Sentence examples for literal is from inspiring English sources

And that word, "quietly," which is not quite literal, is a little surprise.

Which is why the usual conceptual duo of translation — fidelity, and the literal — is too clumsy.

How literal is the dance featuring the woman writhing with a pair of lovers?

This kind of liberation from the merely literal is one of the whole points of the exercise, whatever the art.

Equally literal is "the elephant in the room" – a plastic model of a white elephant behind George's chair.

The flattening out of the word "literal" is just one instance of a trend that Barfield detected across modern English.

The seductions of the literal are everywhere.

The War on the Literal" was underway.

Explosions, figurative and literal, are obviously in the offing.

The "literal" was a translation of the words of the poem, without poeticisation or formal qualities.

Thus, the information given in this database as a literal was used to determine the relationships between proteins and enzymes.