While the ASA includes members with a diverse range of attitudes towards science ( theistic evolutionists, Intelligent Design advocates, Old-Earth creationists and Young-Earth creationists ), Stoner himself was apparently an Old-Earth creationist.

As critic James Hirsh has stated “ as a result, the play dramatizes not two but four main figurative locales: Rome as it is perceived from a Roman point of view ; Rome as it is perceived from an Egyptian point of view ; Egypt as it is perceived form a Roman point of view ; and Egypt as it is perceived from an Egyptian point of view.

Vico, in The New Science, posited a view of language as fundamentally figurative, and introduced into Enlightenment discourse the notion of the role of the imagination in creating meaning.

** Genesis in Space and Time: Argues that the historical ( as opposed to literalist or figurative ) view of Genesis as historically true is fundamental to the Christian faith.

Therefore in MacRitchie's view the Irish myths and folkloric accounts which describe the Fianna as " giants " only did so in a non-literal figurative sense to describe their savage type nature, not size.

Classical figurative painting offered only one point of view, a restrained ' sensation ' of the world, limited to the sensation of a motionless human being who sees only that which is in front of him from a single point in space frozen in a moment of time ( time was absolute in the Newtonian sense and separate from the spatial dimensions ).

It is distinct from the other forms of Christian eschatology such as postmillennialism or amillennialism, which view the millennial rule as occurring either before the second coming, or as being figurative and non-temporal.

Other sects, such as various Protestant denominations, modernist branches of Christianity, Mormonism and Reform Judaism, view the New Jerusalem as figurative, or believe that such a renewal may have already taken place, or that it will take place at some other location besides the Temple Mount.

Definitions can go wrong by using ambiguous, obscure, or figurative language.

On the other hand, folklore can be used to accurately describe a figurative narrative, which has no sacred or religious content.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

In a figurative sense, skeleton can refer to technology that supports a structure such as a building.

In the Alemannic language once spoken in Lorraine, the-ingen suffix signified a property ; thus, in a figurative sense, " Lotharingen " can be translated as " Land belonging to Lothair ".

Lacking this context, a person can give the figurative words a provisional set of meanings, but cannot correctly interpret the figurative utterance until acquiring more information about it.

The surname Sūn was given as an in-joke about the monkey, as monkeys are also called húsūn ( 猢猻 ), and can mean either a literal or a figurative " monkey " ( or " macaque ").

" His buildings can be considered total works of art in which architecture and the figurative arts are united to express a predominant idea — the glorification of God or the patron saint in ecclesiastical architecture or the allegorical glorification of the ruler or of the noble patron in secular buildings ... All of his works are composed of several different elements or contrasting features that are harmonized in a unified whole and in reference to their natural and artistic environment ".

Hard-edged painting can be both figurative or nonrepresentational.

In analogy with the figurative meanings of English pole, Chinese ji 極 " ridgepole " can mean " geographical pole ; direction " ( e. g., siji 四極 " four corners of the earth ; world's end "), " magnetic pole " ( Beiji 北極 " North Pole " or yinji 陰極 " negative pole ; anode "), or " celestial pole " ( baji 八極 " farthest points of the universe ; remotest place ").

The classical Arabic poetry and the text of the Qur ' an are two resources which can be used as foundational reference in ascertaining the meaning and signification of the remaining literal and figurative diction of the Qur ' an and its style of expression.

) can be regarded, in a figurative way, as " cultural illnesses " that are overcome in the end of the novel, when Kerewin, Joe and Simon form a sort of " patchwork family ".

Since stucco can be used for decoration as well as for figurative representation, it provides an ideal transitive link from architectural details to wall paintings such as the typically Baroque trompe l ' oeil ceilings, as in the work of the Wessobrunner School.

(...) He turned himself over to a spell, which can, with good reason and not simply in a figurative analogy, be described as demonic magic.

The use of large opened fields of expressive color applied in generous painterly portions, accompanied by loose drawing ( vague linear spots and / or figurative outline ) can first be seen in the early 20th century works of both Henri Matisse and Joan Miró.

Among the more commonly reported, and more thoroughly researched, sensory features of hypnagogia are phosphenes which can manifest as seemingly random speckles, lines or geometrical patterns, including form constants, or as figurative ( representational ) images.

Strategies that can be used to improve reading comprehension include: building oral and auditory language skills, including skills in: vocabulary knowledge, narratives, listening comprehension, and figurative language.

