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The essay that complements the series offers more literal retellings.
The main difference is, that last part is more literal.
Maybe memes just makes this process a little more literal.
But other "Tales" episodes are more literal and less interesting.
Instead, more literal sartorial messaging seems to be in style.
Isabel Marant was more literal, with looks that resembled space suits.
Some of those ticking clocks may be more literal than others.
The computer created much more literal keywords: person, street, dark, gray.
There may also be some more literal reasons for the ghosts.
Messam might actually have been, but in a more literal way.
We also think poetry is inaccessible, but in a more literal sense.
Your sexting game is about to get a whole lot more literal.
Some things may make more literal sense before the series is over.
In other words, they take a nonliteral colloquialism and turn it more literal.
Suddenly, "cleaning up the streets" took on a more literal — and urgent — dimension.
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From here, Radtke explores abandonment in its more literal, observable manifestation: cities of ruin.
Onstage, though, everything by necessity has to get just a little bit more literal.
Oh, and he even took the unicorn latte concept to a more literal level.
But no musician's been more literal about the work he's doing than Frank Ocean.
Mark Simon's job title on LinkedIn couldn't be more literal: Hockey Guy in China.
The farther we walk, the more literal the warnings that we shouldn't be there.
To Morty and Rick's surprise, though, the term "muscle memory" proves more literal than expected.
A more literal translation would be "table tip," or tip (of meat) for the table.
When the nuclear era dawned, Christians were "on both sides" in a more literal sense.
No, never ones for subtlety, the Kardashians went for a more literal take on the trend.
There are more literal portraits, too, drawn in crayon layered on thick and looking like masks.
At some point, the work they've asked of their devoted cult of fans became more literal.
In a more literal sense, once Patrick's name starts being spoken, Baker's compulsions start to change.
Sometimes this is a temporary decision, a realignment of sorts, like a more literal Dry January.
Rather, I learned to understand where they were coming from in a much more literal sense.
Though his references are more literal than his own masterful interpretation, there's nothing cliché about Simons' vision.
Steph Curry and the Warriors become a more literal description by the game in the NBA Finals.
But this spring, Duke Riley's project "Fly By Night" is fleeting in a rather more literal sense.
That ending is also a more literal expression of what's going on beneath Cam the whole time.
Some prefer a more literal suit of parade armor—loud, rococo, King Henry II of France protection.
The older ones were also more literal and exacting about how closely the play followed the books.
As for Ms. Lopez — who has been taking photographs since she was 13 — the process was more literal.
In a more literal sense, the film, Sonámbulo/The Sleepwalker is a creative exploration of a sleepwalker's dreams.
Their debut 1991 album Revolution For Change took their ethos to an even more literal and radical level.
In an interview, author Ishmael Reed was asked why his books were not more literal in their activism.
"Kaleidoscope Dream" was a more grounded affair, as Miguel grew more literal about the earthiness of his desires.
There is a genre of videos of places that in a more literal sense do not exist anymore.
"Courtesanship doesn't dovetail with the modern, more literal and conservative understanding of an Islamic republic like Pakistan," Mrs.
"What more literal way of talking about, dealing with, and addressing means of representation than photography?" he said.
This song is mostly about that latter kind of purgatory, but also about purgatory in a more literal sense.
Tawada just makes this conceit more literal, by casting her bears as actual artists in one way or another.
It's good to know, early on, that you interpret rules broadly, while your girlfriend takes a more literal reading.
Metaphorically speaking, it's about opportunism and greed — but some historians believe it originally had a much more literal meaning.
In 2006, the Vatican successfully pressured American bishops to accept a more literal translation of well-known English prayers.
Gillum has an even more literal link — he's a candidate whom liberals love to drop into the 249 speculation game.
And if you're in the market for some moving images of a more literal sort, you're in luck there, too.
In America, we've declared war on our old dietary companion (in other parts of the world, it's much more literal).
In the end, the bovine was butchered, and the company asked artist Kristen Visbal to create something more literal instead.
A more literal cocoon is presented by Ben Coonley's "Trading Futures" (2016), perhaps the most technically adventurous work in Dreamlands.
"Wedding Dress" lends itself to a much more literal interpretation, but the dress within Trace of Memory has a similar affect.
On another, more literal level, it describes Petty's own hard-won battles against music studios for artistic control over his work.
Senator Marco Rubio's taking a shot at Snoop Dogg over his music video taking a more literal shot at President Trump.
Her take was trickier, and more literal: lemon acidulating cream to form curds, which were separated from the whey with cheesecloth.
Back in the 221th century, when Salem's saga took place, a witch hunt was far more literal than a cyber rant.
