Sacraments, such as the Eucharist (in Catholicism, a priest literally converts a cracker and wine into the body and blood of Christ), involve a physicality that's hard to imagine in the digital realm.
He is the playhouse's biggest cheerleader, speaking of it with a child's enthusiasm for its let's-put-on-a-show quality -- the theater is literally a converted red barn -- and a veteran's reverence for its history.
The first version of Find&Save seemed to take that idea quite literally — it converted print circulars to digital and posted them online.
Last year it aggressively tried to convert — literally — DVD and Blu-ray buyers into UltraViolet users.
"Over the course literally of minutes, the cells converted from rather pedestrian, flat, undistinguished stem cells into absolutely typical neuron-looking cells," Dr. Black said, explaining that they looked like bright spheres surrounded by halos.
In truth, it's only half as spooky as when kids witnessed--sometimes literally overnight Showbiz Pizzas bought up by and converted into Chuck E. Cheeses': the shameless, ghettoized imitator.
Gathering the department heads together seemed a logical extension of that practice, but the Constitution authorized him only to "require the Opinion, in writing" of the department heads; taking the document literally would have precluded converting them into an advisory council.
Within hours of the boy's rescue from Florida waters last Thanksgiving, the lobby was the first to convert Elian, literally, into a poster child, distributing thousands of leaflets of him at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle beneath the headline: "Another child victim of Fidel Castro".
"Literally, it stands for 'protect as restricted data,' " Ms. Wampler replied, "and that is converted into a numbering system" that in a computer indicates the degree of security.
Shortly after the death of Balthasar, Philipp converted the company into a joint stock corporation, Aktiengesellschaft für Hoch- und Tiefbauten ("Construction and Civil Engineering Corporation", though literally the "Corporation for High - Hoch and Deep - Tief Construction - Bauten).
