"reference" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It's typically generous of him to tease us with a figurative reference; we get to tease him back, with free associations of our own.
- The work is a combination of portraits and abstract paintings, some with figurative references.
- Sacred cow is an idiom, a figurative reference to sacred cows in some religions.
- They do not allow figurative references.
- By 1988 Mr. Overstreet had reclaimed both oil paint and the figurative references he had abandoned along with it 25 five years before.
- There is an attempt to make constructed Cubist sculpture that is large and architectural, but with figurative references.
- A third kind of canvas combines grids with figurative references in a pointless irresolution.
- The editors understood the "nudge" comment as the television critic's figurative reference to Mr. Rivera's flamboyant intervention.
- When Mr. Shapiro moves away from the figurative reference, his work slackens.
- His use of symbols, signs and ambiguous figurative references has always made his work less than abstract.
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