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"literal" Definitions
  1. [usually before noun] being the most basic meaning of a word or phrase, rather than an extended or poetic meaning
  2. [usually before noun] that follows the original words exactly
  3. (disapproving) not having or showing any imagination
"literal" Antonyms
liberal loose vague imprecise inaccurate inexact untrue false unfaithful incorrect inauthentic off wrong untruthful fallacious unsound erroneous counterfactual flawed wild fictional fictionalised(UK) fictionalized(US) fictitious figurative metaphorical nondocumentary nonfactual nonhistorical unhistorical approximate abnormal complex complicated counterfeit decorated different difficult dishonest embellished whimsical flexible lenient lax relaxed heedless tolerant unrestricted unrigorous unsecured undetailed unmeticulous unrestrained nonspecific permissive indifferent inexplicit generic blue-sky idealistic impractical unrealistic utopian visionary airy-fairy emotional excited imaginative irrational lively unreasonable alleged illusory purported supposed assumed fake fanciful hidden imaginary imagined reputed abstract conjectural envisaged envisioned fabricated hypothetical nonexistent broad unspecific general rough fuzzy hazy indefinite indiscriminate unfocused sketchy criminal crooked extralegal felonious forbidden illegal illegitimate illicit lawless prohibited proscribed shady smuggled unconstitutional unlawful unlicensed unwarranted wrongful not legal against the law entertaining exciting extraordinary fascinating inspired interesting poetical unusual ambiguous unclear confusing equivocal multivocal obscure inscrutable perplexing indistinct polysemantic polysemic polysemous misleading incomprehensible inconclusive cryptic correction amendment emendation revision modification variation rectification revisal adjustment alteration change amelioration refinement adaptation improvement expurgation perfection precision right success accuracy certainty truth

937 Sentences With "literal"

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When I was there, there wasn't a literal rope, but there was a literal bus that was separate from her literal bus.
Luke Skywalker leaves his life on a farm to join a literal rebellion against a literal Empire.
We've never really seen anything like that before, and, literal win or literal loss, it'd be a huge accomplishment.
And they're hyping themselves into believing that Hillary Clinton is a literal criminal and her election would be a literal theft.
"The president uses the White House as a literal, literal bully pulpit, callously exerting his power over those who have little or none," he said in his remarks.
These stories are powerful because they're metaphorical, and metaphors are more powerful than literal speech because they say more than literal speech in a smaller amount of time.
And a blood bath — literal and figurative — ensues.
So there you have it: It is all about corruption, and this is about as unadulterated as corruption gets in our hallowed democracy, other than literal cash under a literal table.
OK, OK — I'm being cheeky and overly literal here.
Through all of the (literal) blood, sweat and tears ….
They went literal — Ukraine eventually got the military aid.
And, at the same time, collapsing the metaphorical into the literal (as we do all the time in language, and in technology), and vice versa, so that everything is metaphorical, everything is literal.
It's just that her Antichrist is a little less literal.
Konráðsdóttir is a working mom in the most literal sense.
Two years ago, Luis Suarez wore literal knitted Adidas boots.
But call the literal queen of the silver screen overrated?
Daenerys has freed people from chains and commands literal dragons.
The guy becomes a literal giant brain to say this.
As expected, though, her presence caused complete and literal carnage.
No one should take this as a literal political endorsement.
And in the most literal sense possible, it'd be true.
At some point, they're probably tired of getting literal rocks.
That's a literal statement when it comes to Amazon Key.
In two hours, this place will be a literal madhouse.
Did I mention the literal shit all over the toilet?
Jokes aside, Crews is more than just a literal adonis.
Hellblade is a game about a literal descent into madness.
It's a poetic metaphor, yes, but not a literal reality.
Put them in a literal safe or other safe space.
It's a unique collection of storytelling, both literal and aesthetic.
The VictimAndrea Cornish is the literal victim in the series.
But now, girls are wearing #UnicornHair in a literal sense.
She's had to fight an army of literal dead people.
Kitchen Towels Yes, we're being very literal with you, here.
There's a literal cliffhanger at the end of episode one.
The word edge in this context means literal geographic distribution.
And those literal thoughts are protected by those seven words.
It's a small concession, a literal fraction of an inch.
But the literal winner of the race basically doesn't matter.
An obvious structure (a literal, titular skyscraper to be climbed).
It's in a literal ghost out of the machine move.
He gets to think of himself as the literal monarch.
Many, even most, of Logan Paul's fans are literal children.
Yet, before a literal minute has passed in the pilot,
Six (literal) helping hands Ugh, teen boys are the WORST.
They aren't trapped in a confined space in (literal) space.
They're getting away with what might be a literal crime.
Maybe in a more abstract sense than a literal one.
They have been a godsend — literal lifesavers — for so many.
Not just her literal voice, but her her writer's voice.
A MOVING TRAINLong train rides can be a (literal) drag.
However, emoji also take on meaning beyond the literal level.
In a very literal sense, Madaya's problems are national ones.
Who knows the literal underbelly of New York City better?
But don't underestimate the power of literal bags of money.
Trump has his back up against, well, a literal wall.
Obamacare is not, in any literal sense, dead or gone.
Johnson, the First Amendment protects both literal and symbolic speech.
But, for some people, a broken heart is very literal.
Lyrically things are still quite veiled and not too literal.
The literal translation of aloha is peace, love and compassion.
This man who got literal: Best sign ever #MarchForTruth pic.twitter.
Any dissenting viewpoints are taken as literal acts of war.
We are in a literal space of dots and loops.
How about giving them a literal piece of the action?
What, in this literal paradise, could I possibly ever need?
But not so much the literal text of the scriptures.
Breakfast for dinner is great because leftovers become literal breakfast.
SS: Perhaps I'm being too literal but this bothers me.
But we mean "expensive taste" in the most literal sense.
The essay that complements the series offers more literal retellings.
Whereas journalism is the literal conversation that has to say.
Nerds are literal, and no social skills to speak of.
Palumbo: It's the most literal fucking gesture, sending a postcard.
"Not that he believed in literal resurrection," Rabbi Stone said.
His depiction of the border is both literal and figurative.
This pushes Deb over several edges, both metaphorical and literal.
It was trippy — in the literal and the storytelling sense.
There are books about pandemics, isolation, and the literal apocalypse.
Nor are the two stories unrelated in their literal events.
The main difference is, that last part is more literal.
But it's the text that is killed, by literal upstaging.
"Nipped in the bud" took on its most literal meaning.
" Welcome to fictional Fairhaven—"a literal bubble of corporate utopia.
I'm still left with the same questions: Is this literal?
Others start goat choirs alongside salamander breeders and literal ducks.
Maybe memes just makes this process a little more literal.
" There is a special problem with the phrase "literal truth.
But however it may sound, it's also the literal truth.
But other "Tales" episodes are more literal and less interesting.
The literal transmutation of money into time: A Private Jet.
Elizabeth Warren has a literal plan to break it up.
"It is the literal mouse version of him," said Freed.
Instead, more literal sartorial messaging seems to be in style.
Just like the literal most tactile approach to this whatsoever.
It's a literal translation of a very personal childhood fear.
But then so did literal Nazis and actual white supremacists.
Maybe it's that she is so grimly literal about everything.
The literal impact of cheer becomes a visceral, shared experience.
But "Olive Kitteridge" is provincial only in a literal sense.
"It was a literal game of telephone," said Ms. Thompson.
Apple should go back to naming products after literal apples.
But with Motorola, the words took on a literal meaning.
Togo was also a literal underdog right from the start.
Certainly the characters in the Ocean's films aren't literal superheroes.
Start your visit with a literal taste of the city.
What tools — literal and online — are you using to prepare?
Next come two dancers snorting a literal pyramid of cocaine.
Once in a while, people like to be really literal!
The film's overarching theme is that its horrors are literal.
Players leapt into the rafters, sometimes attended by literal flames.
It's just another way of saying that F.D.R. and Eleanor Roosevelt were distantly related (fifth cousins, once removed.) • 30D: Even with a puzzle theme this literal, we're not going literal with this particular clue.
