Instead, this year, his management team took a figurative bow, in the form of a 38% pay cut.
However, if Redmond plays dumb or comes up empty handed, a figurative tail will find its way between the company's legs and a handful of dirty looks and I-told-you-so's are likely to ensue.
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Mrs Albright gave her embattled ally a figurative slap on the back, praising Japan for its loyalty and bravery.
The Catholic Church accepts evolution and Original Sin by interpreting the Fall as described in Genesis as a figurative event.
In terms of experience, he was in the U.S. Senate for a figurative five minutes when he decided to run for President.
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Being a figurative odd man out did not help him in New York or Paris in the 1960s, when abstraction or pop were what sold.
With the country exhibiting positive demographics, strong consumer demand and an open, competitive economy, Turkey is at a figurative, as well as literal, crossroad between Europe and Asia.
But the Missonis had their revenge, creating a literal and figurative splash in Milan the next year when a poolside show ended with everyone in the water.
But when it came to paintings he had bought only figurative work, like a pretty oil of a vase of flowers by Milton Avery.
"Landscape with a farm, " a second figurative painting by Dutch artist Mondrian -- who is better known for his abstract works -- was left behind as the burglar ran away.
The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.7 It is work to deal with the dead as well, to remove them in the literal sense of disposing of their bodies, and it is also work to remove them in a more figurative sense.
The novel demands to be read like this, as a fable, for while it roots around in the stench and swill of life, it is at the same time a highly figurative tale about truth versus fact, about meaning, and the power of language both to carry and destroy it.
The exhibit's final piece, Still Life With Old Shoe, announces a new stage in the life and work of the artist: a return to figurative painting.
The museum has around 6, 000 Beuys works, including a vast cache of early figurative drawings.
In 1955 he suddenly embraced representation, turning out dozens of figurative paintings that translate the language of Matisse into a wholly personal, semiabstract style.
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While they are hung separately in the exhibition, the catalog wonderfully juxtaposes Rothko's figurative "Untitled (Man and Two Women in a Pastoral Setting)" (c. 1940) and Milton Avery's "Girl With Cello" (1958) to reveal yet other affinities that Rothko shared with his fellow artists.
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The secret was to employ a stripped-down vocabulary and, crucially, avoid all figurative language and never tell jokes.
They also point up the explosion of sponsored roundabout art that has been taking place over the last decade or so - barely a circular traffic facility survives unadorned by some striking image, figurative or symbolic, inspiring or playful.
Were this a traditional blog, I would at this point put down my figurative pen and crowd-source the issue.
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Rather then pointing at a link or image with the cursor, the user drags their point of view across a static page, scoping in on the desired element before pulling the figurative trigger.
Calligraphy and the arabesque a continuous leaflike design dominate Islamic art, yet there are many figurative works here as well.
Despite some of the excitement that came with a star player like Chris Paul, the New Orleans Hornets have always played in both the literal and figurative shadow of the Saints.
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