If you believe the Bible is the literal truth, the immortality of Henrietta’s cells makes perfect sense. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were, if not literal, then theoretical yawns. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were foundations more in line with the literal meaning of the word museum—that is, places consecrated to the worship of the Muses. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The silence at home, however, was finally more than a literal silence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said it was usually metaphoric, but for people who should never do acid again, it was literal. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Like she’s afraid to speak. And when you look at her, she turns bright red—red-red, like a tomato. A literal tomato.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This, he explains, is the figurative and literal lower region. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We played with their names, translating them into literal English so they sounded ridiculous. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In anything less than a perfectly literal environment, the autistic person is lost. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The uncomfortable reality is that a literal war has been waged on our most vulnerable communities, and convictions for relatively minor, nonviolent offenses have propelled mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Blue’s Clues got rid of the cleverness and originality that made Sesame Street the most beloved television program of its generation, created a plodding, literal show, and repeated each episode five times in a row. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violet, Klaus, and Sunny read their books and, in the back of their minds, hoped that soon their figurative escape would eventually turn into a literal one. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

There, at the climax of every show, he sits down in a comfortable chair to think — a chair known, of course, in the literal world of Blue’s Clues, as the Thinking Chair. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Reed tells students they have to interview someone—a mother or father or grandparent—about their own portages, the moments in their lives when they’ve had to take a journey, literal or metaphorical. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Down here, in the temple’s literal bowels, there was no faint smell of ink and parchment, only the clashing smells of old wood, sweet hay, and mucked dung. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The literal translation was something like “Easy Poems,” but trust me, this was not easy. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

So it must have simply astonished the dons of Oxford to hear this peculiar Italian, as he dipped and dodged, chucked and chirred, defending Copernicanism as the literal truth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“That is the literal meaning, yes, but what’s really being said is, ‘From nothing, nothing can come.’” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The disadvantage is that representational art, like prose, is always bound to the literal meaning and appearance of the everyday world, at least to some extent. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean it in the most literal sense.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that he had not really meant for me to kill the kitten, but my deep hate of him urged me toward a literal acceptance of his word. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eureka! This is it! Sister Germaine’s literal translation of Martin the Warrior’s Abbey blueprints.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He carried his life in his hands in a literal fashion. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the man had been speaking figuratively, but it is rather interesting to see his words borne out so immediately at the literal level. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Well, almost literal...there doesn’t seem to be an actual lock. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

They have a tendency to take expressions literally, and this literal interpretation is often incongruous with the standard one and therefore comical. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw it as an early test, a trial run that could help me determine what I might be able to accomplish as First Lady, a literal way to root myself in this new job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mulch had a prodigious appetite for tunneling, and that, unfortunately, is a literal translation. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But I do see now why it was no accident that I later wound up as a sub-editor with a literal blue pencil. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“And I met Bo and he was older and, at the time, seemed impossibly cool. Especially when I was used to a bunch of literal choirboys.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Really, Mother? Where are our bundles?” asked Amy, who was a very literal young lady. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know if he believed in the afterlife or a literal Jesus or what.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps from this mentality, as well as from uncritical literal copying, came the medieval habit of reporting reported observations and experiments as if they were original. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Okay, it’s kind of like a lost cat ad, except the cat’s actually a cute boy you met at the post office. But a human cute boy. Not a literal cat.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It's really more of a metaphor’ And Mark is writing, 'Definitely pick up actual literal snakes and drink actual real poison like rotten grape juice or other Bible-y poison’” “Who knows exactly what he meant?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The Pentagon, for its part, has given away military intelligence and millions of dollars in firepower to state and local agencies willing to make the rhetorical war a literal one. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Some things happen in a literal way, Lily. And then other things, like this one, happen in a not- literal way, but they still happen. Do you know what I mean?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was uncertain if this referred to Bud or to a literal blue jay, or if, perhaps, we were heading into the territory of senile dementia. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The old knight was a good man, but sometimes very literal. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Look, Omi, we made you an O! For your initial, and also a literal Circle of Friendship! Which was Mila’s idea,” she added, catching my eye. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A pall of another, quite literal, sort continued to hang over the larger world as well that month. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“My wedding was a disaster and even included a literal tornado. We hid in a bathroom for a half hour. I should have seen it as a sign of things to come.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was just so awesome, and in the literal sense. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Literally was one of Lexie’s favorite words, which she deployed even when the situation was anything but literal. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Forks was making me crazy in the literal sense of the word. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Finally, a dim light goes on in that head of yours. Yes, Fai Zhang. Your mother was not simply boosting your self-esteem. She was telling you the literal truth.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Those two tattered rags were literal pieces of her mother, the only things she had left now. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Earnestly and expertly, he cast himself not as an outsider but rather as a literal embodiment of the American story. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was literal minded, not a man who traded in metaphor or suggestion. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In the most literal way I needed to find my feet again. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Still others heard in the cry “Black Power” a frighteningly literal call to arms, an invitation to open rebellion and violent revolution. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They have difficulty interpreting nonverbal cues, such as gestures and facial expressions or putting themselves inside someone else's head or drawing understanding from anything other than the literal meaning of words. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She did not share his interests—she was a literal person who did not read, she was content rather than curious about the world—but he felt grateful to her, fortunate to be with her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’d felt the derision directed at my body, the literal space I occupied in the world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You know,” I began, finishing off a drink of water from my sippy cup, “everyone says history repeats itself, but I did not expect it to be so literal.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The literal meaning of Hajj in Arabic is to set out toward a definite objective. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather be anywhere than at home, putting curry in plastic boxes for customers. Mama is cooking up a literal storm this week, much of it Thanksgiving-related.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t thought at all about the literal act, the moment of asking, though of course the idea of being married to her was something I’d considered since the beginning. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’d make it perfectly literal, without any wordplay or comedy that would confuse preschoolers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

