Love traces this path without relying on literal or historical representations of individual people.

"It is a figurative and literal representation of their isolation," he said.

Nor is it a literal representation of the speaker's thought.

But most are not literal representations of things or events.

The tendency to regard his first two books as literal representations of life in Japan is particularly exasperating.

However, it is not a literal representation of a person - but a representation of a person's force and energy.

We have come a long way from the time when literal representation was considered taboo in Cunninghamland.

At the same time, he traded the literal representation of history for an allegorical one.

The resulting graphic is a literal representation of the album's title.

In art, the impressionist movement began a trend away from literal representation, to one based on the subtle, changing moods of light and color.