Sentence examples for literally dependent from inspiring English sources
Because the work often seems so literally dependent on the events and moods of the poem in such elements as its use of a variety of musical styles (among them jazz and serialism), some critics have found it too closely tied to the Auden poem to provide the unfamiliar listener with a cohesive experience.
So we are literally dependent these days on hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals and organizations over whom we exercise no direct control.
Imagine having everything to live for--two beautiful children, a loving husband and loyal friends--and then finding out in a flash that your life is literally dependent on the kindness of a stranger.
A stroke which left him almost literally speechless, dependent on his wife Enrica, 41 years his junior, as interpreter, seemed to rule out any possibility of another film.
Having seen firsthand the dire consequences of severely degraded soils in East Africa, where literally "dirt-poor" people are entirely dependent on whatever food aid they receive, I have developed a new respect for the brown stuff.
While I strongly believe in "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and want those things for all people (literally, all the people), I am not dependent on them.
They become whole, and the male is completely dependent on the female for nourishment – quite literally fulfilling our "missing piece" archetype.
He is not so much adolescent as almost literally infantile, talking in a high-pitched baby voice and dependent on a squadron of mommies.
Taking the Flak is dependent on collegiate war stories too, rather more literally in this case since BBC2's new comedy is about foreign correspondents covering a small African war that has just got big.
Since the church is financially dependent on lay people, that sort of row cannot, literally, be afforded either.
Nonliteral, indirect, and figurative meanings are secondary products, and dependent on some prior analysis of what words and expressions literally mean.
