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So it didn’t matter what was being said about us by outside voices, because inside our literal and figurative tent, we believed.

This future she’s battling is figurative, yet her desperate self-reliance — her inability to trust others — is deeply relatable to anyone struggling to get by without a safety net.

Each episode allows us to get to know more about them beyond a few quirks or twirls of the figurative mustache.

From Salon

"Unless more evidence comes through, we aren't going to know. But the extraordinary flourishing of figurative art tells us that people really took to the idea of imagining the divine as human."

From BBC

The Hammer Museum presents the first United States institutional survey of figurative painter Noah Davis, highlighting his perceptive blend of realism and dreamlike imagery.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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