"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Applying the lost wax technique, he produced small abstract and ornamental figures.
- Rather than regarding metaphors as ornamental figures of speech, cognitive poetics examines how the conceptual bases of such metaphors interact with the text as a whole.
- (A gargoyle is any ornamental figure on a building, while grotesques are specifically those that invoke the monstrous, threatening, deformed images reminiscent of the Middle Ages.)
- The nobles, in like manner, have nearly ceased either to guide or misguide; and are now, as their master is, little more than ornamental figures.
- Entered through a stained-glass door, it is peopled with ornamental figures, animals and plants.
- There are ceramics, glass, jewelry, clothing, quilts, pillows, ornaments, clocks, metalworks and ornamental figures.
- The second movement, "Habanera Nocturna," unfolds widely spaced ornamental figures over a seductive dancing rhythm that simplifies and fades as the movement ends.
- Our northern mariners, who are trained in the coal-trade, apply this distinction to a broad-sterned ship, which carries no ornamental figure on the stem or prow.
- In the later quartets the first violin's ornamental figures become more than just the decoration one hears early on.
- Other ornamental figures include Bagnante, a Diana, and Leda.
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