Rama returned to figurative works in her later years, when she made even more literal the overlapping of bodies and contraptions.
But for the participants in this particular rendering of Shakespeare's great valedictory romance, the concept takes on a more literal meaning.
Trump's picks have leaned toward a more literal reading of the Constitution, in the tradition of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
For them, the Photo Ark's name is more literal, as it's the last thing carrying on proof that they ever existed.
Google Translate tends to be more literal with its translations, at least with the three languages we tested the Pixel Buds with.
Meanwhile there are more literal signs of a shift: Canopy has taken over a former Hershey chocolate plant in Smith Falls, Ontario.
But Episcopalians have long battled more conservative Anglicans, particularly those from Africa, who hold more literal views on the Bible's sexual ethics.
You might think that's true of any live show, but "Freestyle" makes the bargain more literal and thus the show more live.
A lot of people respond to Uglies now as a metaphor for Instagram rather than a more literal cautionary tale about plastic surgery.
And yet, some of its more literal uses, as when Mr. Mahé loops the two women's singing into an echoing cry, are affecting.
Now, the app is introducing users to another major innovation that will put Snapchat on the map in a far more literal sense.
But what's changed is that the stories we tell each other now begin and end visually, making the narrative more literal than ever.
When we imagine rose-themed makeup, we typically picture it as a monochromatic pink look, but this one is a lot more literal.
But it's also worthwhile, and honestly pretty fun, to ask a more literal question of Black Panther's story: What if Wakanda were real?
Zork takes place in a much more literal dungeon; a vast, abandoned, underground space, once again populated by monsters but devoid of people.
"A Woman's Life" — a more literal translation of the French title would just be "A Life" — is the new film by Stéphane Brizé.
Eating contests don't get much more literal than the Feast of Fire and Ice in Hangzhou City, the capital of east China's Zhejiang Province.
Designer Sky Cubacub found comfort in their clothing in a more literal sense—starting at age 13, they began making their own chain mail.
Others argue that "la petite mort" refers to something more literal: the idea that an orgasm brings us just a bit closer to death.
Then, of course, there are the more literal theories—that it's the "underbelly" of the city, that it's full of the "loins" of prostitutes.
Taking the classic 2D platformer 3D in a more literal fashion, jumping around obstacles along zany corridors, the series quickly became PlayStation's killer app.
Clinton is known for taking a draft of a speech and changing it some indelible way to make it more literal and less readable.
But recently, I began to wonder whether there isn't a more literal sense in which Bert was the author of that line as well.
Within the hashtag, you'll find designs that are more literal, like cacti, as well as subtler nods to the Southwest region and its design influences.
In a more literal, spelled-out screenplay, their specific reasons for anguish might play out in obviously appropriate ways, and lead to their specific ends.
Zotac, meanwhile, takes a more literal approach — it's slightly modified one of its smaller Zbox gaming PCs and just put it in an actual backpack.
His daily assault on the notion of shared truths is endlessly frustrating for journalists, but it is in a more literal sense frustrating Trump himself.
Her red-and-white stripped long jacket with its starred trim channeled the American flag — while she carried a far more literal flag-printed purse.
As a country, we remain committed to denial and delay, even as the world, in an ever more literal sense, goes up in flames. ♦
Now, the artist is using Instagram to make a more literal splash: she has turned one of her posts into a smartphone-shaped inflatable float.
In the Philippines, some of those attacks have been more literal than rhetorical as Mr. Duterte used government institutions and the law to pressure journalists.
By even playing, every entrant had already lost this perverse prisoner's dilemma of economic subsidies—but in this case, "no single winner" is far more literal.
And among Bong's filmography, The Host may be the best companion piece to Parasite, something their titles may signal (the former's more literal Korean title notwithstanding).
Nine years ago, Meghan Remy of U.S. Girls did something that might have prompted the frontperson of another, more literal-minded band to consider changing its name.
The painting seems to wish to resist the literalism of representational art by become ever-more literal paint-as-paint, while conceptually gesturing towards the natural landscape.
"When he says shitposting he means in both the regular sense (ironic trolling online) and the more literal sense (him shitting himself for others amusement)," he said.
There's a lot to take in, but be sure to zoom in on the more literal details to catch things like lunchbox-style handbags and miniature lifesaver necklaces.
The saying "behind every great man, there's a great woman" may be slightly outdated, but Showtime's newly ordered series First Ladies aims to explore its more literal interpretation.
St. Vincent is a Becky Something, and so is Cardi B. On a more literal level, Becky's resemblance to Courtney Love is unmistakable, even if it's also deniable.
