Sentence examples for literal expression from inspiring English sources

Since Davies's theory posits at base a contour-recognition experience while Levinson's posits an imaginative experience of expression, the link between literal expression and musical expressivity looks closer in Levinson's theory than in Davies's.

Waldrop's feminism, expressed in lacunae and "gaps," implicitly mocks the need for accuracy and literal expression, here imagined as essentially male.

Composers have a less direct means of rebellion than the more literal expression of painters, photographers and playwrights.

There you are hearing someone say "he kicked the" which up to that point could be an ordinary literal expression.

Risk, released in the 1950s, is a stunningly literal expression of cold-war realpolitik.

When she crosses the floor in huge stomps, the brief shift to less literal expression has even greater impact.

These thinkers took a position that was intermediate between the traditionalists, who remained attached to the literal expressions of the primary sources of Islamic doctrines (the Qurʾān, Islamic scripture; and the Hadith, sayings and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad) and who abhorred reasoning, and those whose reasoning led them to abandon the Islamic community (the ummah) altogether.

The N400-like modulation of metaphorical expressions showed a greater difference between congruent and incongruent categories over the left anterior region, compared with the literal expressions.

I guess I'm attached to long hair for the same milkmaid-mermaid-Rapunzel-potential reasons as any other chiquita who tends to hysterically cling to more literal expressions of femininity.

The hemispheric balance indices of the network underlying literal expressions show a left hemispheric bias, in accordance with the literature.

In the NM network the directionality of rSTG had a slight outward bias, but had an inward bias for conventional metaphors and literal expressions.