St. John’s eyes, though clear enough in a literal sense, in a figurative one were difficult to fathom. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

At its most literal, the title of “Secret Sunshine” refers to an old meaning of the word Miryang. | 'Secret Sunshine': Fierce Tests of Endurance and the Resilience of the Spirit 2010-12-21T23:18:57Z

Admirers view them as sumptuous realizations of the visions of the composers and librettists, while critics see them as old-­fashioned and overly literal. Günther Schneider-­Siemssen, Opera Stage Designer, Dies at 88 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

In any case, precisely his devotion to Scripture would have made his understanding of it nuanced and rich, and not in the least “literal.” The Truth and Fiction of Adam and Eve 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Who the president is matters in the symbolic sense in addition to the literal authority as the chief executive in the executive branch of the government. The unexpected silver lining of Donald Trump’s misogyny: “It’s a teachable moment, on steroids” 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

“Wow. You went literal race card, Don,” Wilmore quipped after revisiting the Lemon clip. Larry Wilmore mocks CNN’s Don Lemon for using the “literal race card” 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

"The Supreme Price" may sound like a metaphorical title, but after seeing this strong, forthright documentary, you'll understand it's the literal truth. 'Supreme Price' tallies the cost of seeking change in Nigeria 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Well-known atheist Bill Maher clashed with the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Ralph Reed, on his show Friday while discussing whether the Bible is the literal word of God. Bill Maher: Christian faith in God is the ‘purposeful suspension of critical thinking’ 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

His piece de resistance was a piece of literal blue-sky thinking: buying cloud-bursting technology to increase the hours of sunshine. Joan Collins, political thinker? There are worse ideas 2011-08-23T14:47:35Z

"I'm very literal, when people talk to me and they use expressions, sometimes I don't know what they're saying," Seinfeld said. Jerry Seinfeld thinks he may be on the autism spectrum 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

The success of Don's pitch leaves her with a literal spring in her step. Mad Men: season one, episode eight 2010-05-21T15:14:00Z

On the more literal side, it can be a way of expressing, say, the sensation caused by a broken air-conditioner. The Melting Face Emoji Has Already Won Us Over 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

They create a literal living graphic novel by way of film noir, from the wry opening credits to the twisted irony of the pathological protagonist’s final statement. If Alfred Hitchock turned a graphic novel into live theater: It's the ingenious 'Historia de Amor' 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

That conceit is not always accurate, but of course it is through video games that we control the most direct and literal versions of our digital selves. Critic's Notebook: In Tron Franchise, Cyberpresent Looks a Lot Like the Past 2011-01-14T17:29:26Z

Honestly, these covers are beyond belief, from the literal take on The Turn of the Screw to this Mills & Boonesque Balzac. World's worst book covers: would these make their authors cry? 2012-10-04T12:31:46Z

In one of those movies, he’s a literal fighter. Here's every single thing that is wrong with Collateral Beauty 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

A literal translation would be “antibullet,” an idea that Mr. Perna, who was born in Philadelphia of Mexican descent and now lives in Texas, said also figures in the band’s philosophy. Antibalas, Afrobeat Band, Hopes for Post-‘Fela!’ Audience 2012-08-06T22:32:17Z

