Allegedly, some Twins people “threw a party” seeing Donaldson go, though we assume that’s only figurative.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/08/19/six-brian-cashman-moves-helped-put-yankees-in-this-mess/

Doig earned his reputation in the 1990s as a figurative painter with a unique voice echoed in his monumental canvases, large-scale, immersive landscapes that hover in both actuality and the realms of the imagination.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nargessbanks/2023/02/10/peter-doigs-new-exhibition-at-the-courtauld-is-a-lively-and-lyrical-show/

For “literally” to work, what you are saying must have a figurative meaning that is actually happening.

Source: https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/12/hart-its-like-literally-amazing-how-sloppy-language-has-become/

He favours landscape and figurative work accenting light and dark.

Source: https://www.bancroftthisweek.com/apfta-offers-first-glimpse-into-bancroft-fall-studio-tour/

Her figurative work reflects thoughts on the reason for and role of humanity while her dynamic wave paintings take inspiration from life on the North Coast.

Source: https://www.northernirelandworld.com/news/people/ni-husband-and-wife-artists-adrian-margey-and-evana-bjourson-to-stage-exhibition-in-portballintrae-4225558

Instead of Marc Spector’s literal Dissociative Identity Disorder, this is a figurative alternate persona: two people acting as halves of a whole.

Source: https://screenrant.com/marvel-new-moon-knight-ra-khonshu-ultimate-universe/

“It’s hard to express how bizarre being a figurative painter in California in the 1980s at CalArts would be; he really was by himself,” Hoptman remarked.

Source: https://observer.com/2023/10/hauser-wirth-debuts-its-new-space-in-the-french-capital/

Jamie Lloyd directs a figurative and literal bare-bones version that has been pruned with careful thought by Amy Herzog.

Source: https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/03/a-dolls-house-review-cleaning-house/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-dolls-house-review-cleaning-house

Many Chinese associate the late Jiang with an era seen as brighter and more hopeful than the literal and figurative lockdown Xi has brought upon China.

Source: https://thediplomat.com/2023/02/data-shows-chinas-coercive-diplomacy-isnt-working/

The Portland Art Museum says, “After returning from the war, Hagiwara began to develop a figurative style that moved into abstraction by way of a poetic sense of composition and whimsical forms.

Source: http://moderntokyotimes.com/japan-art-and-hagiwara-hideo-1940s-seascapes/

These love letters preserved in the U-M Clements Library helped me understand the literal meaning of the figurative phrase “head over heels.”

Source: https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/490188/macarthur-in-love

Unfortunately for football fans waiting with bated breath, A-Rod has done so in a literal and not figurative fashion.

Source: https://nesn.com/bets/2023/02/aaron-rodgers-has-completed-darkness-retreat/