" But she also spoke of a more literal inspiration, the Pinto Mountain fault that runs through her hometown, Twentynine Palms, where "you can see this apocalyptic fever brewing.
More literal uses of the stone's blue tones have been made by the Canadian jeweler Holly Dyment, who created the iris in her evil eye rings with tanzanite.
To try to capture a city's scope through the more literal means of maps and facts winds up diminishing its monumentality by hinting at what can't be done.
That trade-off should be familiar, given that the depravity of the game show is only negligibly more literal than the ones that are actually part of American culture.
Westworld is a more literal spin on the traditional shoot-em-up, in which cyborg cowboys and brothel madams become sentient and decide to rebel against their own subjugation.
For Chuck, the pleasure-pain relationship is more literal than for anyone else on the show, but what's true in his bedroom is true in the world at large.
The play's subtitle — "The Burgher King" — is a play on the German word "Bürger" ("Citizens"), and is also a more literal reference to hamburgers and meat, Mr. Hentschker said.
Two forms of objectification — the kind we usually think of with the ogling of bodies, and the more literal, "one human owns another" kind — are contrasted with one another.
Mosques built from the late 1990s and into the 2000s started to be more architecturally autonomous, attempting to be more literal replicas of traditional Islamic architecture from Muslim countries.
In this movie, black people are still being "bought" and "used," except this way is a bit more literal as it involves putting your mind in the body of another.
TV and film are in the thick of an unprecedented sociopolitical reckoning, the first ever of such scale and ferocity, a microcosm of our ever-more-literal national culture war.
López makes this central idea of fairy tales even more literal as Estrella starts to use the chalk to make wishes, and seemingly supernatural elements start to invade her world.
Annihilation tips its hat to the fact that audiences today are less inclined to have patience for brain-melting metaphors and psychedelia, but it doesn't cater to those more literal tendencies.
This classic film about a cutthroat businessman in 1980s New York — who is also cutthroat in other, much more literal ways — is almost always available on one streaming service or another.
Obviously, The Push is about compliance on a more literal scale, but the idea that people will obey those with authority, money, and power extends well past this bizarre immersive experiment.
The way Wolfe performs it, and Walter frames and shoots it, makes Barbara's journey work both as metaphor and as a more literal experience in navigating the particular monsters of bereavement.
If you prefer the talk to be more literal, I devoted an episode of my podcast to the subject; you can listen to it here or subscribe on Acast or iTunes.
In other cases, the hand of creation was more literal, like on the exquisite hand-painted denim pieces by the artist Patrick Church, in surrealist comic-book style ($350 to $400).
"Speaking in tongues is an essential part of the Pentecostal church," he said, as is a strong belief in miracles and more literal interpretations of the Bible as compared with Anglican denominations.
His depiction of Mount Kumgang, with its striking use of negative space and accomplished evocation of cloud and mist, contrasts starkly with Choe Chang Ho's more literal rendering of the same peaks.
Much more than the previous architectural pieces, which deal with domesticity and public spaces in a more literal way, this body of work maybe is even more violent and is very corporeal.
Of course it was a more literal kind of dialogue, one that broke the commonly agreed-upon wall between actors and audience, that antagonized Mr. Trump into a series of admonitory tweets.
But whereas the ready-to-wear range offered a more literal study of this idea in the form of workwear, the spring '17 couture explored it of through a much more wondrous lens.
The question is whether Republicans in Congress will eventually despair of the presidency and rescind their endorsements, or whether the GOP will become, in a much more literal sense, the Party of Trump.
Starting out with a simple minimalist "diagram" approach that developed into a more literal circuit board look, it was then stripped back down to the finished final version you see on the page.
If you take this in the more literal sense, it could mean Sansa is still feeling not just the psychological trauma inflicted on her from the rape, but her body's physiological reaction: conception.
If you scan it with your phone, you can "discover your new bf," which in more literal terms means that you'll be directed to a hyperlink that opens a full-screen photo of Drake.
On a more literal biographical level, Fania suffers from a psychological malaise exacerbated by the condescension of her in-laws (Arieh's mother remarks that Fania's borscht is "almost flavorful") and her own mother's cruelty.
Success is impossible without the courage to act boldly and it can require taking creative risks, upsetting some people, gambling on your own self-esteem, or in a more literal sense, your self-worth.
Ostensibly too sophisticated for superhero stories, our critics have accepted the Joker's power to corrupt the masses in real life, on a more literal level than the most addled comic-book fan ever would.
While the stars performed emotional, showstopping routines to celebrate the most memorable year of their lives, host Erin Andrews was a bit more literal, picking a heavy-metal mini that practically was its own spotlight.
