a Malaysian figure of speech, darling)..