I think people — particularly this younger generation — are a little too literal. ‘Luke Cage’ Season 2: A New Villain and Respectability Politics 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Here in the hayloft, that becomes a literal and urgent question. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

Do you see deeper meaning in this story of a man who cannot achieve adulthood until he parts ways with this literal artifact from his youth? ArtsBeat: The Animated Life of Seth MacFarlane, From 'Family Guy' to 'Ted' 2012-06-19T14:00:19Z

Translators do not blindly look for literal translations. "Squid Game": Why you shouldn’t be too hard on translators 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

A hacking cough intervenes now and then: hacking in the literal sense, as though she keeps breaking from our conversation to chop wood. Judy Davis: 'I never wanted celebrity' 2013-04-25T16:53:00Z

Graphic, literal representations of Niki and the Dove's music they are not. New band of the day ? No 913: Niki and the Dove 2010-11-19T16:31:00Z

Believers have offered all sorts of elaborate defences of religion over the centuries, including excursions into poetry, drama and florid fantasy, but Grayling will focus forensically on the "literal sense" behind their high-flown words. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z

In the literal sense, wholly made-up garbage is fairly rare in works of fiction. Perspective | Mr. President, you don’t know a poorly written novel 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

For a stuntman, the work of being a double involves literal brutality. The Brutal Logic of Stardom in “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood” 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

On a glittery white set by Walt Spangler designed to evoke a grandiose pulpit, the show opens with McPherson facing the toughest of her literal trials. Theater Review: ‘Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson’ 2012-11-16T03:00:13Z

There was a film with Depardieu that was the literal play, and it’s a masterpiece. Snapshot : Clémence Poésy’s Broadway Debut in ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ 2012-10-28T18:18:35Z

Nick might usurp most of the screen time, but it’s Mr. Del Toro, face flickering from benevolent to vicious and body heaving with literal and symbolic weight, who seizes the film. Review: ‘Escobar: Paradise Lost’ Stars Benicio Del Toro as Drug Lord 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

That she is too literal, and that it’s a flaw, Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Think my poems are lowbrow? All of these are based on science jokes. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Yet the work continually draws attention to particular individuals, particular faces, either with a literal spotlight or through stillness amid motion. Dance Review: Pavel Zustiak’s ‘Painted Bird’ Blurs Insiders and Outsiders 2013-07-02T21:27:31Z

Think about the term “background music” in a very literal sense and you’re talking about a sound as vast as the world around you. Perspective | Best music of 2020: Theo Parrish, Noname, Pop Smoke, Hailey Whitters and more 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

He is the first chef to draw such a sharp line from his cooking to the unique potential of his agricultural landscape, linking his heritage to his literal backyard. For Niven Patel, Farm-to-Table Cooking Means Taro and Mangoes 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

On one hand, Cher owns “Fernando” to the degree that the movie has to provide a literal fireworks display to match her performance. Here We (Let It) Go Again: ‘Frozen 2’ and Movie Musical Sequels 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

And there is a sustained analogy between land and mind, whereby the narrator's access to his buried emotions is enabled only by means of a literal digging into the Jurassic bedrock of south-west Dorset. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z

In "Bittersweet", the use of literal roots to suggest metaphorical ones is not exactly surprising, but it's effective because it's grounded in clear and precise description. Water Sessions by James Lasdun – review 2012-10-05T21:55:01Z

Write a description in note form of everything you see in this framed space, in as much literal detail as possible. Alan Brownjohn's poetry workshop 2010-04-20T08:00:00Z

"Things have to be believable," Foreman says, "not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense – capturing the essence of the situation." Michael Foreman: life through a line 2011-03-07T15:39:18Z

“The Master,” unfolding in the anxious, movie-saturated years just after World War II, is not a work of history in the literal or even the conventionally literary sense. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z

The songs owe a great deal to the girl groups of the 1950s and ’60s, a point rendered literal by one fan who did the Twist for much of La Sera’s set. At CMJ, Some Get Spotlight; Others Get Lost in the Haze 2010-10-22T23:42:00Z

In the most literal sense, you’ve packed the stage with Irish soil. Druid Theater Company Makes Shakespeare’s Histories Its Own 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Kent says that it’s the film’s truth — not a literal truth, but a psychological one grounded in the director’s compassion for the flawed characters — that sets “The Babadook” apart. ‘Babadook’ director Jennifer Kent talks about women making horror movies 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

This biographical excursion is hardly irrelevant — it clarifies Bergoglio’s political views, and also his fallibility — but the information could have been conveyed in a less literal manner. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

