Sentence examples for interpreting literally from inspiring English sources

Philo mentions Jews who scoffed at the Bible, which they insisted on interpreting literally, and others who failed to adhere to biblical laws that they regarded as mere allegory; he writes too of Jews who observed nothing of Judaism except the holiday of Yom Kippur.

However, interpreters are trained to interpret literally.

Interpreted literally and stripped of irony, many such period looks "are self-conscious," she said.

If its exploration metaphor is interpreted literally, browsers are more like boats, and search engines are the navigators.

NBC News refers to Clinton as a "special correspondent," a title best interpreted literally.

His exhortation was interpreted literally, and within a fortnight practically every member of the football team appeared in corduroy trousers.

6. Organize a debate between classmates representing both the Originalists (those who believe the Constitution should be interpreted literally) and the Living Constitutionalists.

This does not mean that the law must be interpreted literally if to do so would defeat the clear purpose of the statute.

Reluctant to accept the conservatives' insistence that the Bible be interpreted literally and that women submit to their husbands and be barred from serving as pastors, the moderates have set up seminaries and a religious publishing house.

"If Komiyama's isn't allowed, then everybody's isn't allowed," said Valentine, who noted that Kevin Brown, Hideo Nomo and Byung Hyun Kim have deliveries that violate the rule if it is interpreted literally.

One important school of Koranic scholarship, Mutazilism, held 1,000 years ago that the Koran need not be interpreted literally, and even today Iranian scholars are surprisingly open to critical scholarship and interpretations.