Sentence examples for literal statement from inspiring English sources

It's perfect for Instagram, being a pleasingly literal statement about the place.

Figurative expressions, of course, lose their force as they become familiar and commonplace, and they may end by being no more than synonyms for the literal statement.

Figure of speech, any intentional deviation from literal statement or common usage that emphasizes, clarifies, or embellishes both written and spoken language.

The writers show us that if the world is a mirror of thoughts, no straightforwardly literal statement will ever be enough to help us see it more clearly.

Then you discover, on the reverse, ghostly silk-screened images of women in 19th-century Korean costumes: a disappointingly literal statement about ancestry and modernity.

Its most obvious but not its most compelling argument comes in the finale: a literal statement of the old Lutheran hymn "Es Ist Genug," which in both tone and harmonic underpinning mediates the arguments of an old world and a new one.

Ironic statements resulted in significantly higher activation levels than literal statements in the right superior and middle temporal gyri, with metaphoric statements resulting in intermediate levels in these regions.

Origen treated literal statements as "earthen vessels" preserving divine treasure; their literal sense is the body as compared with the moral sense (the soul) and the spiritual sense (the spirit).

At the same time, it is important to note that, whereas in the modern world scriptural myths are generally understood as metaphors, in the ancient world they were accepted as literal statements of fact.

Fiasco utilizes both metaphors and literal statements in his work, which he describes as "getting from point A to point B in as few words as possible".

In extreme--but broadly accepted--cases, we hear claims that the literal statements of the Bible trump all other forms of knowledge, even in science.