For example, Snyder had contended that the City Paper literally implied that he used Agent Orange defoliant when McKenna wrote "going all Agent Orange on federally protected lands".
Anyone who said, back in 1990, "Chris is married," would have been interpreted, if taken literally, as implying that Chris was married to someone of the opposite sex.
The harshest punishment arrived when the government shuttered Neihan Duanzi, literally meaning "implied jokes" in Chinese, for charges of propagating "vulgar content".
If taken literally, their rhetoric implies that America's single biggest problem is the growing threat of illegal immigration.
It may be trite, but the word novel - literally meaning new - implies nothing of the sort.
David C. Martin talks of three generations of architects in Los Angeles, and in one interview, structural engineer Richard Bradshaw, talking about the construction of LAX, explains that an architect is, literally, as the title implies, the arch technician of a building project, an etymology I had never before considered.
" This phrase literally means "noisy," but implies that the person you're talking about should shut up.
The term tietäjä literally means "knower," implying that as the specialist he knew more than ordinary humans about the nature of the supernatural world and of techniques for dealing with it.
The football he plays is an all-out war – guided by the dominating Uruguayan philosophy of garra (literally "claw", but implying a kind of hard-headed, streetwise cunning) for Suarez everything and anything is permitted.
