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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
In this case, the shew-bread would be anomalous, a literality thrust into the midst of symbolism.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
One emaciated creature, in the strictest literality worn to the bone, lay stretched on his back, looking so like death that I asked one of the doctors if he were not dying, or dead?
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
Our fathers easily got rid of the difficulty by assuming that Noah never released these species after the Flood, but what shall those do who cannot believe in the literality of Noah's ark?
From Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken
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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