"Yes, but the house doesn't belong to me." She was a long, lean, pale person, habited apparently in a dull-colored dressing gown, and she spoke with a kind of mild
literalness. She did not ask me to sit down, any more than years before(if she were the niece) she had asked Mrs.
Bread, with timid
literalness. "Oh, sir, I haven't my cap.
Rachel read what she chose, reading with the curious
literalness of one to whom written sentences are unfamiliar, and handling words as though they were made of wood, separately of great importance, and possessed of shapes like tables or chairs.
Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific
literalness, wiped out.
It is immature, not because it questions the very notion of a wise God (for the record, that's a good question), but because it understands the story in literal terms, and then proceeds to ridicule the
literalness of it.
The
literalness of Glenn Kaino's recent work is surprising.
But those same earnest songs composed by musicians Jackson Odell and Brett Boyett bludgeon us with the storys emotions and themes with such ker-thudding
literalness, its as if Wolf didnt trust her actors to convey them.
"The ideas of interpretation and
literalness are, themselves, enormously deep pools of confusion" (p.
For myself, I would certainly agree with David Luke that in translating Faust, "readable prosodic correspondence must be allowed priority over referential
literalness."
"The artist uses the body as a kind of tropological platform from which to illuminate these issues in their own complexity and in the imaginal complexity of art, without falling into the prevailing
literalness of socially critical art in her country.
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