Sentence examples for literal condition from inspiring English sources

That procedure being to take one of my own metaphorical fugues, or even a figure of speech, and sort of deliberately misunderstand it as a literal condition or situation that a character has to undergo (i.e. "We all make our own Internet").

The participants' task was to silently read and understand one meaning (in the literal condition) or two meanings (in the pun condition).

Whether this taints Little Women is a thought likely to leave readers as divided as postbellum America – whether a writer's greatest truth lies in her literary creation, or in the literal conditions that goaded its production.

The 2 types of sentences were also matched for syntactic structure (i.e., only the critical words differed between idiomatic and literal conditions) and cloze probability.

"Laundering" is not a literal term.

As noted already, there is overwhelming evidence that NDEs do not provide a literal experience of conditions in the afterlife; this is attested, among other things, by the considerable variations in these experiences in different times and different cultures.

Literally his literal genitals.

We can safely refer to each and all of these interests, if this is not a literal description of their present condition.

In a statement, Sepa said: "It is now widely accepted that a literal return to a pristine condition is a far from simple or even achievable concept.

Ice Watch, a collaboration of Eliasson with geologist Minik Rosing, which we previewed earlier this month, is a literal visualisation of the critical condition of the Arctic ice caps.

The site was created by Ricky Durham, whose late brother suffered from Crohn's disease — a condition that came with literal baggage.