figurative

• P. S. You will perceive that the last sentence is figurative, and implies that I shall watch and fast over your proposition for forty-eight hours. —  Authors and Friends
• FDL they've started a "Sarah Palin Goodbye Watch", but really, shouldn't it be called a figurative "death watch"? —  Connecticut Bob
• The appeal is rooted somewhere in something both literal and figurative -- how the weightlessness we feel in water is a temporary reprieve from all that we carry, all that brings us / holds us down. —  elle, phd
• Meanwhile, maybe someone could point out to the zealots on the left that since both the GOP and Limbaugh himself utterly reject the notion that he's the head of the Republican party - figurative or otherwise - that maybe, just maybe, he's not? —  Sound Politics
• Kaye's painting technique is reminiscent of her famous contemporaries Elizabeth Peyton and Hernan Bas -- figurative, representational, and, as described by Triple Base, "loose and whimsical". —  Eyebeam reBlog

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