Sentence examples for play literal from inspiring English sources

Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard also not involved in the study, noted that the researchers did not play literal phrases recapping the memory, like "the cat is in the lower left," but instead sound cues associated with a picture and a spatial task.

In San Francisco, the only North American stop, the torch-bearers played literal hide-and-seek with protesters when the route was suddenly changed for security reasons.

American OSS man Randolph Benjamin Joness, who will get even more out of the part as he goes along) plays literal and figurative footsie with Chinadoll (slinky, inscrutable Roseanne Ma), while he also taunts nightclub singer Simone Katie Lee Hilll, trembling and seductive) over whether he'll deliver her transit papers.

"They stay where they are" are the play's literal and symbolic last words.

"The play is literal, and there's also a heightened, abstract aspect".

She has taken on a grand Greek acting style here, but the theater is too intimate and the play too literal for the bluster.

During this 90-minute show, translated from the Spanish by Andrea Thome, three actors play with literal and psychological light and shadow.

She's charismatic and knowing, and despite playing a literal psychopath, she brings warmth and a great sense of humour (helped, of course, by Waller-Bridge's sensational script, which is easily the best thing about the show) to her performance.

Then I made a video with Michael Pope that portrayed a very literal play-by-play of what was being related in the song.

An almost literal play-by-play of what happens in each episode, the book itself is divided into five chapters, each one devoted to one of the shorts.

Mr. McElroen's production turns the play into a literal circus.