Sentence examples for literal differences from inspiring English sources

Journalists have swarmed to the previews and those of my era are tracking the literal differences between the actors and our memories.

It probably wouldn't have made much literal difference in UC's financial woes, but at least we would have felt that our president and other higher-ups were in solidarity with us, suffering privation equal to our own.

(See Camp 2006) The natural answer is to restrict the use of the test to cases in which the words are used literally; but of course the tests are supposed to help us decide when we have literal, semantic difference and when we don't.

Develop Good Questioning Skills: One simple way to begin developing this important skill is by helping E.L.L. students understand the difference between literal and interpretive questions.

2. Understand the Difference Between Literal and Interpretive Questions: The question we asked in the quiz above is an example of a "literal question" because the answer is "right there" in the text.

Literally his literal genitals.

These are indeed differences, in the literal sense of the word.

For example, setting the sequence range to the single position 152 and searching for 152Y in literal match mode with zero differences yields all those database strings that harbor this exact mixture (e.g., in case of heteroplasmy).

Daisey gets into trouble because the makers of This American Life, were too dense or self-righteous – too literal – to quite understand the difference between what they do and what Daisey does.

Another important difference: abstract vs. literal thought.

Cultural differences mean that a literal understanding of what someone says is often a world away from real understanding.