overliteral

(ˌəʊvəˈlɪtərəl)

adj

literal to a fault

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Some commentators gloss over embarrassing difficulties and overliteral readings; others welcome the opportunity to rebut them from within the fold, though as Parker points out, this needs to be done well.

The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe

Pic boasts a radiantly natural perf by Ana Claudia Talancon ("The Crime of Father Amaro") but is leadenly scripted and blandly overliteral and therefore never capitalizes on the provocativeness of its premise.

Alone with Her

This whole scenario sounds quite bizarre, if not grotesque, to us today but it is important not to remain at an overliteral reading.

Christian salvation: biblical and theological perspectives

Saturn's overliteral interpretation depends on substituting the rules of logical implication for those of ordinary conversational implicature, the basic strategy employed by devils, genii, and other mischievous or malevolent beings in tales about hasty wishes.

Fabliau plotting against romance in Chaucer's 'The Knight's Tale.' (Geoffrey Chaucer)

Overliteral reading of a corrupt source has led to unnecessary text omission in Gaude virgo.

Johannes Ockeghem: Missa Prolationem

This, however, is a structure unperceived by Okonkwo and is indeed alien to his rigid, overliteral conceptions of the "masculine" ideals.

Okonkwo and his mother: 'Things Fall Apart' and issues of gender in the constitution of African postcolonial discourse

Anderson, in a letter of 22 December 1991, proposes that the 'thistles' in the Greek text are 'an overliteral adjustment to Genesis 3.

The fall of Satan and Adam's penance: three notes on the 'Books of Adam and Eve.'

All these pieces are shadowed with a fainter-than-faint comedy and a subtle skepticism: A fractionally overliteral attitude to both scientific rules and aesthetic formulas gives rise to absurdity and uncertainly.