Sentence examples for with literal from inspiring English sources

Zack Brown's sets evoke drabness with literal exactitude.

Many skiers are content with a perfectly executed run, complete with literal swooshes.

She seduces him with literal and figurative smoke that she blows into his face.

As always with literal translations, the result is often clumsy and sometimes scarcely intelligible.

"I have been reckless with literal meaning, and laboured hard to get the tone", he said.

He got away with literal murder for so long not through felonious talent, but luck.

Metaphoric images, which float miragelike when heard in song, are nailed down with literal visual equivalents.

Siberia's original location in a subway station on West 50th Street made it the only bar with literal underground cred.

Mr. Macdonald and the screenwriter, Jeremy Brock, observe the "no girls allowed" rule with literal-minded rigor.

But both were radiantly, unapologetically happy to be watching Mr. Callow's guided tour of the seven ages of Shakespeare's life (with literal-minded annotations from the canon), which was playing to a packed house at Trafalgar Studios on Monday night.

But the reason farce has endured for as long as humans have been around to write it has nothing to do with literal-minded cavils about passports and Google images.