The literal, identified with pure observation and description, is opposed to the rhetorical, identified (again) with deception and with a surrender to the lure of surfaces and to base emotional appeals.
(Dargis) ★ 'The Future' (R, 1 31) Miranda July, a surrealist for a drab, literal age, combines piquant observations of the emotional lives of the not-quite-young with imaginative inventions that are at once whimsical and perfectly serious.
(Scott) ★ 'The Future' (R, 1 31) Miranda July, a surrealist for a drab, literal age, combines piquant observations of the emotional lives of the not-quite-young with imaginative inventions that are at once whimsical and perfectly serious.
Literally his literal genitals.
According to a statement by Mr. Schnabel in the catalog, the works' abstract appearance is a bluff, hiding more literal meanings revealed by closer observation.
The latter includes literal and inferential synchronization, the extent to which observations or relationships at one time period can be applied to others.
But his observation that Western monotheism has "always offered... scandalously literal claims" is misleading — suggesting, as it does, an unexamined projection upon the past.
The protocol is based on the ideas derived from Mirror-based Therapy (MT) in which subjects not only perform literal motor imagery tasks but also combine their intents with visual action observation of a related motor imagery task.
Her survey begins with an astute observation: weather works so well as a symbol partly because its literal manifestation is oddly slippery.
Our interviews and observations were situated in and around local clinics and hospitals – literal manifestations of the right to access health care and the democratic social contract.
