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Sentences with figuration

fig·u·ra·tion
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  • Emblematic figurations of the sun and the moon.
  • Allegorical figurations.
  • In the history of ornament it is descriptive or illusionistic figuration that is aberrant.
  • The self's figuration as a trajectory that collapses or can't move ahead finds its formal parallel in Jarnot's insistent, incessant use of repetition, anaphora, litany, and incantation.
  • By the second movement they had gained impetus, each variation infused with poise and delicacy, especially the leader's virtuoso figuration and Emma Denton's eloquent cello theme.
  • Finally, a brisk march-like statement expands with changing figuration and buoyant mood to a scintillating finale.
  • Yet it is not capitalism but Protest itself which depends upon this figuration of the Father.
  • This new emphasis on figuration also led to a flowering in the production of illustrated manuscripts from the thirteenth century onward.
  • These transformations of nature into pattern, of narrative into schema, of figuration into device are what gives ornament its authentic character.
  • Its figuration, design and style are comparable to similar works by North German composers of the late seventeenth century.
  • The plinth becomes the very figuration of what cannot be figured.
  • The music is certainly not immune from figuration that assists finger dexterity, but it is polished less for fingers and more for ears.
  • Curiosity also connects the allegorical figuration of Nell's story and the novel's anti-didactic agenda.
  • It is not so much the use of language that Rousseau deplores - even less of figurative language, since figuration represents for Rousseau the form under which language first appeared.
  • This figuration of temporality by the spatial sequence of the words on the page is often, in turn, emblematized in narratives by the actual journeys upon which their characters embark.
  • The details came through with masterly panache, particularly the intersecting rapid figuration between Cuddeford and Williams.
  • Persisting with cubist tendencies in the epoch of abstraction sometimes sought a synthesis with modernist figuration and formalism.
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