So we're not ready to believe it's just for the sake of divine intervention or foreshadowing (after all, the literal symbol on the Stark sigil was killed by the literal symbol of the Baratheon sigil).
Needlemouse is the literal translation of the Japanese word for hedgehog.
It is an intention, more than it is a literal promise.
Meeting in-laws is hard enough without them being literal monarchs.
All of a sudden, the Freeform series' title makes literal sense.
Do yourself a favor and follow this literal angel right now.
The Venezuelan artist's work is exacting in the most literal sense.
As exact as Fish's works (maps) are, they never become literal.
And she means that in both the figurative and literal sense.
It was Gloria Steinem fan fiction in the most literal sense.
Tearing apart a tree for its cascading petals is literal destruction.
Having cops laugh at you is a literal Midwestern Dad nightmare.
Fitting that a literal puppet would cop to loving the movie.
In the case of Renate Schroeder Dolphin, that construction became literal.
Literal Nazi Richard Spencer punched in the face, #Hamilton remix pic.twitter.
Wicked Weed's Hop Cocoa Beer is a literal boozy hot cocoa.
It's a literal radar chip at the top of the phone.
One theory was that The Kid was a literal sin eater.
But that was a logistical guideline, not a literal security rule.
There are a literal million reasons why a match can flop.
For lack of better words, she seems like a literal doll.
Sacrifice was quite literal for line officers in World War 2.
Ariana Grande is a dangerous woman in the most literal sense.
The need for a safe space is literal for trans women.
Will we make it to 2019 without a literal presidential fight?
I have a literal picture of a prawn on my arm.
The connections between the two parts are neither obvious nor literal.
For one thing, "high crimes and misdemeanors" didn't mean literal crimes.
For one thing, "high crimes and misdemeanors" didn't mean literal crimes.
He once told me my work was interesting because it's literal.
Kids will play with literal dirt and rocks, you fools. 15.
OK so right out of the gate this is extremely literal.
Replaced by choices blunt and literal, ambiguity is conspicuously absent here.
Now, Cardi is helping Minaj secure the bag with literal bags.
Confinement, literal and figurative, is a central theme of the film.
At other points there are also literal buckets of bloody water.
The last two season of nightmares befell literal 15 year olds.
Men are trash, he figured—why not just date literal garbage?
In literal terms, Intermural Art means Art in between the walls.
He disrupted dates and had literal chicken nuggets thrown at him.
It's not your fault Twilight is a literal poison to society.
This was the literal closing of a chapter in her life.
Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall are literal party animals!
Turla and Balliet are hands-on in a very literal way.
It's also a very literal interpretation of cloud computing itself, e.g.
However, this clip of a literal human catapult is legitimately insane.
That would be elitism, like in its most literal active form.
In those days, there was a literal tape, plus another tape.
It's just so over the top with literal sweetness and sentiment!
Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd's love story is a literal fairytale.
It's a literal symbol of true capitalism in this modern era.
For Kelly, though, the scope of her hunger was quite literal.
What's clear, however, is that the water smelled like literal shit.
Wrap your arms around yourself to make the warm embrace literal.
But that's a great example of like—it's just not literal.
The only question is whether it's a figurative or literal shitstorm.
NOCHIXTLÁN, Mexico — The battle over education here has suddenly turned literal.
But maybe my viewing arrangement provided some (literal) long-range perspective.
A Ghost Story: The most literal movie title since Monster Trucks.
Literal riff lord Scott Gorham plays guitar in Thin Lizzy, i.e.
Dr. Cheng adopts a literal approach to making math more appetizing.
Is Tom a literal ghost/spirit or more like a feeling?
I'm picturing literal steam coming out of his ears. http://bit.
Develop lower-back pain from literal, not figurative, weight of book.
Isabel Marant was more literal, with looks that resembled space suits.
Now my brain felt calcified and literal, the effects of aging.
This last at least is literal: grapes, blackberries, the ripest plums.
There was, in a very literal sense, nothing to play for.
" "Until he says a literal N-word or something like that.
In exile he has become a literal clown, performing for kids.
Battle of the Sexes gave me tennis lewks and literal looks.
No, this is somehow still a very literal problem in Henryetta.
From its Greek origins, stigma signified a literal mark or brand.
Some of those ticking clocks may be more literal than others.
Actual, literal fireworks because, again, this is The Bachelorette after all.
It was a moment that made literal the stagnation of globalization.
"The Waverly Gallery" is his most literal presentation of that inadequacy.
The movement here does not illustrate the words in literal terms.
In my own life, this was true in a literal sense.
A literal sex robot becomes the head of a television network.
We are looking at like a literal decimation of the economy.
It's been a week: Storms of the literal and verbal kind.
He suggested a symbolic, if not literal, torching of Confederate statues.
I don't gravitate to a literal interpretation of the Bible certainly.
The computer created much more literal keywords: person, street, dark, gray.
"I often think of myself as a literal investment," she said.
Some sites, literal crossroads of history, bring together two contradicting stamps.
There may also be some more literal reasons for the ghosts.
That was a life-changing experience, too, in the literal sense.
Messam might actually have been, but in a more literal way.
He made the United States a literal laughingstock before the world.
Meanwhile, Henriette, in literal ghost form, haunts the streets of Budapest.
It was the literal end of their imperial way of life.
In a literal sense, Sanders was the winner of the primary.
How she chooses to express it, though, can feel overly literal.
In the song, Wi-Fi is both literal subject and symbol.
But that would be true in only the most literal sense.
"I wouldn't worry too much about being literal, honestly," Korelitz said.
There isn't much that is direct or literal in the book.
Mr. Piccioli at Valentino was literal about his quest for beauty.
Remixed to be sure, but nevertheless too literal to look modern.
A bunch of literal drones carried designer bags down a runway.
For its first few centuries, it mostly referred to literal poisons.
Lydia Lee: RiceBox, in literal meaning in Cantonese, is called lunchbox.
Don't believe the literal reading that the song concerns two people.
Young or old, we're all a generation of literal test cases.
" Then, you and other investors say, "It's serious, not literal craziness.
Barbed wire is as literal a symbol of oppression as exists.
In one town they visit, a mailman delivers a literal letter.
It is as literal a biblical adaption as I've ever seen.
Learn from 2016 and keep office gossip at the literal watercooler.
Obviously, it's a jar for our brain—it's a literal container.
The only person who can save her from this literal living hell?
The remedy is there on the earth, free for the literal picking.
Medicaid "work requirements" are not requirements to work in a literal sense.
These rice-infused treatments are a lot less literal than they sound.
Well, it's a burrito with literal Cheetos stuffed inside of it…duh.
"SMOKEY" has been unmasked, and probably regrets leaving a literal paper trail.
Like, literal years before the Anna Kendrick movie become a national sensation.
This is a life-or-death situation in the most literal sense.
Modern conventions do not, in a literal sense, do anything that matters.
This season, he pulled off a literal mic drop at a presser.
Or is that too literal to think about this sort of thing?
Making a horror film independently, there's a literal threshold for the financing.
A closeted gay lunatic sitting on the ground of a literal closet.
If you have heard literal whispers around the internet, it's probably ASMR.
The principal reason for this decline is saturation, both literal and conceptual.
Bloghag, I couldn't be less qualified to debate a literal professional psychiatrist.
But she also had hunger, he said, even in a literal sense.
BOOM, SHE IS A LITERAL IMMORTAL BANSHEE WITH CRAZY EYES AND CLAWS.
The songs' composers crack wise with literal-minded setups for each number.
Mexico fans caused a literal earthquake after their team's World Cup win.
To Drollinger, the Bible is more than the literal word of God.
Someone else's dish could have literal raw bones and trash in it.
As soon as you talk in literal terms, people's brains shut off.
Love & Hip Hop's Cardi B is like a literal well of knowledge.
Rarely does a metaphorical crossroads take place at such a literal one.
"The Katrina story, to me, is a literal American crime," Paulson said.
Today, Jules P. Markey makes us take notice of literal CROSS REFERENCES.
