Sentence examples for mean literal from inspiring English sources

The actual temple ceremony doesn't promote anything so specific, just promises of blessings from obedience that have been interpreted by some to mean literal blessings of safety.

"Well, they didn't mean literal death.

When I say I work to inscribe object-to-object fault lines of relata distortion on equal ontologically flattened footing with humans, 'fault lines' can also be taken to mean literal painterly reconciliations; precisely that which must behave like scar tissue, as evidence of paying dues, earning injuries and also healing.

(a) "Of course, I didn't mean the literal gates of Hell.

ADAM GOPNIK: Sorry — do you mean the literal translators — the ones that go from French to English or whatever?

If you've ever wanted your dreams to come true, let's hope you don't mean your literal nocturnal dreams.

By truth I don't mean a literal retelling of my biography, which covers Capote's entire life of nearly 60 years.

Most geologists teaching at Christian colleges in the United States today say they do not believe in a young earth; they typically argue that a "day" in Genesis does not necessarily mean a literal 24-hour day, or that there could have been long gaps between the days.

DL: (laughs) No, I mean a literal weather report that I used to do.

By which I mean the literal under-10s at the big well-run children's zone.

Joan asks Evan to leave the Ark and believes that maybe God did not mean a literal flood, but a metaphorical one.