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What does literalize mean?

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Verb
  1. To make literal or prosaic
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As if to literalize the longing of the title, a breathtakingly extended axle-like element joins a towering wheel to a tall woven hive shape.
Fitting music to verse can be tricky territory: if you literalize a poem with musical gestures, you may be taking away its mysteries and killing it.
There were better prints, from a technical point of view, in the show, but the hazy indistinctness of this one seemed to literalize its distance from us in time.
Also on hand were a pair of sculptures, cut from sheets of particle board, that literalize Scheibitz's constructive process of form-building.
The problem is not fantasy but allegory, which exists to literalize and simplify.
The result is a series of ghostly, uncanny dialogues that manage to literalize the mysterious force — part guide, part confessor — with which Heti feels herself to be in communion while she is writing.

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