literalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Or to literalize the notion that, duh, relationships can be scary?
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2023
In her revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “The Piano Lesson,” LaTanya Richardson Jackson decided to literalize the ghost of the white slave owner, Sutter.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022
Something about Knott froze in childhood, leaving a body of work marked by the child’s tendency to literalize imaginative schemes.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017
Jackson, whose husband spent 28 years as an entertainment writer for MacLean’s, obviously intends her stories to literalize the intimate, powerful role that icons can play in the mundane doings of the hoi polloi.
From Slate • Nov. 11, 2016
He refused to tolerate, as well, sundry vagrant imaginings which rose to cluster about and literalize the romance of her youth which Sister Soulsby had so frankly outlined.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold
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