This was surely some of His intensely figurative language again, they think.

The use of similes and metaphors and other figurative language raises a difficult question.

A will is the last place where one would use ambiguous or figurative language.

First, we found that patients used a similar amount of figurative language as control participants.

The first study examined free speech for figurative language.

A similar use of figurative language, in a still bolder manner, is found in Isaiah.

In his figurative language the Arab said: No man can by flight escape his fate.

There seemed to be few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language.

But I do not see any gain in forcing figurative language into a literal use.

Use a piece of figurative language too much, and it stops having any deeper meaning.

Mr F. seems to have imposed on himself by the gratuitous use of figurative language.

The Bible is packed with figurative language and poetry.

Mr. Clay is displeased with figurative language which he thinks improper for a state paper.

This was figurative language, yet it was impossible to doubt there was much truth in it.

Such is the function of figurative language generally.

If we would truly understand Christ's declarations, we must not overlook the characteristics of figurative language.