At least it used to be an interesting figure of speech.
That makes him a particularly interesting figure in the current debate over how "activist" judges should be.
He is the most interesting political figure to have emerged from the Muslim world in many years.
So it was perhaps inevitable that these two interesting figures would bump into each other.
"That is an interesting figure," said Paul, searching for his place in the manuscript.
He would write about six interesting but unknown historical figures.
It is significant that Francis himself, the only member of the family not heard from directly, emerges as the book's most interesting figure.
In my book, Wosniak is a far more interesting figure.
I received in my mail this morning some interesting figures showing world energy demand.
There are many interesting figures in the annual report, but I will take a moment to reflect on only two of them.