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At one point he is branded by a slash of ashes across his chest; one of the few instances in which Mr. McGregor’s message of the persecuted outsider, perhaps the homosexual outsider, seems overliteral.

From New York Times • May 30, 2016

The book seems liveliest when Collins turns his guns from atheists on the left to creationists and intelligent designers on the right, urging the abandonment of what he feels are overliteral misreadings of Scripture.

From Time Magazine Archive

In avoiding the overliteral method, however, the translator of the classics sometimes assumed a regrettable freedom, not only with the words but with the substance of his source.

From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross