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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 would not have him bound by any precedent or any self-imposed law of literality.
From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean
There is no mystery about them; they'll depose to the literality of the symptoms.
From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
It is expounded in all the emphatic details of its gross literality by their authoritative doctors, and is dwelt upon with unwearied reiteration by the Koran.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
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