Sentence examples for make a literal from inspiring English sources

I don't even attempt to make a literal forecast.

What appears to be the case is that they tend to make a literal interpretation of statute.

Three people will be taking figurative victory laps (security would make a literal lap impossible) around the Fleet Center in Boston this week — Sen. John Kerry (Mass)., Sen. John Edwards (N.C).

Angry nuns have been calling Congressman Bart Stupak's office to complain about his dismissive comments on their bravura decision to make a literal Hail Mary pass, break with Catholic bishops and endorse the health care bill.

If it accepts, he will have to make a literal sprint for South America, trying to evade the British police in the vast tract of city between Knightsbridge and any international flight.

Oxtail, beef cheek, turnip, and black currants, on the other hand, make a literal hot mess, with a broth so concentrated and oily it's nearly inedible, and duck breast is overpowered by sweet peppers.

By 1986, though, long lines at gas stations were in long-term memory and the environmental movement made a literal breakthrough on dams.

The metamorphosis of Marc Jacobs, however, seems to be the work of a brilliant performance artist making a literal spectacle of himself.

Now theatre, too, is moving into ordinary people's homes, making a literal reality of kitchen-sink and drawing-room drama.

"In polling the week after, we learned that among the same 1,500 people there was more of a desire to touch D.C., an interest in making a literal connection.

She added, as if to assure us that she was not making a literal comparison: "It's a play, it's a work of art, it's not Encyclopaedia Britannica.