Etymology
Origin of literality
Example Sentences
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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
"We are to act practically—according to the literality of the legal, implied, figurative, allegorical significations of the Great National Compact under a legitimate construction."
From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore
Truly, if the Positivist motto, "Live for others," be taken in stark literality, the modern workman should be a good and wise man, since he has no chance of living for himself!
From Signs of Change by Morris, William
He is the poet indeed of literality, but of passionate and significant literality, full of indirections as well as directness, and of readings between the lines.
From Poems By Walt Whitman by Rossetti, William Michael
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