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How to use literalness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word literalness? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Herbert takes the incarnation with absolute literalness, often simply identifying the incarnate Christ with God.
The drawings have a Photo-Realist literalness, and a dense, satiny gloss accenting edges and shadows in a masterful counterpoint of tonal values.
Her comments in interviews and at readings, likewise, reveal the startling literalness of her apparently abstract, difficult poems.
But it should only be attempted if the critic first honors the poem's literalness, because the poem's cold power is in its literalness.
It's literalness is so easily consumed that there is no choice but for the work to be ephemeral and meaningless.
Her early pieces have a literalness that she later discarded in favour of a more open-ended sense of evocation.
As to literalness, the general rule here is to take passages which are meant literally literally and to take passages which are not meant literally unliterally.
But other victims of regulation make things worse by interpreting woolly regulations with timid literalness.
Yet the story continues relentlessly, deploying an inchoate mass of symbols that tend to baffle the reader-interpreter, compounding the strangeness through its idiosyncratic literalness.
It is simply disingenuous for them to complain about Grayling's excessive literalness while their entire faith quietly rests on a literal belief in Christ's resurrection.
And the novelty this year is that the show's six curators have chosen to take the Biennial's original brief to provide an American cross-section with refreshing literalness.
As a general rule, a strict criterion of literalness is adhered to, meaning that any item not specifically stated as being included in the travel price is not included therein.
As between French and English versions of a law, the literalness of the translation from one language to the other is less important than the result.
Here the mechanism of our ideals is revealed to be based on the dominance of naive literalness, metaphors, and primitive imitation of linguistic forms.
Examples from Classical Literature
To deny the literalness of these sacrifices does violence to the Word of God.
What are the teachings of the Church regarding the literalness of the resurrection?
Unhappily for the literalness of the truth, it is Lactantius who tells the story.
Symbolism and literalness, in Dante's time, and in his practice, are simultaneous.
She was a long, lean, pale person, habited apparently in a dull-colored dressing gown, and she spoke with a kind of mild literalness.
The Biblical descriptions of heaven she accepted in all their literalness.
He hastened to correct its literalness though not its import.
But it is perhaps better for avoiding the Charybdis of literalness.
With the Freudian literalness that fuels counterintuitive readings, Rickels takes SPECTRE'S acronym at its ghostly word.
But when the moment comes it seems oddly anticlimactic, and the documentary literalness of Prokic's text seems a slightly awkward fit for this company.
The interpretations that I have so far set forth depend on a certain literalness but the value of Quinn's exhibition lay more in its figurative potential.
Irony forfeits literalness to recognize dualities and multiplicities.
Michael Bishop, Michel's lifelong translator, has the exact degree of literalness with a British charm that softens the violent austerity of Michel's thought.
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