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Metamorphosis also projects my desire to break out of standard artistic forms, both figuratively and literally.

Putting on some sexy music, getting the lighting right and starting out with a massage will get her to loosen up literally and figuratively.

Shaquille O'Neal gets figuratively dunked on if Kobe Bryant gets his own ring. I would love to see that happen.

In many languages, food is often used metaphorically or figuratively, as in "food for thought" .

But if you don't and won't, then burn this post immediately (figuratively, of course) and stick to what you know.

But the British people hated to see their spirited queen lagging figuratively, if not literally, behind priggish Prince Albert.

Figuratively, one may imagine the radiation of such a spherical maser as resembling a little hedgehog.

As he continues to feel frustrated, he becomes rebellious , figuratively kicks at people, grows sour on the world.

We think this [campaign] can be a real cleansing process, both literally and figuratively .

Curiosity: Creativity often comes from the drive to understand and take things apart, literally or figuratively.

Figuratively speaking, of course, those fathers having long been ground up and turned into so much cultural mulch.

The choice of a friend almost a bit arbitrary, but also embarrassed him face to face, to put it figuratively, it's just a smile.

warriorLet's face it: software testers are constantly in a state of warfare, figuratively speaking.

As true as I live, he's dying for you; breaking his heart at your fickleness: not figuratively, but actually.

At work, running on the spot (figuratively). A mirage of coffee is before me. Can I justify an espresso on the way to the bank?

The higher-end Android OS devices will continue to be billed (both figuratively and literally) as premium smartphones.

If your jogging clothes weren't made of permeable fabric, you'd drown in your own sweat (figuratively speaking).

The energy intensive lamps are quite literally, and figuratively, getting a green makeover and may be sprouting on a street near you soon.

Figuratively and practically, there isn't a marquee on earth big enough to hold all of them.

Pep up your old system : What if a potential buyer wants to figuratively kick the tires of your PC before plunking down cash for it?

The physical aesthetics has such characteristics as objectivity, figuratively, emotionality and creativity.

attack, bombard, assail, storm, assault, beset These verbs mean to set upon, physically or figuratively.

Their movies literally and figuratively opened up a whole new world to an entire generation.

She is, figuratively speaking, holding a gun to his head.

The transparent goldfish bowl figuratively describes an environment in which there is no privacy.

Figuratively, a catalyst is a person who by his mere presence causes a reaction.

In India adults still look up to their parents. But only figuratively.

In today's Gospel, Jesus visits a building-the Temple still under construction, and speaks figuratively of the new Temple-His Body.

Keep an eye on the sky -- figuratively speaking, of course.

I take it figuratively as the space range and time limits of my life.

P: Petit Mort: A French phrase. Literally, meaning 'Little Death' but figuratively pertaining to an orgasm.

A leaf with an acute end. Figuratively they indicatemental alertness and clarity of comprehension.

he looked right and left; also figuratively; the political party has moved left.

Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city , which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt , where also their Lord was crucified .

Literally and figuratively, LeBron was head-and-shoulders above his friends.

So today's computer or smartphone is, figuratively, a United Nations assembly of parts.

figuratively, it stands for building one's way, "little by little, " toward one's goals in life.

This construct means that technology could be figuratively translated to mean "the field of knowledge about the art. "

Washington, D. C. , touts its underground, too, but the term is meant figuratively.

These are things that. . . well, figuratively speaking, only a mother (read: the application's developer) would know.

Well, figuratively speaking.

Costume is a carrier of society culture, is that the ideological form concretization, is figuratively and most keen express way.

So it's a continuous feedback or, figuratively, a continuous cycle of history.

Watching a big soccer match can strain a fan's heart - not just figuratively, but literally, German researchers reported on Wednesday.

Figuratively, this just likes a corpse of original tumor.

"Literally" isn't a word you use for emphasis. It's a word you use when you say something that shouldn't just be interpreted figuratively.

figuratively , he could not kiss the hand that smote him.

Employees will be, figuratively speaking, in the driver's seat.

Figuratively speaking, the tree grows in height.

With some 23, 000 employees in more than 30 countries. Aker Solutions's expertise breaches boundaries both literally and figuratively.

With some 23, 000 employees in more than 30 countries. Aker Kvaerner's expertise breaches boundaries both literally and figuratively.

So , I placed it on the shelf, both literally and (5)figuratively along with other souvenirs from the past.

I know I'll spend time in Tennessee and mend some fences, literally and figuratively.

This is a Chinese chess term used figuratively to mean belated action or advice.

With gas already at $4 a gallon and rising almost every day, Iran figuratively and literally has the United States over a barrel.

I wonder how many of us figuratively have Harry Potter story outlines written on napkins in our lives.

When you have a bitter taste in your mouth there is a sharp sensation that figuratively bites.

Groundwork is most often applied figuratively, in the sense of a necessary preliminary:

The chairmanship is vacant. Figuratively the word refers to the absence of intelligent meaning or thought:

Fluctuate is most often used figuratively to imply fairly constant alternating change:

ponderous prehistoric beasts. Figuratively it describes what is complicated, involved, or lacking in Grace

any person or thing that is doomed to fail or die; to have failed or died, ( usually used figuratively)

Figuratively speaking, if a bank has poor liquidity, then it is likely that they will be in the intensive care ward;

Angel the light of truth (262-9). Other possibilities: 1. wisdom. 2. guidance. 3. a coming birth or death (literally or figuratively)

Think Figuratively About the Safety and Prevention Work in Community in the New Situations