At first, it seems overly literal, but after her mouth is full, she faces the audience and sings along — the words are garbled — to another song. Dance Review: Slovene Dancers Show ?Ways of Love? 2010-05-28T21:50:00Z

Start your visit with a literal taste of the city. 36 Hours in San Juan 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

On the radicalism scale, she resides somewhere left of Alice Waters and Michael Pollan, equating corn syrup to poison in the literal sense. Natalina Zarzour: Sugar and spice and everything ... in between 2010-12-21T06:00:00Z

The literal, matter-of-fact style that Reznikoff uses in the poem is not accidental; it is a conscious technical choice. How poetry can be written after Auschwitz 2011-01-11T13:02:06Z

In Dorner’s case, the allegory of life to a furnace takes literal weight — he has died, consumed by fire. Christopher Dorner was not a monster 2013-02-14T23:26:00Z

It’s quite a brilliant little introduction—one that makes literal both the time period of “Fargo”’s second season, on the cusp of Reagan’s election, and that “Fargo” is a filmed production, not “real life.” “Fargo” recap: Season two is already so much better than season one 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

They begin this process by putting her on a literal stage—one for a movie. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Everyone Has a Breaking Point 2012-11-05T13:00:37Z

“Are these wounds ever healed? And as a former surgeon and an army doctor, Burri’s wounds are quite literal.” Coming to the Met’s Rooftop: A Pierre Huyghe Installation 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The connections between the two parts are neither obvious nor literal. For ‘Hangmen’ and ‘Escaped Alone,’ Connecting Threads in London 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

This last at least is literal: grapes, blackberries, the ripest plums.” Review: ‘The Fire This Time,’ Stoked by Baldwin’s Legacy 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Theater has the luxury of not being literal in its presentation of improbable activities and far-reaching scale. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Urge to Fly 2011-03-10T17:31:44Z

“Biopic” is a clumsy word for a prosaic genre, and screen biographies of writers are more apt to be literal than lyrical. ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Alas, the stories are dreadfully sincere and painfully literal. Netflix's Sense8 is the Wachowskis' very own Lost, with a few big flaws 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Perhaps photographs seemed to him too literal, too far from the interior states that were his real project. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z

Not to be too literal, but we do know what "Yellowjackets" is about, right? "Never was a cornflake girl": Why a 1994 album by Tori Amos belongs in "Yellowjackets" 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

It is a book full of windows – often of literal transparency. Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts – review 2013-04-22T08:00:04Z

These are the ingredients used in the farm’s cooking classes, which are offered a few times a week and give “farm-to-table” a very literal and personal meaning. Can Responsible Travel to Hawaii Be Fun? We Gave It a Try. 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

It was a literal retelling of the Bradbury story. Bernie Taupin Tells the Story Behind 1972’s ‘Rocket Man’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

Zambra uses their bond to think through literary, and literal, inheritance. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

But as the novel goes on, the characters begin to encounter one another in literal and figurative ways. Books of The Times: To Wagner, With Love and Morbidity 2010-12-27T23:09:40Z

“I felt like I saw literal tumbleweeds roll down 44th Street.” No Broadway Shows? No Problem. Walking Tours Fill a Void. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

I’ve since joked that I was the “literal poster child for bullying,” but it’s not so funny. I Was Bullied for Being Arab. Nine Inch Nails Threw Me a Lifeline. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

For those who saw Europe as Britain’s path to a future after empire, St. Pancras became both a literal and symbolic connection to the Continent. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

He did not request a vow of silence from music critics, though, so here goes: “True Love” is eerie and uncomfortable, a literal begging. Music Review: Coldplay Unveils New Songs at the Beacon Theater 2014-05-06T21:32:31Z

“Consumed” is a metaphor in this case, but sometimes it feels almost literal, as if our country and its public discourse had been eaten by alien invaders or a viral epidemic. Salon’s Trump-free Tuesday: For one day, we won’t publish his name or his picture 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

But before we get there, an unexpected trap chute opens, dumping her — and us — into an oceanic trench, both literal and metaphorical. A Star of Y.A. Literature Returns. This Time, She’s Talking to Adults. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

But I found in them an unexpected beauty, both literal and metaphorical. Art in Review: Marc Quinn: ‘All the Time in the World’ 2013-05-23T19:12:12Z

I’ve always taken Secret Santa spending limits to be suggestive rather than literal. Can I Call Out My Friend for Lying About Her Dad’s Death? 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

