Sentence examples for this literal from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, this literal voyage of the eye is on an epic scale.

This literal diminution of his stature can reduce his metaphorical stature, too.

As performed here, this literal, and visually striking, illustration of an abstract notion is quite moving.

They have all signed up, eager to cash in on this literal windfall.

A painter could not achieve this literal metaphor, the perfect coincidence of religious belief and aesthetic form.

But the point is that the It Follows demon is a satirical inversion of this literal case.

This literal-mindedness has stuck with me; one result of it is that I am unable to believe in God.

This literal-minded movie sells old pieties and washes away fear so thoroughly that it creates a new kind of fantasy, in which all's right with a very troubled world.

There will be time to assess the influence of this literal-minded and lavishly realistic production on an opera world where high-concept, sometimes imaginative, sometimes convoluted stagings of the "Ring" are the norm.

He also wrote a book called "Railway Law for the 'Man in the Train' ".The central irony is that this literal-minded man, for whom truth was something verifiable, like the 07.39 to Birmingham, became the baffled victim of a grotesque fantasy.

What was the point of this too literal rendering?