Herbert takes the incarnation with absolute literalness, often simply identifying the incarnate Christ with God. |
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The drawings have a Photo-Realist literalness, and a dense, satiny gloss accenting edges and shadows in a masterful counterpoint of tonal values. |
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Her comments in interviews and at readings, likewise, reveal the startling literalness of her apparently abstract, difficult poems. |
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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. |
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It's literalness is so easily consumed that there is no choice but for the work to be ephemeral and meaningless. |
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Her early pieces have a literalness that she later discarded in favour of a more open-ended sense of evocation. |
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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. |
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But other victims of regulation make things worse by interpreting woolly regulations with timid literalness. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Here the mechanism of our ideals is revealed to be based on the dominance of naive literalness, metaphors, and primitive imitation of linguistic forms. |
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