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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
Truly, if the Positivist motto, "Live for others," be taken in stark literality, the modern workman should be a good and wise man, since he has no chance of living for himself!
From Signs of Change by William Morris
It is also, in all its uncompromising literality, a direct and inevitable part of the system of doctrine which, with insignificant exceptions, professedly prevails throughout Christendom at this hour.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
"We are to act practically—according to the literality of the legal, implied, figurative, allegorical significations of the Great National Compact under a legitimate construction."
From The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper
One her coarse sense by metaphors expounds, And one in literalities abounds; In mood and figure these keep up the din: Words multiply, and every word tells in.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
We can gather clear and definite ideas from the significant hieroglyphics of symbolical language, but the literalities of history written in advance would be worse to decipher than the arrow-headed inscriptions of Nineveh.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson
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