Morrison’s technique might be characterized as literalizing stock language. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I hadn't been aware of that incident, and I was immediately attracted by the idea of juxtaposing poetic insight and political insight; literalizing and exploring Shelley's idea that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world (Frost repeatedly joked through the years that he wanted to run for the Senate); asking what happens when poetry tries to speak to power. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Note 92: Carruthers, Book of Memory, 166: "The monastic custom of reading during meals is described in some texts as an explicit literalizing of the metaphor of consuming a book as one consumes food." back ❋ Unknown (2008)
I think that myth is the only way to understand truth in Scripture,, if one wants to to follow Scripture at all...as it is not a literalizing of the Kingdom, of defining sin other than what is legal, raising children, realting to you spouse, etc... ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)
Yet the experience of watching this intentionally incongruous coda is excruciating, and to no defensible effect beyond a shrug of the shoulders and an acknowledgement that literalizing the metaphysical is not Fassbinder's forte. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Morris responds to all this openheartedly, and without literalizing any of it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"The City & The City starts with the literalization of a metaphor, but it doesn't end there, because ultimately it is not literalizing one metaphor but is, rather, literalizing an idea that is rich with metaphorical potential." ❋ Unknown (2009)
This is exactly what I meant by using "metphors" and then literalizing them in application. ❋ James F. McGrath (2008)
The "Skin" project was a way of literalizing that for me, this idea that we take language in. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It's not a book about literalizing metaphor or anything so pedestrian; it is, instead, a meditation on how to find meaning in life. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Kafka benefitted from the literalizing tendency of fantasy that pounds similes into basic metaphors, allowing the Castle to be not just like something we desire entering, but something K. truly does want to enter. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Mitchell, unable as always to discern the tactful limits of a figure of speech, insisted on literalizing and materializing the trope, making it not only something we say, but something we see and handle like a figure emerging in sand or clay. ❋ Unknown (1997)
W thought about the pathos of the blind beggar in The Prelude, how that affect was generated by the juxtaposition of the image of the blind man with the sign around his neck: the sheer oddness of conceiving of that "Shape" as a figurative extension for the written "Story" around his neck, and the equally bizarre sense of literalizing those words as the man on whose neck they hung. ❋ Unknown (1997)
This literalizing of the conflict has come about in Germany rather along the lines of theory; in England, through the operation of the trade unions, in the course of which the individually personal element of the antagonism has been overcome. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)
wrong-->"Oh my god, Jessica, your post literally scared me to death" right--> "I literally wrote [this post] at [3:04] [A.M]." ❋ Deathmatch1127 (2015)
Person 1: I am literally going to have [a stroke] if I see another tweet about [fake news].
Person 2: Are you really? Should I call [911]?
Person 1: Why would you call 911? ❋ DatJewishkid (2017)
Incorrect usage:
A: It was literally [raining cats and dogs].
B: Really dipshit? How many [scratches] do you have?
Correct usage:
A: Dude, Justin Bieber literally has half a billion views on YouTube.
B: Shit, really? Now I know the world is coming to [an end] ❋ Grammerpalice (2011)
'dude.. i literally died'
'oh... its [a shame] [you are] literally [still alive] though' ❋ Tom Healey (2016)
"I literally died laughing."
"He just texted me, omg I literally can't."
"I am literally over it."
"This is literally the best [peanut butter and jelly sandwich] anyone ever made."
"He is literally such a jerk."
"I was literally, like, almost about to cry."
Now, let's look at this word used correctly:
"I know you're [lactose intolerant]...don't worry, there's literally no dairy in my house."
"Kim Kardashian has done [literally nothing] to deserve fame or fortune."
"Kanye West literally thinks he is Jesus Christ." ❋ Deest (2017)
1. The [literacy] rate is 97% in America, meaning 97% of Americans can [read and write].
2. The difference between a literate [roleplayer] and an advanced roleplayer is that being advanced specifically states that you are good at writing (i.e. descriptions, characters) but literate just means you have good grammar, although they're often used interchangeably. ❋ Newbia (2005)
He's not [gunna] realize you're [joking], he's [literable]. ❋ AngelJean (2021)
“I literally walked 8 miles to the supermarket,” said [Shannyn].
"No, the supermarket is [litereally] less than a mile from here," replied [Gregor]. ❋ MikeInDC (2021)
"I am feeling very [literous]" is what he said as he tossed his [can of coke] out the window of his car.
"I am a very literous individual' thought damon as he continued to dump watermelons out of [the trunk] of his expeditions ❋ Thesneakygiraffe (2010)
[Literate]: Did you see that girl knock out the math teacher?
Non-Literate: omg did u see tha mofo [slung] that fag in his fuckin [ballz]??
(Grammar error fixed by CPU Killer) ❋ CPU Killer (2005)
