literalness
- a word derived from literal.
Example Sentences
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I’m thinking specifically about the beautiful monstrosity called, with knuckle-dragging literalness, the “pancake burger.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2023
Lewandowski’s similar point about Trump’s literalness offered this implication.
From Slate • Dec. 5, 2016
The director didn’t seem to trust his audience to take those seminal Christian events seriously unless he presented them with dogged literalness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2016
To admit that the literalness of film might surpass the stimulus to the imagination of Austen’s language.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2016
Like Charles, he had stopped believing in the literalness of the Bible.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
