On 'Casimir Pulaski Day', about the death of the narrator's teenage sweetheart from bone cancer, he becomes lost for words and, instead, literally cries a melody.
I have to admit, I had low expectations and was instead literally amazed that the Argus had all the bubbly mouthfeel, cleansing acidity and wonderful aromas we got from the Cava, and the Argus was even drier".
According to Gyekye, however, these locutions should not be taken literally, but instead merely to reflect "status, habits, and personality or character traits" that one acquires over the course of the one's life, not personhood (Wiredu & Gyekye 1992, 108).
We never take a brief literally but instead try to interpret the purpose of an institution, as it is not only the form of a building that interests us but we also research new and better ways in which people can use a building.
Mr. Wong said the borough shirts were not intended to literally represent each borough, but instead to evoke them.
But the presidential scholars do implicitly seem to be applying something like that standard: Harrison, who accomplished almost literally nothing, is not regarded as average but instead as the fourth-worst president.
The narrator is supposed to be celebrating the six-figure sale of his book, but instead he focusses on the absurdity of the meal: "the impossibly tender things" had been "literally massaged to death".
But instead of reading "Hamlet" or "Great Expectations," he found himself puzzling over abstruse literary theory whose essential tenets he took literally.
But instead, he volunteered.
