Sentence examples for literal for from inspiring English sources
In translating Greek into English, one should strive to be literal, for literality is the essence of the aesthetic experience in reading Greek.
As a group — if I can be literal for a second — they make zero sense.
"People with autism are very literal for the most part so they get very confused by metaphors and business speak.
For a viewer on his way to Mauthausen, the scene, however stagey, was too literal for comfort.
The title of this new summer performance series is figurative, not literal, for there are fans in the gleaming little performance space.
She has taken on a grand Greek acting style here, but the theater is too intimate and the play too literal for the bluster.
But each choreographer rose to the challenge with striking intelligence, revealing a wide range of resources while almost never attempting a literal step-for-note response.
As duty editor one night, David McKie was checking the financial pages when he saw one of the "literals" for which the paper – unjustly at times – became famous.
(bf-EVALPSN) An extended vector annotated literal, begin{aligned} R(p_i,p_j,t)!:![ i,j),mu ] end{aligned}is called a bf-EVALP literal or a bf-literal for short, where ((i,j)) is a vector annotation and (mu in { alpha, beta, gamma }).
In the latter case, the result is a conjunction (G_1 wedge cdots wedge G_n) where every (G_i) is a disjunction of literals for (i=1, n).
The Greek word for "shooting" is a literal translation for the act of shooting a gun; however, this word is clearly not appropriate for describing pain.
