Literal
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143 examples of Literal in a sentence
A
literal
rainbow of emotion and talent, Bette shows us her best from her solid repertoire, as well as new songs from the "Bette of Roses" album.
This is the
literal
foundation upon which the movie "Gunga Din" is based.
Preminger's adaptation of Shaw's intellectual exploration of the effects and actions surrounding Joan of Arc(her actual name in her own language is Jeanne d'Arc but this film is in English) is totally faithful to the spirit of the original play, not only on the
literal
emotional level but formally too.
Some may not like this movie because it's just not everyone's cup of tea...but, just like South Park, once you look past the absurdity...it has a really genuine message that is conveyed through
literal
comic genius.
Sheets earns bonus points for keeping the tone grim and nasty to the
literal
bitter end (for example, almost all of the main characters wind up becoming zombie chow).
Perhaps the most interesting and unique aspect of the show was the ability to merge pop culture (e.g., bands of the era, Jerry Springer), archetypal human condition/morality (e.g., the importance of friendship, the spirit of Christmas), and the
literal
representation of such related metaphors in the Magical Realm.
The movie works on many different levels: cerebral, emotional, visual, and
literal.
The use of special effects was restrained making a more poetic rather than
literal
telling of the story.
It seems intent on portraying the pain they suffer, yet focuses on the
literal
preparation.
The film, despite it's
literal
3 seconds of redeemable creepiness is a worthless, unredeemable pile of crap!!
And their actions can be taken for this or that,
literal
or representative or whatnot.
It wasn't intended to be literal, but the poor guys kept getting killed off and the women lived to play in later episodes, so I guess the casting people decided to go with making the older women look as young as possible rather than the other way around.
"My heart stopped beating" is the
literal
translation of the French title ("The Beat My Heart Skipped" sounds more like exhilaration than spiritual stasis to me!) and surely relates to this period,after Tom's mother's death,where Tom's heart is moribund.
Defined as an assortment of animals, the expression here takes on both
literal
and figurative meanings that sort of intertwine throughout the screenplay.
There is no sex (literal, or implied), and very little language (I think I counted 2 words).
Well, to that sir I reply you're only thinking in the
literal
sense.
If we are to take the last third of the story in a
literal
manner, the conclusion is both creepy and confusing.
The above expression is a
literal
quote from the standard-work of film theory "Theorie Des Films" by Siegfried Kracauer (Frankfurt Am Main 1973, p. 12).
/Screenplay writer James Twyman (author "Portrait of a Master") and the endearing and talented Co writer/Star Neale Donald Walsh (Best-selling author "Conversations with God") is a winning combination and a
literal
dream team at it's finest.
And true, it wasn't a
literal
working of the movie, it didn't take place in a mansion and it didn't involve exploring lots of rooms and solving puzzles.
A
literal
translation of Resident Evil would probably be really dull.
To me they should be regarded as the "super-race" for the sheer fact that they, along with the Buffalo, after being not only marginalized, tokenized, robbed, and yes, decimated almost to
literal
extinction (remember, even the kids and babies were shot by the U.S. army), they, into the new millennium are still here and their numbers have increased (as of the year 2000 there are about 2 and 1/2 million Native Americans alive today).
one forever feels that around the next corner will be the demon awaiting to devour the souls of the main characters, but lemarchand's box is not quite so
literal
as it is in a film like hellraiser. the demons that give pleasure and devour your being are much more real and familiar in this world.
A little further ahead lies a
literal
ghost town, Sunset Valley, containing flesh-eating undead victims claimed by devil-worshiping ghoul, Bloody Bill(Jeremy Bouvet; whose face is rotted away, his lower lip gone, exposing teeth)who avenged the wrongful lynching of his beloved innocent sister Mary.
A lot of the time the images were not
literal
depictions of what was being said, but images of related things or things that could be metaphorical.
In Chinese, 'electric shadows' is the
literal
translation for the word 'cinema'.
I am perhaps viewing this film from too
literal
a viewpoint yet I came away thinking that I have been snookered.
Jennifer (Meet Joe Black's Claire Forlani) is quick, witty, ironic, literary and independent, and Ryan (I Know What You Did Last Summer's Freddie Prinze Jr.) is deliberate, literal, serious and studying structural engineering.
An endless barrage of utterly grotesque and disjointed imagery, much of which seems to be intended as
literal
hellscapes, is liberally flavored with nude women, partially obscured by psychedelic lighting and editing effects, and staged on sets which must be seen to be believed (parts of actors' bodies are often built into the backdrop).
'Sukiyaki Western Django' has a pretty
literal
name, even if it looks goofy to those unfamiliar with the genre being referenced.
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