But for other groups, like the LGBTQIA community, it may be more literal — in the face of daily discrimination, casting a sacred circle at the end of a shitty day can be a soothing thing.
Compared to Woods, who uses the names of her heroes mainly as starting points, Rapsody's invocations are more literal: "Nina" overtly samples Nina Simone's "Strange Fruit," while "Aaliyah" abounds with references to various Aaliyah songs.
While both films share the theme of regret over a lost soul the protagonist couldn't save (as well as a more literal connection), the former has mystical concerns, and the latter is a home-invasion thriller.
One of the more literal manifestations of ocean-liner style was the Coca-Cola distillery in Los Angeles, designed by Robert V. Derrah and finished in 1939, which looks like a ship that has run aground.
But the staging feels needlessly unfocused — the libretto is more literal-minded than you would have known by seeing this presentation — and doesn't give enough assistance to a work that, while intriguing and accomplished, needs it.
The worst I could find in the actual court doc was a post saying "this dev should go from digital homicide to physical suicide," a more literal take on a low-hanging wordplay I myself made yesterday.
Another angle: "Our critics have accepted the Joker's power to corrupt the masses in real life, on a more literal level than the most addled comic-book fan ever would," an essay in The Times Magazine argues.
Even though the participants were selected because they had no formal art training, the findings suggest that their brains were processing and evaluating the artwork in a way that was not replicated for the more literal photographs.
With the more still life object paintings I've done, people tend to get hung up on a more literal interpretation of the image in front of them rather than delve into the larger ideas of power and identity.
"Patients with autism ... may be more literal, they may not make as much eye contact, but they do have a lot to say, and if you can be a little more patient, it'll be really helpful," Ross said.
And don't let the name confuse you: Oak Taverns says the pronunciation of Gin&'er is up to the drinker — whether it's Ginger, in a nod to Harry's infamous red hair, or the more literal Gin and 'er.
This six-times-a-year showground fair in rural Somerset could hardly have been a more literal embodiment of the "grass roots" of Britain's antiques trade, far removed from the glitter of London's international auction houses and dealers.
It was an eye-for-an-eye with a twist: Ellaria will now be made to spend the rest of her days rotting in a cell, alongside her daughter, who presumably will do so in more literal fashion.
But a more literal measurement of the establishment's reputation could be the number of pitas made each day by its co-founders Khalil Ammar and Zaki Hashem and their kitchens: approximately 22006,18963, at each of Al Ameer's two locations.
Whether your cape-spiration is more chic and sophisticated like Gossip Girl or you decide to go a little more literal and dark (hello, Harry Potter) there are always some great style options in the shops once winter rolls around.
Most gala attendees went with a general retrofuture feel in shiny looks resembling liquid metal, bodices that outlined the bust like robotic chest armor, even more literal robot references, latex-like fabric and more than one count of silvery hair.
Add in a few looks that were more literal than others — Nepali quilts, survival blanket dresses (indeed, in their blinding splendor), knitted balaclava hats — and Simons rounded out a vision that may have felt dark, but was, nevertheless, assuredly optimistic.
In more literal terms, political scientists estimate that voter mobilization efforts can raise turnout by as much as 8 or 9 percent among the people a campaign contacts — which can raise the total voter turnout rate by about a percentage point.
The series is a metaphor for grief and loss, whether it's more literal—his breakup—or something more nuanced—the potential loss of culture as a Peruvian-born immigrant who's lived in the United Stages for more than 15 years.
The studio figured the big-budget movie about the biblical figure would attract religious viewers en masse, but "Noah" landed poorly with more literal interpreters of Scripture, who objected to the film's depiction of fallen angels as "Transformers"-style rock monsters.
People dramatically proclaim all the time that they don't think they could survive without their smartphones, but a new series from the forthcoming streaming service Quibi from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman approaches smartphone survival in a much more literal way.
Pens from MUJI (Photo: Michael/Flickr) Pens from MUJI (Photo: Michael/Flickr) One of the earliest companies to adopt this mindset was Japanese home goods store MUJI, whose name literally means "No Brand" (it doesn't get more literal than that).
The "force" of Nicks's title can be the obvious colloquial reference—the police—but it can also be a much more literal, yet somewhat more opaque, allusion: how these public servants should wield the power and authority we give them.
To your question: "The X-Files" was a show about a certain mode of fear and style of conspiracy, and in the 14 years since it ended our culture has been overtaken by a new, more grim, more literal sense of fear.
A creepy doll and a creepy house are the main ingredients of "The Boy," a small-cast horror movie that spends a lot of time building itself into a psychological thriller, only to veer in a more literal direction at the end.
