Sentence examples for original literal from inspiring English sources

But in its original literal sense, "women who rock" describes this week's artist pair, two women whose voices could rock the roof right off the venue.

Thus, the word lost all trace of its original literal meaning of military defense, and in Algeria murābiṭ came to be used for the tomb, usually domed, in which a pious man is buried.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy conceded Thursday that the Constitution is not meant to be interpreted in its original, literal state, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Dear friends who treat the Constitution as some holy scripture from God and who think they have divined the correct, original, literal, interpretation of it: News Flash!

It's a measure of globalization's success — and hubris, perhaps — that its original icon appears literal and unsophisticated.

The film is a dead ringer for the original in a very literal sense, and this is no more true than for the film's music.

Literally his literal genitals.

While "Let freedom reign" seems like a malapropism, in a literal sense the original phrase "Let freedom ring" is malaprop.

But while it was insipid, it was also Mr. Allen's first single, the concert's only original number and its only literal reminder that there is life beyond "Idol".

The implied violence of the original gives way to a literal-minded bloodbath, with severed heads and limbs and lingering attention to the effects of lupine claws and teeth on human flesh.

The algorithm generates abstraction hierarchies by dropping literals from the original problem definition.