Sentence examples for literal experience from inspiring English sources

As a poet, I expect to spend a certain amount of time with my head in the clouds, but after three weeks stumbling around inside them I have to report that the metaphorical and the literal experience are two very different things.

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.

Class is the literal experience in Collected Stories at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, which explores the tricky relationship between teacher and student, mentor and protégé.

Sam and Benny actually have a great deal in common (beyond their literal experience with drinking blood) since both have visibly struggled against what is supposedly their nature; both could easily have shut off their humanity and killed (or even kickstarted the Apocalypse, in Sam's case), yet both have fought to be better than what destiny has marked them as.

While the metaphor for perception is taken from the gustatory sense, these theories are actually about visual, auditory, and imaginative pleasure, since it is widely assumed that literal taste experience is too bodily and subjective to yield interesting philosophical problems.

In the video below she ruminates about the possibility of racism stemming from the literal visual experience of seeing a darker face, a color that absorbs more light and looks more mysterious.

It is a film which gestures at the literal incomprehensibility of experience, how it resists encirclement and extends beyond the perimeters of perception and interpretation.

This paper argues that for translation to enhance the tourist experience literal accuracy is not enough and translations should be culturally sensitive to their target readers.

After a build-your-own-circuit kit fell into his hands around the time he was eight or nine, a trial-and-error session of experimentation led to a literal light-bulb experience.

A Literal 'Magic Carpet' Experience Lands in England.

Near the beginning of the novel, Perlman can't resist framing the nightmarish murder of Emmett Till, and of the four black girls killed in the bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, as a literal bad dream, experienced by his untenured Columbia historian.