Their literal job is to come up with witty puns and punchlines.
Also, what image is "escapism" in the most literal sense like "beaches"?
Children were being held as literal hostages in a legislative negotiating strategy.
And in a literal sense, the mash-up picture turns him black.
Just ahead, the highway passed over the railway tracks, a literal crossroads.
However, his words here may apply to literal Black dreams as well.
That is, until it went for an all-too-literal zebra shoe.
"This literal s— is happening out there, folks," the image's caption concluded.
She stumbles in with her literal trash painting and admires Opal's home.
No more strange literal dictionary definitions while traveling, for the most part.
"She's a literal doll," Khloé wrote, adding multiple cat heart-eyed emojis.
The world gets better the more we empower our literal better half.
Currently, "some personal news" straddles the line between the literal and ironic.
The literal presence of life models is also emerging more and more.
Seriously: Can't you already picture how literal the designer tributes would be?
From the literal first second of the dramedy, we know Midge Maisel.
We don't repeat each physical action we're taught in a literal way.
A literal Tea Partier, dressed in colonial gear and in full character.
It weighs nine pounds, which makes carrying it around a literal pain.
This is where you will find the literal, actual definition of woke.
The film's title is a literal reference to the attack Saba survived.
Sabrina summons literal hell flame to obliterate the 13 witches' souls forever.
Despite the literal definition, amusement parks are not all fun and games.
Game development is a risky business — in the literal sense, that is.
She read it while wearing a literal gilded veil and symbolic dress.
I drank that drink, which in hindsight, might have been literal poison.
Goose sat in the literal back seat and paid the ultimate price.
Yes, you heard that right: The shop has a literal glaze waterfall.
And how much does the literal truth of these experiences even matter?
They subscribed to these sites in all but the most literal sense.
All this and a literal song featuring David Hasselhoff. David. Hasselhoff. Really.
Does it cheapen earlier plot points when thematic elements ignore literal narrative?
What we do is not for everybody, in a very literal way.
People in backwaters, both figurative and literal, choose cities all the time.
I'm saying this because it's hot as literal F in the desert.
When she and daughter Blue Ivy were picture perfect, literal angels. 223.
It's a pretty literal take on the whole notion of wearable gamification.
If you want to get literal, you gotta look at the Greek.
The PLL villains are weirdly obsessed with putting people in literal boxes.
It's the past and the present juxtaposed in a very literal way.
Interestingly, not all the feelings of distress are so literal or specific.
For others, a swelling womb threatens their integrity—their literal self-possession.
"The images should not be interpreted in a literal sense," Whitley says.
That is why the end to this literal crime is so satisfying.
It's a metaphor made literal: She exposes far too much of herself.
That would give me literal scabs and burns for the longest time.
Bright and mostly blue, it's a literal island in our solar system.
She plays a literal queen in Black Panther and not without reason.
Not the literal devil, of course — just a character who symbolizes him.
"Finding a literal box of photos—that's cinematic license," Gordon told me.
With makeup, de Mey brought a similarly literal translation to models' faces.
The most symbolic can be the most literal, as is the opposite.
Slight adjustments result in far less of a literal headache for Rothwell.
But as a critic, it's my literal job to assert an opinion.
There was a literal tape of him ho-hoing about sexual assault!
Entering the cramped alleyway felt like walking into a literal tourist trap.
This is the literal physical result of the Bush administration's AIDS policies.
The cup's strange and very literal name reflects its bizarre initial format.
It's the very literal version of being uncomfortable in your own skin.
But as I approached the literal Ringed City, someone invaded my game.
Mr. Allen's literal voice, which supplies narration, sounds unusually sluggish and weary.
But Dawson's assured success as a literal makeup newcomer defies that understanding.
"Wu Tang Forever" is a literal reunion of the Wu-Tang Clan.
On a literal level, nearly everything she rapped that night was untrue.
The library is a literal ivory tower full of scholarly magic-users.
He is menaced by racist skinheads and thwarted by literal-minded bureaucrats.
The new documentary Faces Places paints a quite literal portrait of France.
The wall's importance as a symbol has even influenced its literal form.
We also think poetry is inaccessible, but in a more literal sense.
He's not a literal rockstar; he's a prototype, a paradigm, an archetype.
In both cases, the literal implications of the policy changes are modest.
The shipping containers and crane are the literal implements of global capitalism.
Were metaphors first being processed in the literal sense, and then metaphorically?
But these are not literal depictions; something is happening in these spaces.
But this is too literal an interpretation of the lessons of history.
It's an idea that could have been exploitative, manipulative or literal-minded.
Mr. DeCarava did not create politicized social documentary photographs that were literal.
Vertical integration could help me address this literal deficit in my portfolio.
And when we say pay, we mean it in the literal sense.
The gases are then respired out of the lungs: literal fart breath.
The collection of our loan payments through taxes is a literal godsend.
I think people — particularly this younger generation — are a little too literal.
Then he was made a literal slave to meth-dealing white supremacists.
The action in Birds of Prey kicks off with a literal bang.
This show is "Explain it to me like I'm 5," made literal.
The walk down the aisle is a literal and figurative letting go.
"People would complain in a literal utopia," he says with a laugh.
And also the literal passing of seconds and minutes of the trip.
Was it the actual, literal violin that has been Luce's (secret) life?
Your sexting game is about to get a whole lot more literal.
I had debts, figurative and literal, and I needed to work more.
Folks are missing how these policies disproportionately target literal children of color.
He brought a literal dead "swamp rat" with him to a hearing.
Some things may make more literal sense before the series is over.
Its office has a literal custom-made Monopoly board on their wall.
In New York, I've discovered that same sensation in less literal terms.
Of course, in a literal sense, it has always been sparsely furnished.
Some believe Mr. Ayah's prophecies are literal, others believe they are allegory.
Yo no iba a estar allí siempre para limpiarlos, literal o figurativamente.
What is "nonjudgmental" when relapse often results in literal judgment and jail?
But likely few people care about a literal question of academic administration.
Try convincing your most literal-minded friend to see it with you.
People expect you to be quite literal, and a book is subjective.
In some cases, the curators provide literal projections to make their point.
And for many, using Facebook is also a literal and direct requirement.
Literal and illusive elements, sculptural means and pictorial effects, are brilliantly fused.
But he's clearly not just interested in a literal representation of their experiences.
I remember literal electricity shooting through me and out me from every direction.
But this C-clamp — it's too literal, it just is what it is.
It&aposs because it&aposs a literal lottery, like it&aposs a chance.
Duff's pint-sized cutie is the literal embodiment of the heart eyes emoji.
Cruz: That's intended to be a lot less literal than you might think.
Like many cliches, "flying under the radar" has a literal, real-world history.
It's a literal name for what happens there after scores are read out.
And he brought his literal mother, Amy Davidson, on SNL to prove it.
Mobility is both literal and figurative — the opposite of stasis, which suggests entrapment.
Not a figurative one to wake him up, either — a very literal one.
If you need a literal glaring reminder to drink water, consider this bottle.
Overcooked 2 turns the idea of cooperative cooking into a literal video game.
Lindsay Lohan is weighing in on her mom Dina Lohan's (literal) mystery man.
Elon Musk says Tesla's upcoming supercar will fly, possibly in a literal way.
While Bonfire's logo features a literal bonfire, Houseparty's logo is a solo cup.
Telling me what's going on with sports teams is your literal fucking job.
Even the film's title, "Downhill," makes literal the state of something in decline.
Some people also appeared to think "Parasite" was a movie about literal parasites.
So yes, you can now play Raffi's "Bananaphone" on a literal banana phone.
Anyway, those are fine, but regular Easter eggs — like, literal eggs — are better.
Responding to questions from Robert Mueller is President Trump's literal moment of truth.
With the Waterford household in literal ruins, June is transferred to Joseph's home.
"The Katrina story, to me, is a literal American crime," Paulson told Deadline.
The man's literal brand is that anti-fascists are violent and loathe him.
People were pelting him with milkshakes and eggs, adding literal insult to injury.
Employees must also believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis and Jesus Christ.
