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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
I shall not attempt to describe it more than I have already done, for the most absorbing wonder of it was its literality.
From The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art by Binyon, Cicely Margaret Powell
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
This is absurd, hence the literality must be given up.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert
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