Sentence examples for literal long from inspiring English sources

In Flaubert's novel, the hermit saint has a literal long dark night of the soul, from sunset to dawn.

But maybe my viewing arrangement provided some (literal) long-range perspective.

By the time the brothers return home, having racked up miles and drama, Davy is in a literal long-distance relationship that has the emotional texture of a face-to-face, body-to-body encounter and requires a good deal of panting from Mr. Geraghty.

Is survival as a rational being a necessary means to literal, long-term survival?

It looked very literal on a long column cape but worked better when rapped around a shirt so that the front was of a tree in the photo's foreground and the building fitted nicely along the arm.

And if you want long, literal summaries of various ballets and choreography — including Nureyev's own, much of which was of dubious value (Arlene Croce called him "a choreographer of staggering incompetence") — you will find this too.

However, with the rapid development of technology, the direct sampling of high frequency signal has become a reality and the Nyquist criterion under literal meaning has long been broken through.

He got away with literal murder for so long not through felonious talent, but luck.

In the wake of our minds developing a literal connection, the eons-long distinctions between "self" and "other" will get fuzzy.

Still, I guess a more literal expression would be long-timer.

Literally his literal genitals.