Avis — charm that creates a flock of birds This one is quite literal.
In other words, don't take these as literal promises—speech acts—at all.
Not only in the physical, literal sense, but as an extension of myself.
There's even a chapter that plays out like a literal horror comic book.
"It may not be as literal as a kale salad recipe" Shmidman says.
In Davidson's case, it is partly literal — at least based on Grande's tweets.
It would be romantic if it weren't the literal end of the world.
Nearby, you can see fired Twitter executives bailing out with literal golden parachutes.
None of them believe the Torah is the literal word of God anymore.
Yes, we're ready to air our dirty laundry in the most literal sense.
The trench's literal deepest depth isn't much further down, at approximately 36,200 feet.
My aesthetic: Brie Larson not clapping for literal trash hole casey affleck pic.twitter.
Obviously it's true in a literal sense that one thing isn't the other.
John Cameron Mitchell's film adaptation makes the metaphorical literal in a different way.
In one case, "encouragement" took the shape of a giveaway for literal diamonds.
The literal answer lies somewhere in the particulars of the world Kelly inhabited.
A love letter to a time gone by and a literal fairy tale.
A poster for Hamilton spotlights Alexander Hamilton as played by a literal pig.
It's a literal pantomime of the stuff kids might think to search for.
He's been pulling the strings the entire season, a literal deus ex machina.
Because a lot of stuff is very much literal and one-to-one.
Literal tons of mummified feline remains have been discovered in past Egyptian excavations.
He mocks his male rival's mincing words and literal lack of a penis.
Infrastructure has been the literal, and figurative, foundation of America since Route 66.
It's not a satisfying story, but it's not really about the literal story.
The result is a literal interpretation of seeing life through someone else's eyes.
For Mabika, judo offered a literal way out of her war-torn homeland.
Most recently, however, he's been devoting his time to hunting for literal treasure.
It's not explicit, of course; nobody involved in Theranos was a literal vampire.
There are few groups safer to shoot in video games than literal Nazis.
After all, Clinton did plenty of finger pointing, literal and figurative, as well.
The penultimate episode of Homeland season 6 goes out with a literal bang.
The test tunnel experience was bumpy in both the literal and figurative senses.
Everyone feels like we're a few heartbeats away from a literal apocalypse. Cool!
One of Alphabet's most ambitious projects isn't a literal "moonshot," but it's close.
In the literal version, she's posing as a terrorist who's decapitated the President.
In the Middle East, the walls separating the Israelis and Palestinians became literal.
So why not turn this metaphorical battle into a literal one as well?
A literal animal was first to lay down their weapon, so to speak.
That is her literal character description so get ready for some angst. pic.twitter.
This election might be the literal manifestation of the tagline for Alien vs.
There's holographic unicorn French manis, literal weed nails, and functional snow globe tips.
We're not too sure about the legality of doing a literal Where's Waldo?
This was a very literal limitation prior to aircraft, and, later, satellite surveillance.
Memory, then, looks like literal shifting patches of light, given the right conditions.
For others, myself included, this is the literal description of The Happy Place.
But expert opinion is out of step with these literal and legislative marches.
For one thing, it is not a literal request to delete your account.
"It was a literal experience and a formative experience," said Glassman in 1996.
Now Uber is capitalizing on being the literal connection between customers and merchants.
Instead of hiding information, other musicians have used literal masks to attempt anonymity.
He sees almost literal "pigs" who have grown fat at the public trough.
On occasion, these allusions can be literal to the point of seeming silly.
In this case, it's referring to a literal fast, which means to STARVE.
The popularity of "Mom" as an affectionate, not-literal term gets cheekily parodied.
The next cold war with Russia may be a literal vice metaphorical one.
However, the literal "price" paid is something that needs to be addressed immediately.
His jazz is both experimental, in the literal sense, and ex post facto.
At 503, both men are regarded as techno music's spiritual and literal godfathers.
An overly literal bit of business at the end slightly undermines the film.
Mr. Sessa has constructed a grid where the crossed references are quite literal.
The start/stop sound is the literal start of the Zimmer-BMW partnership.
Malta, an archipelago, is an almost literal stepping stone from Africa to Europe.
The land of thousands of literal rose-colored glasses and Fashion Nova 'fits.
There are literal tents where revelers can get their makeup and hair done.
Nextdoor.com. I'm a fan of the literal dot-com domain name, I guess.
Yet there's also a comic book texture to the literal and figurative overkill.
But this contention relies on a rather literal, and implausible, definition of democracy.
Nothing's a literal take, of course—we tend to keep it more conceptual.
But Trump's literal claim is that 8723 million people have left the workforce.
Distant regions are places where bounty can be gained, both literal and metaphorical.
A museum, on the other hand, is a literal, official place of learning.
Like, he had a literal day named after him by Atlanta's city council.
Nauseatingly, there are many other instances of men using literal crap against women.
While the work is about poverty, it breaks from many literal, historical representations.
Thankfully none of them literal, unlike in 2017 when its phones started exploding.
Probly not, so we'll just say eeesh, this looks like our literal nightmares.
Later episodes introduce literal "PC cry-babies," upset by everything without understanding why.
The word "revival" becomes literal: let's make this thing live again, but differently.
Almost too literal, the sculpture represents a phallus destroying a symbol of machismo.
It changed how they assessed the literal and figurative cost of free speech.
How wasn't she prepared for an ambush when she's fighting a literal pirate?
Only some really engrossing, groundbreaking, must-play content can justify this literal headache.
This is the year I decided to put down literal roots in Lincoln.
In other words, they take a nonliteral colloquialism and turn it more literal.
They were upset because it's a reference to literal slavery, by white women.
For weeks—literal weeks—he went about his life with a bum shoulder.
Let's revisit the theme answers, in order, with that "literal hint" in mind.
This is more of a literal interpretation, like when a bull GOREs someone.
It's a thinly veiled metaphor for Western tools with a literal Western viewpoint.
No two Snowflake releases are the same (you know, like a literal snowflake).
The task is Sisyphean as each day delivers literal waves of new trash.
Suddenly, "cleaning up the streets" took on a more literal — and urgent — dimension.
Much of early Baroque music would use rests in such a literal way.
At Soul Train Utica, now in its seventh year, the train is literal.
Meghan and Harry stepped on to the gold carpet looking like literal royalty.
Maybe it was overhyped, or maybe it was too close to (literal) home.
It's the ultimate work-life balance; a literal melding of business and pleasure.
But it turns out that the portal to the strange is the literal.
Antecedent incidents underscore the perilous ramifications; a literal 2017 stampede injured 16 people.
Welcome back 🛴 I'm having flashbacks to juicing literal truckloads of these pic.twitter.
How many folks do you know keep their 2FA on their literal keychain?
I had a look at the shower suites, which were literal interior goals.
It would have been a literal sentence for immigrant families needing medical help.
But Manafort still needed a little help from his literal partner in crime.
To mistake them for cyborgs is to confuse the figurative with the literal.
"The literal translation is sac à chien ," Sud-Ouest explained, in a tutorial.
It's heartbreaking, provoking literal nausea, with a psychic hangover unlike any other show.
Le District has the feel of a literal-minded love letter to France.
It's an intriguing, romantic bit of poetry, more literary conceit than literal fact.
I had a couple ideas about where the literal stitch line could be.
But its methods are almost defiantly literal, engineered for accessibility and sentimental impact.
Rather than a metaphorical ocean of white, these jellies navigate a literal one.
It should be clear what he's building: It's a stairway to literal enlightenment.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but most chocolate eggs are filled with literal nothing.
And yet, in its best moments, the movie does avoid becoming too literal.
This is, in the most literal sense, a matter of life and death.
What's the literal worst thing you can imagine taking about at a party?
Of the romances that did happen in Hale's life, they left a literal mark.
This industry requires 3D chess — especially when your chief investor is a literal murderer.
I have a literal fierce little baby staff now of all really important women!
Unicorn Cake The unicorn cake is more literal with its majestic frosted mane. 3.
His voice is stronger, both in terms of complex narrative and literal vocal range.
McDonald's is lending a rather literal sheen to the term "golden fries" in Japan.
The blockchain is composed of literal blocks: collections of transactions organized into sequential chunks.
A midseason entry that turns Family Guy–style cutaway gags into a literal evil.
So far, "with very rare exceptions, no one dies of literal thirst", Gleick said.
Here, it was decidedly for the worse, as demons were made literal in paint.
But it's also important that the emoji have references beyond its most literal meaning.
" Sure, using a bottle is a pretty literal way to "sleep like a baby.
And that means everything could use a figurative (or literal) fresh coat of paint.
The ironic thing about Literal Nazis is that they have weaponized taking things literally.
But the slow, romantic jam projects a wistfulness that's clearly not about literal ghosts.
In this case, it's the difficulties of forging a high school tribe made literal.
Much of Sternberg's earliest work, however, is message art and therefore, literal in meaning.
Here, they've turned this very integral aspect of our lives into literal window dressing.
Carter was pilloried for seemingly consulting with a literal child about national security matters.
Docking is my literal nightmare, but we make it back without running into anything.
The potential judgment is no less severe; the carnage differs only in literal terms.
However, Ford's public relations team had other plans, opting for a literal "photo finish".
Comparing undocumented people to literal aliens from another planet can be a trap, though?
It was a literal breath of fresh air in a sea of sterile technology.
From here, Radtke explores abandonment in its more literal, observable manifestation: cities of ruin.
Ask Polly was conceived as an existential column, and that's feeling quite literal lately.
As in, the battery keeps draining and leaving you in the literal freezing cold.
For Gorillaz this manifested as a very literal draining, hollowing out, of the planet.
It's up to viewers to figure out if that blaze is metaphorical or literal.
It captures the near-desperation of people trying to work against the literal machine.
This is the literal embodiment of Zimbabwe's citizens not giving its government any credit.
Suddenly the notion of "sci-fi" bob took on an entirely new, literal meaning.
Sun and motley of colors, because everything is flat, literal, loud, and burnt out.
There was A Tribe Called Quest's literal wall-busting performance with Busta Rhymes and .
And your personal bindings to management companies and record labels sounded like literal hell.
Still, there were other fires to put out, and one of them was literal.
It's important to show up for your responsibilities and fulfill contracts literal and figurative.
I guess I want to mark out a space for literal crime, actual revolt.
At that scale, "a literal cloud of air pollution would disappear," Ramanathan told Mashable.
Onstage, though, everything by necessity has to get just a little bit more literal.
Sometimes the visions people described seemed more allegorical than literal, but no less meaningful.
Four walls create a boundary that provides more figurative and literal security for people.
Planning a visit to a theme park can be a literal roller-coaster ride.
For the Defense Department, $18 billion is an almost literal drop in the bucket.
The HBO adaptation is, instead, structured around very literal events happening in the town.
How about reading complaints about literal dirty laundry being aired on out the internet!
Now the company is putting its literal stamp of approval on a Fujifilm camera.
Many explore the hyphenated identities of the artist, and displacement, both literal and figurative.
We know Justin Bieber's pissed at The Weeknd ... but who knew it was literal?
Perhaps the most literal example is our handwritten signature, a core talisman of identity.
Fortunately my Bible had a footnote to Pslam 34: Taste and see isn't literal.
But where experts begin to stumble is the literal gray area of cephalopod optics.
She deserves the respect of being involved in the retelling of her literal life.
" In fact, the most literal translation for "bingqiu"—Chinese for hockey—is "ice ball.
Entertainment royalty and literal British royalty have come together to make television for Apple.
Most cookies forced us to make trade-offs between flavor and (literal) structural integrity.
Oh, and he even took the unicorn latte concept to a more literal level.
On a literal level, Alice's birth parents have been totally absent from her life.
Film is a very literal, simple articulation of that, of how our lives are.
Theme park Six Flags has even added Gear VR headsets to literal roller coasters.
However, the one thing that isn't typically done is the literal laundering of money.
What never changes is the Doctor's ability to think quickly, down to literal nanoseconds.
On a scale from 1 to LITERAL GARBAGE, today is firmly in garbage territory.
Of course, Buffy sacrifices her own life instead—but that is her literal job.
His heroes in Metal Gear are soldiers, their bodies themselves literal tools of war.
Sure, if you arent bothered by literal ethnic cleansing, it's probably real nice scenery.
You want your actual day in court in the literal sense of the word.
Whether in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) or not literal minefields, more diplomatic.
What is he takes this threat as literal -- and makes moves to counter it?
In the literal sense, it's true that money isn't speech and corporations aren't people.
Diane Williams seeks to stun, in something near the literal sense of the word.
In addition to the flood of tourists, Venice is also plagued by literal floods.
Trump is certainly not the only star facing a literal stripping of his name.
Properly produced lithium-ion batteries should not burn a literal hole in your pocket.
A Literal Bugatti Dealership This appears to be a room full of actual Bugattis.
Your typical savings account earns you just 21.80% at your local bank — literal pennies.
But no musician's been more literal about the work he's doing than Frank Ocean.
Unlike Beyoncé, he offers carpentry that's literal: Mr. Ocean is grainin' on actual wood.
There's been a literal cloud hanging over the southeastern city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
The old Brazilian saying, "Só para inglês ver," started off as a literal description.
She's a literal Queen, so you know her antique collection is seriously impressive. 5.
Of course, Andrew Jackson's other famous legacy is enacting a policy of literal genocide​.
The culprit for the literal shitstorm, it seems, is the changing of the seasons.
Its literal meaning goes back to Native Americans' behavior when they left the reservations.
The literal-minded among us may ask: Where does the big, skeptical man sleep?
We don't like to do literal — it just has the essence of that person.
" Reporter Leon West calls Mike's bluff: "That's the literal definition of bailing something out.
Donald Trump's ascension to the presidency is an unusually literal rebuke to his predecessor.
He'd been setting up the kill shot for a literal decade and a half.
He says he believes in UFOs—inasmuch as we stick to the literal definition.
Mark Simon's job title on LinkedIn couldn't be more literal: Hockey Guy in China.
She finds similarities, an endless wash of creative beginnings, that brings on literal fatigue.
A story about Donald Trump that "just can't be true" in a literal sense.
This is a book about men's violence against women; the sutures are often literal.
You have to be willing to accept answers that are spiritual and not literal.
Our heroine is Maika, a girl with a literal hairy monster inside of her.
So you have the literal same bill, and that bill just works somewhat worse.
Wardrobes, chests, and doors are all slightly ajar, revealing both literal and metaphorical situations.
Follow directions, literal and otherwise, regarding flashlights and high-clearance vehicles, snakes and scorpions.
There's the literal Nazi on the show, but another interesting figure is Frederich Radszuweit.
Put another way, he's deliberately using his Twitter account as a literal bully pulpit.
Layering flat passages of pinkish gray, he teases the literal flatness of the canvas.
How can we not afford the same freedom to literal children and asylum seekers?
Her upcoming collection, which comes out in late spring, will feature literal rainbow arches.
They came as an entirely literal interpretation of classic convention, with an ironic undertone.
To start, do you think of Easter as a literal flesh-and-blood resurrection?
I was finally able to give my husband a literal taste of my past.
Before, Beyoncé was suggesting Venus and Mary; now she's taking on their literal poses.
But the idea that a literal wall would stop coronavirus is fanciful at best.
But 30-odd years later, Blasey answered with a literal metaphor of her own.
Today, food tasting is a dying profession — and no longer in the literal sense.
You can see why Psycrow shipped the literal Switch the levels were modded on.
Nor are Millennials voting like their (and their children's) literal future depends on it.
Not the kind of metaphorical control that implies empowerment or recovery, but literal control.
You might even be accosted by a government agent looking for a literal alien.
Claire Saffitz, pastry chef and literal angel, tackled a beloved trash snack: Bagel Bites.
James Hodgkinson was not part of a network of terrorists, a literal Democratic underground.
"I wanted to acknowledge her sketch, but it wasn't a literal instruction," he said.
