Sentence examples for literal by from inspiring English sources

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President Trump, meanwhile, has made the metaphor of immigrant invasion literal by vowing to build a wall.

The works, though, also subscribe at least loosely to the Judaic concept of "hiddur mitzvah," sanctifying something (a commandment, if one is literal) by beautifying it.

All seems to take place in the same shadowy moral darkness, made literal by Judith Greenwood's gloomy lighting, and little has much impact.

On the surface, the unease that rippled beneath the surface of those big, square movies — the fear of societal collapse made literal by falling crossbeams, bursting pipes and exploding engines — is absent from the newer, sleeker models.

The songs owe a great deal to the girl groups of the 1950s and '60s, a point rendered literal by one fan who did the Twist for much of La Sera's set.

Later Theresa's self-consciousness about her back is amusingly made literal by having her cavort on the disco floor with a curved sculpture strapped to her back, suggesting a twisted external spine.

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The signs (again, Samsung selected) featured phrases including the Spanish equivalent of "Vehicle speed monitored electronically" but managed to butcher it into a literal, line-by-line translation with jumbled meaning, saying something along the lines of "Speed electronic maintained".

But over the next two years, Roy and a couple friends put together a literal move-by-move guide to beating the game, relying on audio cues and plain old dead reckoning.

Then I made a video with Michael Pope that portrayed a very literal play-by-play of what was being related in the song.

An almost literal play-by-play of what happens in each episode, the book itself is divided into five chapters, each one devoted to one of the shorts.

THE BACCHAE By Euripides, a new version by David Greig from a literal translation by Ian Ruffell; directed by John Tiffany; associate director and choreographer, Steven Hoggett; composer and musical director, Tim Sutton; designed by Miriam Buether; lighting by Colin Grenfell; sound by Christopher Shutt.

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