But Blank is equally concerned with what it means and how it feels to be an artist, which is to say a maker of metaphorical masks and literal alter egos. ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ Review: Rapper’s Delight 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

The afterlife of campaign merchandise is unusually literal, because, after Election Day, these objects experience something like death. What Does the MAGA Hat Mean Now? 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

At its most literal — but rather beautiful — that meant a coat with a multifaceted bodice. Fashion Review: Chanel: Crystal Inspires Lagerfeld 2012-03-06T19:29:09Z

Finck writes beautifully of this struggle but is suddenly beset with self-doubt that gnaws at her in the form of literal rats. A Graphic Memoir That Confronts the Weirdness Within 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Such films as Contagion and Outbreak – or less literal projections, like the zombie armageddon of 28 Days Later – allow audiences to vicariously live through the end of days and survey what will be left after. Exposure therapy: why we're obsessed with watching virus movies 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

The production is also surprisingly literal, which will please the traditionalists – Wagner's rainbow motif, for instance, is accompanied by a projection of rainbow colours. Das Rheingold 2010-09-28T09:16:00Z

In a more literal sense, he was resurrected after his body turned cold. 10 Reasons Jon Snow and Daenerys Might End Up Together on Game of Thrones Even Though It’s Kind of Weird 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

There are the literal tools — ropes, hammers, shovels — but also the philosophical ones — “the village needs every one of us to help and every one of us to believe in each other.” Hillary Clinton has a new children’s book. You may recognize its message. 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Granddaughter Michelle Duster said traditional busts and statues of Wells was considered, but she and others pushing for the monument preferred something interpretative, which she said projects Wells better than the literal. Monument to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells unveiled 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

But we buy it: theater is fantasy, not literal reality. Provocative 'Oklahoma!' hits 5th Avenue stage 2012-02-11T00:06:04Z

The new piece, for four musicians, tries to evoke the Gehry home with means both literal and conceptual. Composer Andrew Norman tries to evoke Gehry home in 'Frank's House' 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

I don’t like it to be so literal all the time. ArtsBeat: Q. and A. With Lady Gaga on Her 'Freedom Ride' 2011-05-20T12:00:49Z

The conversations between the selves are literal journal entries from about 10 years ago. The National Book Foundation singles out the five best young writers in America 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

The speaker is the literal subject of "long wont to roam". Poem of the week: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe 2010-04-26T09:17:00Z

But the transition, from the literal underground to the former home of the Pearl Theater Company in Hell’s Kitchen, a short walk from Broadway, also carries unavoidable symbolic weight. An Upright Citizens Brigade Theater Closes With Filthy Fanfare 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. McQueen is a tenaciously literal filmmaker, mistrusting metaphor and psychological speculation and dwelling on the facts of behavior and bodily experience. | 'Shame': ?Shame,? Directed by Steve McQueen - Review 2011-12-01T13:00:00Z

Mine was close to literal: I was the restaurant critic here at The New York Times. Seize the Morning: The Case for Breakfast 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

As “The Debt” grows more complex and suspenseful, it also becomes more literal, losing some of its dramatic intensity. | 'The Debt': ?Debt,? With Helen Mirren - Review 2011-08-30T12:00:00Z

So Schutt’s translation does exactly what a trot, or literal translation, does for students of classical Greek: it helps them read—and fall in love with—the original. An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

“From an aesthetic point of view, in the beginning we have to be very literal with symbols and anatomy in order to legitimize our design territory,” he said. Ferrari Is Racing Into Fashion 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

“We try to keep as good a literal church-state barrier as possible, so to speak.” How the True/False Film Festival and a Church Work Together 2014-02-22T00:21:15Z

Madsen cheerily dances to the 1974 hit before taking out a razor to torture a man for whom the song’s lyrics are all too literal. Mood music: how a jaunty pop song can ramp up movie terror 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

The composers’ and musicians’ intentions were not always literal. Musicians harmonize with nature for outdoor audiences — including snakes 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

For a writer as good as Borges, he argued, "the stories so completely transcend their motive facts that the biographical facts become, in the deepest and most literal way, irrelevant." Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace – review 2012-08-30T07:00:41Z

To make a serious play out of such home-style ingredients is tricky today; a writer risks literal kitchen-sinkiness. Review: Sisters Plot Their Escapes From ‘Napoli, Brooklyn’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Commenters at the design blog Brand New found it too literal—too close, in other words, to the vintage matchbooks elsewhere in the feed. Instagram’s Endangered Ephemera 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

