Etymology
Origin of literality
Example Sentences
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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
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
Yet there have been epochs in the history of the Christian, and even of the Protestant Church, when its features have been reproduced with too faithful literality.
From The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by Stalker, James
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
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