Sonically, the music has reached a place that literally did not exist 5 years ago.
Hugo Chávez's geopolitical rivalry with Washington has reached soaring new heights -- literally into space.
Republican hypocrisy on "cutting" versus "saving" Medicare has reached the point where it almost literally knows no bounds.
On tiny Clipperton Island Gecarcinus planatus has reached population densities of 6 m−2 at times, literally reddening the island [90].
Taking a page from Silicon Valleys low-cost startup wave We literally called in favors, says the 32-year-old queen of hipsters the site has reached a respectable 1.5 million unique monthly visitors with a microscopic cash outlay.
"Literally", you see, in its development from knock-kneed, single-purpose utterance, to swan-like dual-purpose term, has reached that awkward stage.
UNICEF Area Representative Judita Reichenberg said that "the UN has reached out through face to face interviews, focus groups and crowd sourcing platforms to engage as many people as possible - we have literally reached hundreds of thousands of people from across the country, including the children, elderly, people with disabilities, ethnic and other minorities - people whose voices must be heard".
The hyperbolic, performative aspects of these clips are a pretty clear backlash against the fever pitch of absurdity that makeup tutorial videos have reached, where literally anyone can give their advice, accurate, ill-informed, or otherwise.
The whales frolicked around and underneath the boat, displaying their tail flukes, lobtailing, blowing at the surface and showering us with their misty breath, and repeatedly spyhopping so close to the boat that we literally could have reached out and touched them.
We have reached a place where we can literally make any visual show up on stage through digital technology, but it is easy to allow that same technology to take the place of imaginative, theatrical storytelling.