Everyone's a literal poser; Parton's meme just puts that effort out in the open.
And the whole time, everyone involved is constantly quantifying their involvement in literal dollars.
There's a wall of literal guns and rifles in the — *checks notes* — dining room.
She's literal, oddly formal for a child, with an understated (and often unintentional) humor.
We do ourselves a disservice when we try to make theater a literal space.
Are you the sort of person who takes financial risks, a literal horse gambler?
In Transnistria, for now, cryptocurrency mining is still flourishing as a literal cottage industry.
I'm not talking about a sprinkle here, I mean a literal pile of paprika.
What we are talking about here is, in some unavoidably literal sense, mind control.
" They described "an almost overwhelming euphoria," dissociation, and "laughing about the literal dumbest shit.
Cities are "purged" of non-human species and witch hunts are quite literal experiences.
The airline does not operate private jets, but sometimes Flybe's passengers include literal royalty.
Your typical savings account earns you just 230% at your local bank — literal pennies.
It's a literal representation of Catherine's rule: a woman, stepping into a man's shoes.
They're going to think it's a glitch and grapple with literal and metaphoric control.
" Doors, in the literal sense, became the center of Ms. Daniels's project, "Into Oblivion.
Her handing of Luke's lightsaber to Rey is a literal passing of the torch.
And memory is an interpretation of the past, not a literal playback of it.
Obsessed with signs and words, she is as literal-minded as she is fanciful.
Like Christians, Muslims have taken the virgin birth of Jesus as a literal truth.
But scores of people sporting all shapes and sizes of literal tin-foil hats?
"  "Don't you suffer extreme discomfort but not literal death every time you drive anywhere?
"The series does not often make literal sense," James Poniewozik wrote in The Times.
One was literal: She took her first-ever ski trip in the French Alps.
On his first day of work, the Secretary showed up in a literal parade.
But it is a powerful symbol, a literal kindling of light against the darkness.
To make a name for yourself in graffiti is a literal statement, after all.
It's fast, and there are literal twists and turns, and I can't look away.
They rolled out a literal red carpet on the sidewalk on West 34th Street.
Obviously, this doesn't mean that you should throw literal garbage in the donations box.
The farther we walk, the more literal the warnings that we shouldn't be there.
Fully 46.2 percent of the tax cuts in the law go to literal millionaires.
Getting to the point: Bonnie Tyler is gonna sing "Total Eclipse" during this literal eclipse.
But what does it mean if your dreams tend to be really boring or literal?
BSO claimed recent speakers Mike Cernovich and Tommy Robinson "pose a literal threat" to them.
This, however, is one luxury that isn't exclusive to the world's literal kings and queens.
This smartly referential visual conversation creates a literal dialogue between the artworks, artists, and styles.
It's entirely possible to analyze literal shit to estimate drug use patterns of whole cities.
In between rounds, ring card girls—literal girls—update the crowd with their numerical signs.
That kind of focused performance is the product of literal decades of practicing a craft.
Siri, you may discover, appears to think President Donald Trump is a literal human penis.
"The Spoils of War" left all our favorite characters in the literal heat of battle.
Van Oorschot's touch DNA discovery had unveiled the most literal expression imaginable of Locard's principle.
Christians celebrate a literal return from death (according to their faith) by Jesus at Easter.
While this was going on, the staff of VICE News had a literal field day.
And getting life's answers so, so wrong in the most human (and literal) way possible. 
It was exciting and weird and small and capable of aiding and abetting literal revolutions.
These literal and figurative strides mean that Tallyrand will soon be put up for adoption.
We followed one full-time, progressive activist as she stalked the literal halls of power.
Only 39 percent of active believers consider the Bible as the literal word of God.
Every person who exits the house has a literal flower growing out of their ear.
I was a virgin in both the literal sense and the never-seen-Rocky sense.
Republicans have been promising the literal opposite of the bill they are trying to pass.
He took the Catholic Church's idea of bare bones faith to an unsettlingly literal degree.
Need I remind you that he has a literal tattoo of Clinton on his body?
Her voice sounds so much stronger, strong and powerful, like her literal voice is stronger.
In frustratingly literal fashion, Presley makes Seppala's race against time difficult to see or appreciate.
A literal rendering of his eyes going out of focus when he's staring at something.
Everything in the Bible is about sustenance -- both literal, like food, and figurative, like faith.
The Sparrows, a threat for two seasons, were eradicated in an instant of literal brilliance.
Indeed, for a few days each spring, Israeli Arabs have a literal monopoly on leaven.
Let's be honest: the classic 1987 jam is the literal musical embodiment of good vibes.
Or if, instead, the show is using the term "hive mind" in the literal sense.
Yes, the two deaths are different — one is literal, the other (temporarily at least) metaphorical.
"Cry Pretty" is her big, honking return, replete with glitter tears and a literal shower.
And when you're talking distance do you mean the literal physical distance, or the feeling?
I also understand that the slogan isn't literal, because that's gross and also physically impossible.
If it's too literal, it's not good; if it's too far off, it's not good.
Ride-or-die friendship is taken to the literal level in the upcoming film Thoroughbreds.
To Morty and Rick's surprise, though, the term "muscle memory" proves more literal than expected.
Even the scary moments that should be considered dreamlike disturbances are suggested to be literal.
I think there may be a literal funnel somewhere and they think it optimizes things.
And on Thursday, the label introduced the latest imagery with a literal pair of siblings.
Given its name, the startup felt like a literal whitewashing of bodegas as an institution.
Hot off his success in Lady Bird, Chalamet, 21, now has a literal cult following.
Great.  You're a button-pusher in both the figurative and literal sense of the word.
"Republicans are nursing a metaphorical, and in some cases literal, hangover this morning," she said.
And like her many-greats-grandfather, she has the literal firepower to back her claim.
I just personally haven't seen that larger dystopian world established beyond (sometimes literal) window dressing.
Many of the entries deal with issues like the literal cost of being an adult.
"I guess now it makes sense as to why he's the literal worst," wrote OhKayeLove.
Get ready for a literal glow-up in 2018, because Fenty Beauty is bringing it.
It was clear that climate change takes a psychological as well as a literal toll.
Cut to today, where our oat milk obsession resulted in a literal oat milk shortage.
Now, the reviews have turned to literal shit, with images of poop and anal porn.
I have spent literal years of my life thinking about — and contributing to — this phenomenon.
WHEN SHE REMINDED US ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCESSORIES Literal beer goggles elevate any ensemble.
The literal end result of this trait is the shortened screw tail they carry around.
It becomes performative grieving, and it runs the risk of just being literal lip service.
However, for Taylor, a five-year-old from Texas, the question is very much literal.
As many artists have discovered, virtual reality can make the question of perspective incredibly literal.
"You are the literal custodians in the vanguard of the new wig reality," Cowsill illuminated.
He kicks a (literal) bucket and finds the missing melon, just as Richard approaches him.
A getaway from the world, set in the literal vacation paradise of the Alola Islands.
The superpowered siblings close the season in the most literal physical embodiment of that era.
Or are they literal PowerPoint pros who only need help in a few other areas?
Now there are literal signs around us in support of her transformation into Tierra Whack.
Rickman played the Metatron, the literal voice of God, in Kevin Smith's comedy about religion.
For one, it's probably the first rom-com with the power to save literal lives.
Actually pulling it off, however, involves a lot of moving parts — both literal and figurative.
And, of course, there was that time Zara put literal swastikas on handbags in 2007.
Shout For Good is an app that gives turns your literal change into social change.
Some San Francisco taxi drivers are turning an airport parking lot into a literal dump.
But we suppose anything's possible for the literal GOAT of football ... according to Jon, anyway.
What was the literal truth about Klaew Thanikul and the camp that bore his name?
He's a Facebook fixture — short of a literal criminal conviction or otherwise reputation terminating incident.
And for him it is another opportunity to "disrupt an otherwise literal medium"—portrait photography.
Tesla's Gigafactory is perhaps the best example of the literal scale of Elon Musk's ambitions.
Her sculptural reconstructions are most effective when camped out somewhere just shy of the literal.