Miranda July went a more literal route, with a mural of white bubble letters on a black backdrop on the side of Tictail's Orchard Street store simply reading, "This woman is not who she seems to be," with an arrow pointing downwards.
Elsewhere, things get more literal — silhouettes of pebbles lined up like the vertebrae of a knobby spine; flashes of light bouncing off shelf-like planes; and a stylized ouroboros, whose alchemical redolence dates back to ancient Egypt, signaling the artworks' subterranean historicism.
On both albums, the rapping is more literal and direct than it has been in recent years — the enunciation is stronger (and therefore less intriguing) and often he's emphasizing the final syllable in each line as a way of planting a flag.
But, since he's not here to drop any more literal and figurative lightbulbs on us, we're currently in need of a more modern, genius holiday role model...Like the female-led company selling an endless collection of creative and cutting-edge inventions, The Grommet.
This surreal scene, which has some of the courtiers disrobing to become live images of the naked Saint Sebastian paintings projected on the walls, suggests something of what "Nureyev" could be if Mr. Serebrennikov and Mr. Possokhov stripped away the work's more literal sections.
Sometimes the rhetoric of universality takes on a more literal and pragmatic meaning, as when self-proclaimed "universal museums" claim the right to own — and retain — objects from every corner of the globe, regardless of the dubious circumstances by which they may have acquired them.
I had some other more literal, very straightforward ideas about just writing a story about my mother's childhood in which I would play my grandmother or something like that, but then I realized that we wanted to do a genre movie, or even a genre-bending movie.
In the case of Claire Cottrill, who performs under the moniker Clairo, the descriptor couldn't have been more literal: Cottrill went viral in 21960 with "Pretty Girl," a simple, deceptively peppy song of longing accompanied by a video of her, perched on her bed, lip syncing for her webcam.
Our own Chaim Gartenberg believes there are essentially two mazes, one for bots on the path to consciousness, and a more literal one created by Ford for the Man In Black, a distraction that kept the leading shareholder busy: the toy in the cemetery — Ford reburied it there.
The battlefields of the so-called "War on Christmas" described by Ben Carson and friends rarely amount to more than the sides of Starbucks ventis and courthouse mangers, but for years mods have let players of Doom fight battles for the integrity of December 22014 of a more literal sort.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox is hitting Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE yet again — but this time it's a lot more literal.
Detroit's resident weirdos—along a host of out-of-towners, who told me they'd trekked from Chicago, Baltimore, New York, and more—probably would have showed out in force even if the fest was charging admission, but the more literal meaning of the billboard made the whole thing feel refreshingly low-stakes.
Scientists Unveil the World&aposs First Cyborg PlantThe concept of "green energy" got a whole lot more literal this week, when scientists announced…Read more ReadOur first look at cyborg flowers came in late 2015 when researchers at Linköping University in Sweden revealed they had developed the world's first electronic plant—but it wasn't made from silicon and solder.
He is a star not in the sense that Trump himself used the term when sharing his personal sexual-assault best practices with Billy Bush, but in a more literal one: something to be admired from afar, a navigational aid for Americans determined to sail off the edge of the earth specifically to spite everyone asking them not to.
Thus, my frequent description of the show to the curious — "Game of Thrones in space" — became more literal than ever before, as the series balanced the political squabbles dominating our solar system with the much more mysterious, longer-range question of whether humanity is really prepared to take the leap to the stars to join whatever might be waiting for us.
These are helpful because the show loves a wounded man — both in the sense of men made vulnerable through prior dating or life experiences, but also the more literal injuries that these competitions result in, like a hurt wrist during a football game, a concussion from a boxing match, or, as with the chicken-suit wearer, randomly falling out of a top bunk in the middle of the night.
Certain lines are more literal than others, but the larger metaphor is self-evident: It's a cool place and they say it gets colder You're bundled up now wait 'til you get older But the meteor men beg to differ Judging by the hole in the satellite picture The ice we skate is getting pretty thin The water's getting warm so you might as well swim My world's on fire.
And the hilarious "Rich" spins if-I-had-a-dollar heartbreak over a do-nothing man into hip-hop-minded comedy: Boy, I'd be rich, head-to-toe PradaBenz in the driveway, yacht in the waterVegas at the Mandarin, high-roller gamblin'Me and Diddy drippin' diamonds like Marilyn She's sing-rapping here, but also blending hip-hop bravado and country modesty (think Chris Janson's "Buy Me a Boat"), tweaking more literal genre cut-and-pasters like Florida Georgia Line or Sam Hunt by smoothing down the seams.

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