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literalness

NOUN
  1. adhereing to the concrete construal of something

How To Use literalness In A Sentence

  • The drawings have a Photo-Realist literalness, and a dense, satiny gloss accenting edges and shadows in a masterful counterpoint of tonal values.
  • Rainer encountered problems in attempting to translate the ‘literalness’ attributed to painterly and sculptural minimalism to live performance.
  • Certainly the concrete literalness of the enactments and their aliveness in the mind recall this early hypothesis.
  • this re-created literalness
  • At first my heart sank: I thought we were going to be in for the kind of numbing literalness that often accompanies physicalised literary adaptations.
  • His general theory may be stated as an aim at something between the literalness of metaphrase and the looseness of paraphase. Among My Books First Series
  • Jesus of Nazareth is the myth reduced to literalness. Lance Mannion:
  • Herbert takes the incarnation with absolute literalness, often simply identifying the incarnate Christ with God.
  • Her comments in interviews and at readings, likewise, reveal the startling literalness of her apparently abstract, difficult poems.
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