These invisible traces of his hand — hidden meanings in the literal sense — signify that his dresses are more than luxurious commodities. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

The fluid medium of paint, with its literal and figurative depth, with its capacity for atmospherics, is something else. Zaha Hadid Was Just Getting Started 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

But we also often make statements that are not literally true—that are in fact literal lies—while conveying a deeper truth that an honest statement of the facts could not communicate. What the Original “Pinocchio” Really Says About Lying 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

You have to be in literal stage one beginner to go on stage for the first time. "I'm actually not freezing my eggs": Nikki Glaser opens up about comedy, fertility and oversharing 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

In any case, hats, literal or figurative, are most meaningful in context. Lionel Shriver Puts On a Sombrero 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

While he concedes that the most literal image may be a boy falling down a hill and dying, Pecknold said the song is definitely NOT about decapitation. Red snow? A most unexpected modern standard for the holidays 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Or, as I first heard it, seeking a more literal interpretation, "livin' on a prairie". Family life 2012-10-12T23:05:19Z

Her territory is Newark, but not just the literal one in the shadow of Manhattan. Review: In ‘Sanctuary City,’ Slamming the Door on the Dream 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

When he turns his attention to a British flapper who was all the rage at age 19 in 1926, he’s drifting from a literal notion of adolescence. ‘Teenage’: Meandering look at 20th-century youth can get old 2014-05-08T19:56:59Z

It’s the universal connector, rich or poor, a literal barometer of how we’re doing. The weather used to be good for small talk. Now it’s dead serious. 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

The group, led by Artistic Director Lola B. Pierson, sent me — and you can get one, too — a literal play in a box: a do-it-in-your-own-time delight titled “The Institute for Counterfeit Memory.” Review | Relief from Zoom sometimes comes in a box. A play in a box. 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

But even there, a very literal connection exists: Guglielmo Marconi made his first wireless broadcast to the United States from one of the hotel’s ballrooms. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Many lasting, vibrant scenes involve literal penetration — yes, sexual, but also otherwise, ritualistic, say, or symbolic. Stories of Our Perverse Present and Our Haunted Futures 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Eventually, it just gifts the lead character, a scam artist turned educator, with a literal book of quotations. ‘Bad Seeds’ Review: A Scam Artist Teaches From the School of Life 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

Yes, all that magic in an interactive throw pillow that doubles as a literal “Face/Off” tribute. From Oprah to Goop, these crazy gift guide suggestions caught Salon's imagination 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

This serves as fodder, both literal and conceptual, for “The Prancing Elites Project,” a reality show about the troupe, which begins Wednesday on Oxygen. Review: For ‘The Prancing Elites Project,’ the March Goes On 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

If anything, it cased further harm: to the 17 children he left behind and to the pockets of U.S. taxpayers, who covered the literal costs of his incarceration. Reggae star Buju Banton’s long walk to freedom 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

The title, whose literal meaning is “hairy one,” is the French equivalent of “grunt” or “dogface.” Books of The Times: ‘Poilu,’ a French Memoir About Serving on the Western Front 2014-04-20T21:11:41Z

That disgusting conceit provides a fitting central image for the movie, a cold-blooded noir in which the overarching question is which chumps will become chum, literal or metaphorical. Review: In ‘Bayou Caviar,’ the Main Course Is a Cold-Blooded Noir 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

“They weren’t literal references, more to set up a flavor,” Mr. Savides said. Film: It?s What She Knows: The Luxe Life 2010-12-10T22:53:00Z

But as concern about literal toxins expanded, Martin said, so did metaphorical uses of “toxic.” ‘Toxic’ Is Oxford’s Word of the Year. No, We’re Not Gaslighting You. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Therefore, the literal precedents for all that we’re seeing now: an album like Yes’s “Tales of Topographic Oceans” — four sides with one track each, remember? — and a 13-minute video like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Musicians Redefine Long Play in 2015 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

From the first scene, which starts with many literal bangs, to the last image, the film is a taut nail-biter. ‘Dunkirk’ director Christopher Nolan excels at building suspense. Here’s how he does it. 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

There’s a lot of leaping in “We Are Who We Are,” figurative and literal. Review: ‘We Are Who We Are’ Captures Not-So-Innocents Abroad 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

Her stuff goes from this philosophical existential crisis to this literal crisis of existence. "Keep Breathing" creators talk survival, not Googling solutions and that controversial ending 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

He disappears into the role in all but the most literal sense, and when his eyes aren’t completely vacant, they’re filled with a panic and fury that Bateman only knows how to extinguish through violence. American Psycho at 20: a vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

