Sentence examples for makes literal from inspiring English sources

Should the reader choose to practice the method alongside Fales, the novel makes literal space for this.

The power of fantasy makes literal (and therefore visible, tangible, sensous) what in our world is only metaphorical.

Emily Eakin on how the "Cloud Atlas" movie makes literal the spiritual connectedness among characters that the book leaves "playfully ambiguous".

(The company uses supertitles.) Happily, Ms. Koniordou and her colleagues bring to the stage a boisterous comic spirit that makes literal comprehension unnecessary.

Graham's talent is for an empathy with killers so complete that he can imagine and then relive their crimes, a tired idea that the show makes literal by rewinding scenes and having Mr. Dancy act out the murders.

It's a vertiginous image that makes literal the characters' sense of disorientation and perhaps, too, the urge pricking at their souls to fling themselves toward a seemingly grotesque fate.

Because when you make literal changes for a readership that takes the Bible literally, you bump up against the fact that men and women in the Bible are not even remotely equal.

It's the Magical Negro trope made literal.

This makes absolute sense to the romantic in me: heartbreak made literal.

What happens is that the show is drained of ideas, its fantasies made literal.

But making literal sense isn't what this show is about.