Sentence examples for literal set from inspiring English sources

In the film the scene is made literal, set in an intensive care unit.

In her debut production as artistic director, Orla O'Loughlin allows the strangeness to be constrained by an overly literal set, but her cast, led by Garry Collins and Anne Lacey, are superb, rooting Pearson's ear for Doric poetry in a disturbingly credible world.

It feels like a fundamental violation of something I care about, and it's a perfect microcosm of the way games see religion: as literal set pieces, to spice up the proceedings, a way to add flavor and maybe inject some excitement with a new setting.

The literal setting is not the thing, Mr. Wilson said, being "reinvigorated and reborn" is.

The ocean, the exhibition reminds us, became in Shakespeare's plays both "a literal setting and metaphor for instability".

Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (first performed 1874) is a literal setting of a play by Aleksandr Pushkin, itself modeled on Shakespeare's histories, to which the composer added the Macbeth-inspired hallucination scene.

Ms. Ahrens's lyrics sometimes draw directly on Dr. Seuss (the finale is a fairly literal setting of "Green Eggs & Ham"), but even when the phrases are new, the spirit and simplicity of the original are honored.

There is frequent discussion of man's almost symbiotic relationship with nature, as well as frequent use of "literal setting", that is, an attempt to faithfully reproduce a sense experience from a given moment, a technique later used frequently by William Wordsworth.

Pinter's play is every bit the blasted landscape of Beckett's Godot despite its literal setting (the ceiling is topped by shadows of trees and open to the sky, an evocative touch that gives McKellen a funny bit of business early on).

Directed by Rebecca Gatward and strongly performed on a too-literal set by Liz Cooke, Pandas sometimes remains earthbound, overly concerned with the domestic relationships and not enough about the metaphor its Chinese theme suggests.

Then, Britain's far right never recovered from the National Front's exposure, in the late 1970s, as a literal front, set up by hardline Nazis to disguise its real aims and beliefs from the people to whom it wanted to appeal.