Sentence examples for any literal from inspiring English sources

Rejecting "any literal requirement that condemned property be put into use for the...public", Justice John Paul Stevens said it was enough that the seizure should serve some vaguely defined "public purpose"—such as those new taxes.

Reznor coined the name "Nine Inch Nails" because it "abbreviated easily", rather than for "any literal meaning".

Once the piece gets going, however, any literal signifiers are elusive.

He ruled out the infinitesimal taken in any literal, "counting" sense.

But the core problem was not that investors were deceived in any literal sense.

"After all, it's the only one in which the Koran makes any literal sense.

"It was very important to me," he said, "to dodge any literal retreading of this topic".

Formal choreography (George Balanchine) can have a greater impact than any literal work.

I was never afraid of him in any literal sense, but he would try to intimidate.

He wants the landscape and the surroundings to "work on" the audience, but not in any baldly literal way.

If some goodwill is generated from the supporting cast (which includes strong, albeit small, performances from Steve Mouzakis and Fox), it is largely squandered by an out-there ending hard to accept on any level, literal or metaphoric.