On the plus side for the farm, Dog Mountain recently renovated a landmark Carnation business into a literal farm-to-table cafe. At Dog Mountain cafe, there's duck confit, tomato jam… but no raw milk 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

I realize now how … literal that would be. Taylor Swift Remade ‘Fearless’ as ‘Taylor’s Version.’ Let’s Discuss. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

All sorts of literal beliefs are held about the occurrence of miracles, the holiness of the water, the reality of Bernadette's visions and so on. Lourdes: realistic about religion 2010-04-07T11:00:00Z

And it may result in philosophers interpreting his writing as much as symbol as literal. Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z

The mostly literal images and faces of strangers seemed to obstruct rather than enhance one's own impulses to wonder and reflect while listening to music of unparalleled abstract, melodic and rhythmic force. This sound did not need a film dimension 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

IT MAY BE confusing to hear battle rap called a community when events often involve rappers spraying insults, death threats and literal spit in their opponents’ faces. The Fierce, Flourishing World of Battle Rap 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

“We want to tell the story in theatrical terms, and ultimately theater does fantasy better than film because it is less literal. I think theater language helped us to tell a slightly more abstract story.” ‘The Red Shoes’ Takes the Stage 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

It recalls the elegant portraiture of yesteryear—the winsome soul singers of the nineteen-fifties and sixties, often the literal faces of their records, their mouths curled into knowing, come-this-way smiles, their hair spun to tendrils. The Singer Angel Olsen Is Present 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The overly literal, shapeless nature of the storytelling takes its toll in the latter half of the series, which flattens out into a long, slow march to a foregone conclusion. ‘George & Tammy’ Review: We’re Gonna Hold On (Until We Don’t) 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

First, there are the literal translations included in the program books for opera recordings, or published separately. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

Instead he lets others do that for him, whether it’s the dancers whose stories he shapes in documentary-like accounts of their lives or the singers whose words he converts into a literal physicality. Dance Review: Snapshots of One Dancer?s Life Give a Glimpse Into an Art Form 2010-09-19T22:09:00Z

Much is often made of the handmade attractions of Aardman’s work, of the signature imperfections and literal fingerprints on its creations. Movie Review: ?The Pirates! Band of Misfits,? From Aardman Animations 2012-04-26T17:03:02Z

But mostly "Big Eyes" unfolds like so many film biographies, a bit too literal and linear — then this happens, then this. Tim Burton's 'Big Eyes' feels too paint-by-numbers 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Over at Grantland, Molly Lambert examined the video at length: "'Anaconda' turns Nicki’s butt into a literal force of nature, causing earthquakes in a jungle setting." Friday coda: 'Anaconda' booty, Talib Kweli vs. CNN, Aphex Twin blimp 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Schroeder’s oil or watercolor paintings vary from literal landscapes to near-abstractions that hint at storm clouds, ocean currents or volcanic flows. In the galleries: Lines are clearly drawn in ‘Art as Politics’ 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

In the course of the 19th century, American still life painting transformed from a literal and provincial medium into a locus of visual metaphor and artistic experimentation. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Of course it was a more literal kind of dialogue, one that broke the commonly agreed-upon wall between actors and audience, that antagonized Mr. Trump into a series of admonitory tweets. ‘Hamilton’ Duel: Addressing the President-Elect on His Own Blunt Terms 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

Edelman’s film is strongest on this point, delving deep into Simpson’s early life, charting his literal escape from the burdens of blackness, while his fame skyrocketed in the NFL. ESPN’s ‘O.J.: Made in America’ is nothing short of a towering achievement 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

In a more literal sense, a dose of the city itself will turn up every week when the locally shot police drama "The Chicago Code" debuts on Fox in February. Geekery leverages duo into TV 2010-12-21T22:44:00Z

Before I elaborate, let me assure you: This evolution will not interfere with the council's continued devotion to holding filmmakers accountable for deviating from the literal truth. 'Cars can't fly' (Yes, they can! See: 'Furious 7'!) and other falsehoods 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

He destroyed these works, but they convinced him that he could not do without legible words, ones that were both literal and resonant. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

“There’s a literal track, and there’s an abstract track. And in the ballet, the abstract track is more important.” Turning ‘a Nightmare of Ghoulish Obscenities’ Into a Ballet 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

It’s a literal translation of a very personal childhood fear. Andy Muschietti Narrates a Scene From ‘It’ 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Regardless, the idea of imposing real-world standards of attractiveness on any movie or TV show just seems pointlessly literal. Is She Really Going Out With Him? 2013-02-12T19:33:59Z

