| 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. |
| Her early pieces have a literalness that she later discarded in favour of a more open-ended sense of evocation. |
| Her comments in interviews and at readings, likewise, reveal the startling literalness of her apparently abstract, difficult poems. |
| The drawings have a Photo-Realist literalness, and a dense, satiny gloss accenting edges and shadows in a masterful counterpoint of tonal values. |
| 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. |
