literalistic
- a word derived from literalism.
Example Sentences
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While Polley’s film — co-written with Toews — doesn’t always ascend to similar heights, once the viewer accepts its mannered style and bluntly literalistic vernacular, it builds to a kind of unadorned grandeur.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023
At minimum, it’s suffocatingly literalistic to argue that Tolkien’s themes can’t survive casting a Black actress as a dwarf princess.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
One of “Annette’s” myriad themes is the fine line between art and artifice, underlined by the repetitive and bluntly literalistic lyrics of Sparks’s songs.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2021
“We have a more literalistic approach that affects the way we negotiate and look at the text,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2015
As Martin J. S. Rudwick puts it, "No geologist of any nationality whose work was taken seriously by other geologists advocated a timescale confined within the limits of a literalistic exegesis of Genesis."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
