For Lee, this notion of intensity, of looming violence, has a political aspect, and he aptly studs the script with references to America's violent history and tendency, as well as to the primal, aestheticized, and spiritualized violence that the Ashanti dagger symbolizes and, literally, conveys.
While such apartments can be passed along, they cannot literally be conveyed like heirlooms.
"Recall" deserves credit for taking a stab (literally) at conveying what these young men and women turn into instead, but their world finally becomes as unrecognizable as they are.
All of them discuss being comfortable in their own skin, which along with the common meaning of the expression, self-assurance, is meant more literally to convey the moisturizing properties of Dove Men and Care's soap bars and shower gels.
For example, students may have interpreted the information conveyed literally rather than symbolically (e.g., as specific three-dimensional hand shape), even though the shape presented in the gesture did not perfectly align to the shape represented by the contour pattern.
Roberts unpacks the various dimensions images literally occupied and metaphorically conveyed across a range of pictorial practices: among them visual analogies for transatlantic travel, improbably large ornithological prints, labyrinthine engravings, and quietly unfolding representations of landscape space.
Clarity of expression is a wonderful thing: the graceful geometric skeletons of points and lines convey more conceptual dimensions than the page can literally express.
But what happens if you ever need to convey "literally" in its proper context?
They literally glide through the concrete landscape, as if conveyed by an invisible car.
In his first sentence, Clinton vividly conveyed where he was coming from, literally and metaphorically - from a place of Hope.
But we also often make statements that are not literally true — that are in fact literal lies — while conveying a deeper truth that an honest statement of the facts could not communicate.
