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literalize

VERB
  1. make literal
    literalize metaphors

How To Use literalize In A Sentence

  • Too often when an idea is literalized it loses its essential power. Testing the Weird
  • You are free to literalize it if you like, but unless you arise in consciousness, both you and Christ will remain dead. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
  • In science fiction, “science”—i.e., sentences displaying verbal emblems of scientific discourses—is used to literalize the meanings of other sentences for use in the construction of the fictional foreground. July « 2009 « Gerry Canavan
  • Funny enough, Dr. McGrath, some people don't care what George Lucas' intent was and have literalized his scriptures. More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels: Messiahs, Wisdom and Jesus
  • Rorty looked forward to a culture -- he called it a "liberal utopia" -- in which the "Nietzschean metaphors" of self-creation are finally "literalized," i.e., made real. Www.Perublogs.com Todos los Blogs del Perú
  • Maybe you want to literalize the term “cock block,” or maybe you want to l Links for 2008-04-12 « Skid Roche
  • Speed Racer (Wachowski Bros.) [as demented narratively as it is visually; great fun]; XXY (Lucia Puenzo) [gathered festival props but not much else; absorbing both in its opening, a kind of literalized Cronenberg feast of meat being sliced and anatomies and wounds on display galore, then develops into a surprisingly sensitive and universal examination of inchoate teen sexual longing; the fact that it's about a hermaphrodite ultimately seems kind of irrelevant]; The House Next Door
  • With No Maps, Neale more or less becomes cyberpunk's Errol Morris, a documentary filmmaker who likes his subjects to do the talking while he, armed with a low budget and high aspirations, attempts to visually literalize their speech.
  • Ach" stands as the lower limit in German of voice enlisted, made letteral, as discourse, sound made not just sensed but sensible — what Agamben calls in the etymological sense "literalized" ( "Philosophy and Linguistics" 65). Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • The opera's dichotomy of light and darkness was literalized by a massive industrial dome light that hovered over the production like an albatross. Berlin Boos an Inert and Ugly 'Tristan'
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