To be fair, the writing was on the wall — literally — from the start.
He told me, "This particular food is one that, literally from the start, has brought people together who otherwise would not be in the same place". Hot chicken, he realized, might be Nashville's "only indigenous food". In 1986, Purcell, a Democrat, was elected to the state legislature, and he eventually became the majority leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
In a Presidency marked by inconstancy and flux, he has been literally in the picture from the start, a free-floating constant unique in the modern Presidency: there he is, the loyal young adjutant, whispering in the candidate's ear... Stephanopoulos's real estate is prime: his office is next door to the Oval Office.
In 15 to 20 years, he said, "literally from the driveway to destination starts to become possible".
The kind of anguish that was Lennon's stock-in-trade from Help! through to I Want You (She's So Heavy) is evident from the start: literally his first lead vocal on a Beatles album is "the world is treating me bad – misery".
Swinton is perfect for the complex, even unlikable (or at least unsympathetic) mother, though in fact she's very sympathetic as she struggles to come to grips with being a mother and having a child she literally can't relate to from the start.
Properly treating aggression, phobias, anxiety and fears from the start can literally save time and money.
In addition, when negotiators work together on a draft agreement, they literally get on the same page from the start.
Because I have seen people who started literally from the bottom and were able to prosper in this country.
Lay's potato chips didn't show up until 1997 because China bans potato imports, forcing Frito-Lay to start, quite literally, from the ground up, opening two farms to supply big, round, sturdy potatoes short on sugar (to preserve whiteness).
Yanking out a hand-held video camera, the researchers started shooting, literally, from the hip.
