Here, too, however, there is frequent reference to the Canaanite figurativeness and symbolism.

The role of material and painting gestures becomes more prominent when figurativeness and non-figurativeness are engaged in the large-scale canvases.

Introducing a poem about "a freshet up in New England" at a 1951 reading, Frost admitted to exasperation with "the figurativeness of everything today."

Here Ms. Gaitskill presses her metaphorical prose to a pitch of figurativeness and analysis so weirdly artificial that it's mesmerizing - almost ecstatic.

Wieseltier is even prepared to sacrifice a thousand years of rational theology, and to substitute metaphor, allegory, symbol, figurativeness and analogy, in order to protect his preferred superstition from scrutiny.