But real method acting is less complicated and literal than that.
His inspired, quasi-mystical approach to scores famously contrasted with Arturo Toscanini's more literal or "objective" methods, and helped him produce passionate, otherworldly performances.
Using a style similar to the Talking Heads album Speaking in Tongues, Byrne scatted and murmured some lyrics before they were completed, due to Byrne's preference for the sonic quality of lyrics rather than their literal meaning and his method of writing lyrics using free association.
Like most patents, this one had a very literal name: "Systems and methods for providing a distributed file system incorporating a virtual hot spare".
Rashi combined the two basic methods of interpretation, literal and nonliteral, in his influential Bible commentary.
This information can be used to pick up hidden relationships within non-significant results provided by standard similarity search methods, based on literal approaches.
Rashi's Bible commentary illustrates vividly the coexistence and, to some extent, the successful reconciliation of the two basic methods of interpretation: the literal and the nonliteral.
The early Church Fathers sometimes used a threefold method of interpreting texts, encompassing literal, moral, and spiritual meanings.
For example, the early Church Fathers sometimes used a threefold (later fourfold) method of interpreting texts, encompassing literal, moral, and spiritual meanings.
The Clinton Administration proposed to use statistical sampling to address this in the 2000 census in effect, to use scientific sampling methods as a supplement to literal counting.
