Sentences with phrase «meant in a figurative sense»

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

Obviously, they mean this in a figurative sense.

Not exact matches

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.

There's a sense in which figurative speech drives an author's meaning home in ways that words taken in the ordinary way could never do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I sense in my commitment to ABSTRACT painting that I would not choose to look to figurative painting for any content and meaning...........

That means that as time goes on, each individual mining for them has to work harder and harder (in a figurative sense — it's the computer that's working harder and using more electricity, and thus, costing more conventional money).