The vision is surreally real, at once literal and symbolic, and the meanings productively multiply.
What's abnormal was the fad for most of the Obama years for very literal campaigning.
A literal cleansing, where you throw out the trash, would also be a great idea!
This gets stuck in my head for literal days every time I listen to it.
Bill Gates' Firey Gauntlet renders our powerlessness literal, and I applaud it for doing so.
Kate Winslet's turn as Ophelia was wrenching, but Branagh as Hamlet wore literal black turtlenecks.
A more literal translation would be "table tip," or tip (of meat) for the table.
That this is the "literal definition" of racism, and therefore the very worst of it.
When the nuclear era dawned, Christians were "on both sides" in a more literal sense.
They are not understood in a tedious, literal fashion designed to frustrate their evident objectives.
If Election Day breaks her way, she will address the nation beneath a literal one.
Everything was being fine-tuned up until the literal last seconds until they're yelling action.
The second factor obscured by the cloud of indignation concerns cultural, rather than literal, capital.
"That writing became self-help in the literal sense, writing to understand myself," he said.
The message from UConn is figurative, while the message from St. John's was very literal.
In times of war, literal or figurative, we need to give thanks more than ever.
After months of hype—and a literal three-hour trailer—Disney+ finally touches down today.
Are the government frightened of the public's hedonism, or the literal space for new ideas?
Some back ultra-conservative or highly literal interpretations of Islam, such as Wahhabism or Salafism.
That's meant in its most literal sense: the game feels, at points, like a movie.
Unleashing the power of these weapons on the game's robotic beasts was a literal blast.
I would spend literal hours watching the Country Music Television channel waiting for Twain's videos.
Both Welles and Hitchcock were larger than life, in both figurative status and literal size.
I had one place I could go on Fridays, but it was a literal crackhouse.
That seriously irks the fact checkers, whose literal job is to find evidence for claims.
But where Glover was clever and imaginative in his messaging, Arbour's piece is embarrassingly literal.
When a dog is the literal eyeballs of a human being, distraction can be death.
Hence, "Machinist": acoustic meets electric, flesh meets metal, the literal articulation of the album's dialectic.
"Passage to Juneau," Jonathan Raban Raban takes the reader on a literal and metaphorical journey.
Completing a marathon can be triumphant — but also heart-rending, in a surprisingly literal sense.
Through all of the (literal) blood, sweat and tears .... giving up was never an option.
"Paytas responded saying "@KEEMSTAR is a literal devil bringing up my drug addiction and shit.
It ran down the surface in thick rivulets as funkily literal as they are associational.
But Sarabia's wish never came true, at least not in the literal sense, he says.
You spent a literal fortune on your race, including $7 million bankrolling Democratic Statehouse races.
Literal hustle, like diving for loose balls and being hospitalized for working out too hard.
Figuring out what Putin's exact thoughts on the American election are — well, it's literal Kremlinology.
The literal and metaphorical backdrops of the COP24 negotiations highlight the enormousness of the challenge.
With his Obama portrait, Wiley moves away from a literal reimagining of a specific painting.
For example, IKEA's Cirkustält "big top" tent sets a literal stage for fantasy and exploration.
As much as the death toll is a literal number, it means so much more.
MBS won't be on trial in Khashoggi's murder — at least not in the literal sense.
At the core of this worldview divide is hope, in its most basic, literal form.
And nowhere was this philosophy made quite so literal than at the Old Country Buffet.
In other words, Russia seems to be doing the literal opposite of what Trump wants.
And like Freddy, he's also the literal, lethal manifestation of the evil of the world.
The literal co-op model came later, after someone pointed out how their goals aligned.
It ended with haymaker after haymaker — both literal and proverbial — from the resilient Pittsburgh Penguins.
I needed literal space, physical space, and I needed space in my head to reflect.
Have I mentioned that my ex-husband is a rock star, in the literal sense?
Several users wrote in support of White, suggesting that she wasn't making a literal argument.
The president uses words not for their literal meaning but for their disorienting emotional impact.
Historians point to the wall as the literal "iron curtain" during the Cold War era.
The choreography Peck created continuously shifts the literal and metaphorical balance of power between them.
But how can we overlook the literal meaning of the words emanating from our mouths?
It approaches the text in ways both abstract and overly literal, sometimes excerpting entire paragraphs.
That's one of the many compelling questions that the latest Literal MSPaint YouTube video asks.
I wear them so much I have worn literal holes through the bottom of them.
It's a good adjective, but it is rarely a literal description of a particular puzzle.
He can be frustratingly literal in his designs, but his fans love his cartoon camp.
In that sense, both Apple Arcade and Google Play Pass could be literal game changers.
It's a literal change of face that Bertram referenced in an internal email to employees.
Amazon Go is a grab-and-go grocery store, in the most literal sense possible.
A very literal showering of love, appears to have spoken to many people this year.
When they do speak, their language is literal, impersonal and has little variation in tone.
The aches and pains of migration become especially literal in the bodies of aging refugees.
Because really, there's no such thing as Black Friday anymore, not in a literal sense.
He has repeatedly talked about the wall as though it's a literal, physical construction project.
I'm urging her to bring her literal translations into a more vivid and robust English.
The stigma of wealth showed up in my interviews first in literal silences about money.
Either way, it proved to be a literal statement, and a prescient one at that.
Aside from a too-literal-minded final image, this "Slight Ache" is truly pitch-perfect.
We travel full circle with Booth on her journey: from crappy art to literal crap.
As a director, when he's not being grimly literal, he's all flourishes and shock effects.
This is nothing like the opera films of Franco Zeffirelli, which are lavishly literal-minded.
Sanders was, in both a literal and political sense, far from the movement he ignited.
That's what sets "Coventry Carol" apart: It's been haunting otherwise festive atmospheres for literal centuries!
But it was decimated — in a nearly literal sense of the word — by Hurricane Maria.
You know, the literal symbols of the United States of America — thus, plagiarism, at best.
Literal versus serious is getting too close for comfort to important rights issue for tech.
The idea has become a resistance meme; Siskind has kept a literal list every week.
The only literal nod in the whole movie is in the hospital, there's a red balloon on the bed, which is a literal nod to The Red Balloon, which is a great movie about a kid with a relationship to a being who is nonverbal.
She is the granddaughter of a stained glass hobbyist, and it's visible in her goddess's skirt in "Salty + Fresh," in nearly all of her paintings, and, in a quite literal sense, her tendency to craft together literal fragments, like they were shards of glass themselves.
Because that's also way too literal an interpretation of the Door for such a cerebral show.
Oh, so literal, I don't know, we're drinking out of these Shots Studios mugs right now.
Photo: AP Facebook just got one step closer to becoming the literal embodiment of its name.
Usually that fight is a literal battle, the better to unfurl Gibson's signature torrent of gore.
It's just confusing because, did Coster-Waldau not just wear a literal golden hand while filming?
And then you have emojis that are more of a literal illustration, like a birthday cake.
"I didn't know that it was a literal as opposed to a symbolic relationship," she says.
In particular, the social barriers, such as not being in the proverbial (and, sometimes, literal) club.
Captain America, a World War II recruit, became the literal manifestation of national courage and hope.
Larry Flynt was born in 1942 in a literal log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky.
But after she took her own life, Alexa began to wonder whether the stories were literal.
If you remember biology class, the mitochondria's literal job is to consume oxygen and produce ATP.
Her acceptance speech had Krasinski in literal tears as she gushed over her husband and collaborator.
They explore, rather tenderly, the concept of home and how complicated it becomes across literal oceans.
No, never ones for subtlety, the Kardashians went for a more literal take on the trend.
The logic of competitive crafting is still present, but in a metaphorical, rather than literal sense.
However, Frank may be onto something— an actual, literal cosmic conspiracy may have saved Sasha's life.
The phrase "toss the keg" took on a very literal meaning Tuesday morning in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
It's not literal or strict but more of a fluid, amorphous presentation of that stuff thematically.
Noticeably absent from this press conference, however, was any handholding — either the literal or figurative kind.