Painting and sculpture can therefore be divided into the categories of figurative, representational and abstract, although, strictly speaking, abstract art is derived ( or abstracted ) from a figurative or other natural source.

If there appears something in the Torah which contradicts reason … then here one should seek for the solution in a figurative interpretation … the narrative of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for instance, can only be understood in a figurative sense.

In a figurative sense, self-healing properties can be ascribed to systems or processes, which by nature or design tend to correct any disturbances brought into them.

In 1977, filmmaker Carlos Diegues said that " one can only talk about Cinema Novo in nostalgic or figurative terms because Cinema Novo as a group no longer exists, above all because it has been diluted into Brazilian cinema.

After the seventeenth century the audience ceased to be an organic community to which these ideas and their attendant habits of figurative language would be natural or immediately familiar.

Or, equally often, a concretistic-seeming, particularistic-seeming statement may consist, with its mundane exterior, in a form of poetry -- may be full of meaning and emotion when interpreted as a figurative expression: a metaphor, a smile, an allegory, or some other symbolic mode of speaking.

Patron Lemoine Pierce said of Alston's work: " Never thought of as an innovative artist, Alston generally ignored popular art trends and violated many mainstream art conventions ; he produced abstract and figurative paintings often simultaneously, refusing to be stylistically consistent, and during his 40-year career he worked prolifically and unapologetically in both commercial and fine art.

These are figurative representations of women, the Venus of Galgenberg found near Stratzing and thought to be 32, 000 years old, and the nearby Venus of Willendorf ( 26, 000 years old ) found at Willendorf, near Krems an der Donau.

Both green and colorless have figurative meanings, which allow colorless to be interpreted as " nondescript " and green as " immature ".

The mentions in the Tanakh tend to be historical or prophetic, while New Testament references are more likely figurative, or cryptic references possibly to pagan Rome, or some other archetype.

In his obituary of Lenkiewicz, art critic David Lee observed: " Robert's greatest gift was to show us that an artist could be genuinely concerned about social and domestic issues and attempt the difficult task of expressing this conscience through the deeply unfashionable medium of figurative painting.

They are also known from figurative sculpture, examples of which are to be found at the Palazzo Massimo in Rome and in the group of Niobids ( including Niobe sheltering one of her daughters ) found in Rome in 1583 along with the Wrestlers and brought to the Uffizi in Florence in 1775.

For example, the works of Jacques Derrida on the failure of language to impart the truth of the objects it is meant to represent would not be possible without Quintilian ’ s assumptions about the function of figurative language and tropes.

With a total lack of figurative representation, what drama there is to be found in a late Rothko is in the contrast of colors, radiating, as it were, against one another.

The design of a window may be non-figurative or figurative ; may incorporate narratives drawn from the Bible, history, or literature ; may represent saints or patrons, or use symbolic motifs, in particular armorial.

Snowball effect is a figurative term for a process that starts from an initial state of small significance and builds upon itself, becoming larger ( graver, more serious ), and perhaps potentially dangerous or disastrous ( a vicious circle, a " spiral of decline "), though it might be beneficial instead ( a virtuous circle ).

" Pollock's energetic " action paintings ", with their " busy " feel, are different, both technically and aesthetically, from the violent and grotesque Women series of Willem de Kooning's figurative paintings and the rectangles of color in Mark Rothko's Color Field paintings ( which are not what would usually be called expressionist and which Rothko denied were abstract ).

The Binding of Isaac is mentioned in the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews among many acts of faith recorded in the Old Testament: By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, " In Isaac your seed shall be called ," concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

Some elements, especially the letters of inscriptions, may be moulded in three dimensional relief, and in especially in Persia certain tiles in a design may have figurative painting of animals or single human figures.

It is also the first figurative memorial to Lord Nelson to be erected in Great Britain ( only second in the world after Montreal ) and was unveiled on 25 October 1809, as part of King George III's Golden Jubilee celebrations.

This type of usage conveys more of a figurative than a literal meaning, since in a strictly literal sense, something cannot be more or less unique or empty to a greater or lesser degree.

A superb figurative artist in the mystical tradition, Spare may be regarded as one of the last English Symbolists, following closely his great influence George Frederick Watts.

Metaphor and figurative description may be a part of analysis, and a metaphor used to describe pieces, " reifies their features and relations in a particularly pungent and insightful way: it makes sense of them in ways not formerly possible.

He clashed with the metro's first art director, Robert Lapalme, who insisted that metro art be figurative, represent Montreal history, and be sponsored.