Sentence examples for literal plays from inspiring English sources

Most of the art works were literal plays on the title: a video of a hundred doves trapped in the American Museum of Natural History, prints of owls, a diagram of a bird-bear hybrid.

Part 2, "Interplay," consists of a literal play, "And the Sun Stood Still".

There was a film with Depardieu that was the literal play, and it's a masterpiece.

For her, the barricades – both figurative and literal – played a role not merely as part of the battle to preserve one of the oldest parts of Manhattan, but in her entire analysis of the urban economy.

In all, it's a pretty interesting undertaking — and it's a great literal play on the "entrepreneurs as pirates" analogy that TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington has championed.

Topics such as age, health and drawing — both metaphorical and literal — played recurring themes during the presentation.

Then I made a video with Michael Pope that portrayed a very literal play-by-play of what was being related in the song.

An almost literal play-by-play of what happens in each episode, the book itself is divided into five chapters, each one devoted to one of the shorts.

Unmapped neighboring bnodes are the same for incoming links but differ for outbound links - while neighboring bnodes are unmapped, URIs and literals play an important role in distinguishing blank nodes.

Curtis solution was happy and wistful at once: we laughed out loud at the literal fun of child's play, and pondered the metaphor for the colour blindness that exists before prejudice and xenophobic fear are learned.

Birds of a more literal kind played their own part in the tour's problems, with a whole flock in aerial formation causing havoc at a concert in a stadium.