The other candidate to win Super Tuesday in the most literal of senses was Donald Trump.
Among those expressing suspicion is someone whose literal job it is to do so: Nev Schulman.
You know, the editors, reporters, designers, stylists and influencers for whom fashion is a literal job.
Her signature shadow-y eyelids, fuchsia lipstick, and stain of glitter are a literal hot mess.
"We coordinated the look with complementary colors with the bag instead of being literal," she says.
There are more literal portraits, too, drawn in crayon layered on thick and looking like masks.
In the past, many of Google Cloud Platform's April Fools' jokes have been literal cloud-themed.
As she'd learn in the ensuing months, finding your literal prince comes with some strings attached.
Perhaps, we're moving towards a literal witch hunt this season that could continue into season 8?
Somehow, this skittishness about ladies also applies to literal animals when it comes to The Terror.
But A Quiet Place is marked by a steadfast conservatism, more primal than literal or political.
At some point, the work they've asked of their devoted cult of fans became more literal.
Even Arianna Huffington is selling a damn phone bed, or a literal bed for your phone.
As for PLL, there is one series that shared a literal home with the Freeform show.
That perception of manipulating yourself is, on a literal level, what you do in your work.
Obviously, a ton of people went literal with the meme and made lots of bread jokes.
Like this is the most literal and commercial album art of all these stoner metal albums.
You don't have to play it, but whining online makes you sound like a literal infant.
Of all the shocking things Kim Zolciak-Biermann has done, this one is the most literal.
Chinese media initially nicknamed Xiaomi the "Apple of the East" (its literal translation is "little rice").
With robot cars, the crash can be all too literal, and the payment is in lives.
But it is literal as well, and Lannes wields it like no one else in comics.
Why it shocks: This episode's titular "climb" is a genuine thrill ride, with (literal) high stakes.
Notebook In a literal sense, the red carpet has been part of the Oscars since 1961.
The subtext of each added a literal element of drama to her work of the '80s.
Or, worse, a literal ball pit for adults in Shoreditch on the east end of London?
I was like, "We're being very literal about this," and we just scrapped that whole thing.
Not in an abstract, "we are the world" kind of way, but in a literal one.
Do we really need to be further weighed down by a literal stone in our vaginas?
" Though Mattioli says she prefers the sarcastic uses to the literal, "even that is getting tired.
I say "the camera," but it's late 268, so in literal terms that means multiple cameras.
If there's any hope of a literal Uber for escorting, this feature would be a must.
They provide an extremely literal moment of self-reflection that often during a film's emotional peak.
UBS, the Social Good Summit's premier sponsor, takes their investment in building a better world literal.
But even more than shock, I feel a sense of greatness in its most literal form.
"Now the literal smell of the inside of pill bottles makes me want to throw up."
Instead of glittering gems on top, it's dotted with steel circles, polished to (literal) gleaming perfection.
First it was food, then it was checked bags, and now it's your literal seat assignment.
Mine was close to literal: I was the restaurant critic here at The New York Times.
Obama responds to Alex Jones saying he and Hillary are literal demons who smell like sulfur.
Scott, a literal human mosquito, travels to Cleveland to keep Khloé company while Tristan is away.
According to the university, they've collected about 30 years worth of literal sounds of New York.
The ongoing war Marçal alludes to a few times is literal, and she never suggests otherwise.
To put a beard on Captain America is to mask the literal face of our country.
Dev doesn't give Kenny a literal hug, but does offer one of his greatest pep talks.
I'm not ever concerned or engaged with their literal content, but with their emotional-spiritual message.
The wallet's menu background consists of Tyson's face tattoo, taking cryptocurrency branding to a literal level.
We were interested in following in that tradition but in a more blunt and literal manner.
Unfortunately, it's Phil (Ty Burrell) who takes a literal fall for his wife's year-old prank.
Her strongly modeled frontal form reinforces, paradoxically, our awareness of the literal flatness of the canvas.
Perhaps in the midst of all its literal evil, some glimmers of goodness will ultimately emerge.
Of course, an algorithm isn't going to reach into a literal bag and pull out tiles.
Photo by Amy Wood Cameron Reed wears many hats—both in the figurative and literal sense.
And, just like that, the literal Queen of England just out-baller-ed all of us.
Leave it to Instagrammers to make a literal nuclear disaster a popular spot for photo shoots.
The capitalization isn't part of a larger metaphor: there's a literal big-ass mountain to climb.
On his latest video, that tease of new music lingers before exploding into a literal celebration.
It's a Lynchian picture of the tormented mind, depression's figurative end of the world made literal.
That is common sense – although that might not matter under a literal interpretation of the law.
Petersen embraced both the literal and figurative schleps necessary to build something new in freight forwarding.
Despite the specificity of their visual and textual signifiers the resultant imagery lacks any literal identity.
If your doggo is a fetching machine, get him or her a literal fetching machine — i.e.
A few literal fireworks were set off this week; the metaphorical ones are sure to follow.
But it is also a literal island that barely rises over the waters of Jamaica Bay.
What sticks with voters, often in a most literal sense, are the effects of the policy.
Yet if we pay attention to the literal meaning of his words, they are often startling.
That you can make art out of literal shit and get called a genius for it?
But, in the case of a panic attack, there's not necessarily a literal or figurative bear.
Rebirth was quite literal in its aim: It imagined a new course forward for Lil Wayne.
Instead everyone basically ignores Tinsley's literal cry for help and tells her to get over it.
So, I am being literal when I say that bonds build Columbia, and bonds build America.
Wheeler is not just the figurative embodiment of the swamp, but the literal embodiment of it.
I wanted it to be very literal: This song is about being unheard and feeling invisible.
At the literal end of the day, most parents simply want to connect with their teenagers.
It was literal miles ahead of my average, but still under what I needed to get.
Asteroids can be literal treasure troves, since they contain valuable elements like gold, platinum, and iron.
The literal connection between the two stories is revealed, almost in passing, in a brief epilogue.
Plots themselves are a kind of justice system, whether of the literal or the poetic variety.
In a more literal sense, once Patrick's name starts being spoken, Baker's compulsions start to change.
Yet the movie, which Mr. Eggers has described as a "Puritan's nightmare," is totally literal-minded.
Snow sports are also in danger due to the "literal loss of playing field," Nike said.
Maybe it's that Trump is Putin's "asset," as some have suggested, sometimes in very literal terms.
In one shot, we see birds falling out of the sky — followed by a literal plane.
They are the literal tip of the spear in the global war on the militant group.
A literal child manages to convince the 23-year-old YouTuber that the world is flat.
But now everyone does like Gritty, and his literal cartoonishness feels less edgy and more cuddly.
In the third room, a reflective wall turns a space into a literal house of mirrors.
THUMP: How has your musical and expression changed now that you've largely removed your literal voice?
At least one such scenario has raised legal questions about sending literal crap in the mail.
Literal crabs, like from the ocean, waltzing in there and fucking up an AC/DC record.
But everything in any medium that is forcibly literal and physical eventually becomes metaphorical or indirect.
T in the Park has managed to cement its reputation as a literal circle of hell.
So the literal idea of Satan being birthed by a human woman is still absolutely disturbing.
Sometimes this is a temporary decision, a realignment of sorts, like a more literal Dry January.
I see CUNY as being the figurative and literal epicenter of a lot of these activities.
Walking along the beaches of San Antonio, it's hard to miss the signs; the literal signs.
A royal wedding Prince Harry and literal American dream Meghan Markle will get hitched in May.
Rory is handed the literal keys to a newspaper, and she doesn't much care at all.
Is it the literal space on the wall or is there another space, one beyond it?
It's a classic rap boast — his ego is so monumental that it becomes a literal monument.
The church is a sanctuary in the literal sense of the word, set apart, safe, protecting.
A synagogue burning in Germany is perhaps among the most literal illustrations of anti-Semitism imaginable.
BRANDON: No, irony is when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.
In one very literal sense, there are only two winners of the Iowa caucuses most years.
To be sure they are evocative of human anatomy, but they rigorously resist any literal reading.

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