Sentence examples for literally understood from inspiring English sources

Witchcraft, literally understood, is a story of particular times and places and of richly idiosyncratic human situations.

But as Ken MacDonald, warden of Wadham College at Oxford argues, literally understood this would mean that he – or I, as principal of Hertford College, across the road – would have to keep the government informed on a regular basis.

Suddenly, debates over religion are getting nasty, with both sides beginning to look more and more like each other: both angry, both agreeing that Christianity has to be literally understood and evangelically expressed in order to count as the real thing.

He came across as an engagingly warm and natural human being, bubbling over with enthusiasm for what he regarded as right and true, and so deeply convinced of the core truth of the Christian faith that he could afford to have a relaxed attitude to what he did not regard as essential elements of it – such as the virgin birth, or the empty tomb – as literally understood.

Typically, the rabbis dispute its philosophical meaning since it could be literally understood as either "within the line of law" or — as it is more often understood — "beyond the line of law".

I had read some plays, seen some plays, studied enough to be able to literally understand what was going on, but… felt like it just wasn't really for me.

Searle's argument was originally presented as a response to the claim that AI programs such as Schank's literally understand the sentences that they respond to.

"The honeyguide literally understands what the human is saying," adds Stuart West, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

To the objection that the soul itself does not literally understand or know but is instead that thanks to which a human being can understand and know, William will argue that the soul and human being, which he equates with the referent of the pronoun "I," are one and the same thing.

I mean, no one could literally understand it well enough to even give us advice, early on.

Service compris is the motto at the end of every menu, meaning literally "service understood" or, closer, "service included".