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His figurativeness is only for the imagination; in the representation the delicate, poetic tinge is necessarily lost.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

There is so much figurativeness and dreamy sentiment that one never gets to the firm, clear surface.’

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

"What are you doing here," he growled, as the young republican arrested his attention, in language more remarkable for Oriental figurativeness than for Parisian elegance, "a raven among so many birds of gay plumage?"

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry

Yet he is much more varied, flexible, and fluent than Johnson or Gibbon, with much greater variety of sentence forms and with far more color, figurativeness and picturesqueness of phrase.

From A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington

Of course, as with abstraction and concreteness, you should develop facility in gliding from literalness to figurativeness and back again.

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)