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If her description of “the Factory” strikes a superficial note, we can ascribe its stripped-down literality to Natsuki’s automaton identity.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2020
The Danny Boyle–directed fantasia on British history flirted with campiness in its intense chronological literality and sheer theatrical bulk, but style aside, the pageant of excess was prime territory for true camp.
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2013
It is also, in all its uncompromising literality, a direct and inevitable part of the system of doctrine which, with insignificant exceptions, professedly prevails throughout Christendom at this hour.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
We would not have him bound by any precedent or any self-imposed law of literality.
From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean
When the vision faded he took refuge in symbolism or literality.
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
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