| The theological pettifoggery of their literalistic religion has to be read to be believed. |
| He freed the doctrine of his master from its literalistic mysticism, and presented it in a more perfected and systematised form. |
| Perhaps our own more political and literalistic culture has made it harder to sustain that kind of response to the arts, and has brought with it a certain withdrawal of intensity of attention. |
| In contrast, fundamentalism is literalistic, overconfident and reactionary. |
