Example Sentences

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Sometimes the feeling is fey; other times the literalization of song ideas flirts with corniness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024

Her quest is ultimately existentialist, a literalization of Sartre’s inexactitudes.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

Interspersed throughout are brief descriptions of Ettore’s photographs, which become a material plot point that draws him and Hirut together decades later, while also working as a canny literalization of the Homeric metaphor.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2019

He seems to leave home only to buy chocolate at a local newsstand or, once, after noticing a pain in his foot, to have an ingrown toenail removed, an apt literalization of his enervating self-involvement.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

Laughter in the Dark is a literalization of the axiom, "Love is blind."

From Time Magazine Archive