There were bits of the literal, though: the martial stepping and staccato gestures of the warriors in Limbo; the sensuality and almost-partnering of Paolo and Francesca, and the tormented writhing of her husband; the giants created by dancers sitting on others' shoulders, in the fifth section, "Monsters of the Prime"; the ugly, thrashing phrases of Shane Dennis Rutkowski, as a naked Satan.
Lenora has big ideas regarding her young nephew and isn't above using a bit of emotional (and literal) blackmail to get them.
It takes confidence to show complete restraint, to not go all X-Men 4 on it, to understand that not every gesture needs some kind of literal bit of sound design or melody [ed. note X-Men 4 doesn't seem to exist, but point taken].
There's nothing wrong with a bit of cleverness, but sometimes literal trumps latent.
Andrew Garfield was filming "The Amazing Spider-Man II" in New York when a bit of rain put a literal dampener on on-set activities.
The momentum and morale of this impressive siege took a serious hit when they stumbled upon a bit of Dracula's handiwork: a literal forest of stakes adorned with 20,000 men from Mehmed's previous Ottoman army.
After going through the entire series looking for every instance of sex and nudity, The Huffington Post discovered that in 20 hours of material, there is just a little over 15 minutes of, literal and figurative, naughty bits.
"The Taliban takes one bit of the Sharia, the harsh and literal interpretation, and leaves out the most important part, the compassion," Akbar Ahmed, Chair of Islamic Studies at American University and author of Journey into America, told me.
When a waitress swept by to clear my plates, she asked, "You realize that he can't hear anything, right?" "Dim sum" has two literal interpretations: a bit of heart, offered by the chef; and touching the heart, gently, of the diner.
