Sentence examples for understand literally from inspiring English sources

There is nothing on my record that you can't understand literally".

I ask you this coming Tuesday to understand literally what is at stake".

It's impossible to work with people you don't understand (literally and figuratively).

And the word "man" has to be understood literally here.

The second element, to be understood literally, appears to contradict the first.

Yet the fact that the puzzle, understood literally, is a non-mystery doesn't really matter, because its true significance has always been more metaphorical than scientific.

IN A country where more than 80% of the people describe themselves as Christians and two-thirds believe that the Bible, as the word of God, should be understood literally, President Jacob Zuma's warning was taken to heart.

This simultaneously learned and plainspoken guide dissects every aspect of the novel, from titles to antiheros to how different writers describe weather and phone conversations, and explains heteroglossia in terms that my Aunt Ruth from "over the mountain" would have understood ("literally, 'many-voicedness'").

Using similar criteria, the GSS puts Catholicism among moderate denominations because it teaches that the Bible cannot be understood literally, but is subject to interpretation by the Church.

Anything within the scope of this operator is asserted to be true in the named story; what is outside its scope is to be understood literally.

Ibn Daud is convinced that philosophy can help to distinguish between the verses that should be understood literally and those that are in need of interpretation.