"metaphorical terms" means using words or expressions to describe something figuratively or symbolically, rather than their literal meaning. It's like using words to paint a picture or convey a deeper meaning beyond their regular definition.
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Sentences with «metaphorical terms»
- For his first exhibition of paintings in New York in nearly a decade, Italian artist Sandro Chia offered a rather overt reflection on his life, albeit one delivered in the painterly and metaphorical terms for which he is known. (artinamericamagazine.com)
- Thus dogma is no mere flowering of the imagination but something authentically born of history; and it is in literal not metaphorical terms that the Christian believer can illumine and further the genesis of the Universe around him in the form of a Christogenesis. (religion-online.org)
- They guard in metaphorical terms the fundamental insights which have come through God's revelation to the prophets, and through the impact of Jesus upon the world. (religion-online.org)
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