The gates of horn and ivory are a literary image used to distinguish true dreams (corresponding to factual occurrences) from false.

A common literary image was that an apple should not be able to pass between their lances.

"The literary image of Short Hills is already set in people's minds."

All this is a fresh literary image of home.

Henriette Caillaux's testimony shifted back and forth between literary and scientific images.

He conceded the utility of programs, stories and literary images to engage the listener actively in the musical experience.

"It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.' "

The confused events of the 450s and 460s are not easily squared with the literary image of the period purveyed by Sidonius.

Mr. Soyinka insists that we see the real Akinyode behind every movement of his literary image.

Most impressive of the group was the four-movement "Dreaming," inspired by a sequence of literary images.