The film, Mr. Fish said, is a series of scenes that respond to the novel but “in a kind of slightly ‘off’ way, not a very direct or literal way.” Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ Set for American Debut 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

“It’s the most literal type of casting, perhaps, but Stacy’s performance is powerfully commanding and straightforward,” the critic Tom Shales wrote in The Washington Post. James Stacy, Actor Who Kept Working After a Disabling Crash, Dies at 79 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

In these writings, Truffaut at first uses the term “auteur” in a literal way, to refer to “writer-directors,” who aren’t merely the realizers of a film but are personally responsible for its drama and dialogue. The Truffaut Essays That Clear Up Misguided Notions of Auteurism 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

He, too, is concerned with appearances, but in a more literal way than Comey. Review: ‘The Comey Rule’ and What a Fool Believes 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

That’s the literal version of what I advise you to do figuratively. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: After your spouse’s affair, how do you know whether to stay or go? 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

I want to represent changes in our states of being but without being literal. Flamenco?s Women Put Their Foot Down 2012-02-23T23:40:04Z

For some of us—Amazon workers, Uber drivers—it’s less a metaphor than a literal reality. The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

The connection between Shakespeare and the Buenos Aires bohemians is, on one level, perfectly literal and straightforward. Movie Review: In ‘Viola,’ Shakespeare Is Lens to Look at Young Argentines 2013-07-11T21:39:22Z

"If you wanted a literal parallel, you'd set it in Afghanistan or something like that, but for me it's a more general point about unquestioning cultural superiority." Kevin Macdonald: "I didn't understand Hollywood" 2011-03-17T21:30:00Z

The ultimate irony at the end is that what these characters achieve is literal Magical Negro status — a final embrace of stereotypes from a show that aspires to upend them. The Unintended Racial Horror of ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

What lithographs gain in literal detail they sometimes sacrifice in emotional force. ‘Mutiny: Works by Géricault’ Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a lot on a lot on a lot, and occasionally involves literal preaching to the choir — though of course, that how you make ’em sing. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

On the literal plane they speak to relations between humans and nature. Art Review: ‘Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms’ at the Guggenheim 2012-11-15T21:37:24Z

And for good reason: His canvases were expressive explosions of color and light at a time when many paintings were still pretty darn literal. Datebook: J.M.W. Turner's late work, African portraiture, lowbrow pin-ups 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Dawkins is dead to metaphor, and tries to annul it by insisting on the literal occurrence, contained in actual words, of the virgin birth and the resurrection. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z

If you’re alone, the outside is pouring in on you and there’s nothing to give you comfort in the literal sense. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

As in Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” in which there was a literal underground railroad, there is a tear here in the fabric of reality. With ‘The Water Dancer,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes His Fiction Debut 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Your television exists safely within those boundaries, and in the literal comfort zone of your living room. This Year Was a Disaster. We Hope the Sequel Is Better. 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

To capture the ballet’s story of protest and community, Mr. Leon provided literal references: Shirts were printed with words like “defy,” “change” and “fight.” Opening Ceremony Swaps the Runway for the Ballet Stage 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

His Eton and Oxford education was not substantial enough for him to be able to hazard "big chart" as a literal translation of Magna Carta. David Cameron on Letterman: politics is not light entertainment 2012-09-28T19:31:01Z

Content to honor the spirit through music rather than mimicry, Nguajah and Chop & Quench avoided literal reenactment altogether. Chop & Quench brings Fela Kuti's 'The '69 L.A. Sessions' to life 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

Yet while Mr. Lubovitch deftly uses the Graham technique, his interpretation is too literal to love. Dance Review: Martha Graham Dance Company at the Joyce Theater 2012-03-14T22:27:56Z

And it reflects its mixed origins in a literal way. Missing ‘Gomorrah’? Watch This 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

The Saint Pablo tour, which began in August, took the worship elements of the album and rendered them literal. Kanye West’s Year of Breaking Bad 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

One thing you get, or rather don’t, is the violent imagery that in a literal representation can short circuit other values. Review: In the Disturbing ‘Dana H.,’ Whose Voice Is It Anyway? 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

A waste of money and a literal waste, all that packaging and promotional material destined straight for the recycling bin. Artifacts of the Lost Year 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

He specialized in creating a literal and conversational haze and then finding his way toward a story, usually couched in some amusing, self-deprecating remarks. Alexander Chancellor’s Laugh 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

In a literal sense, Lilley says, he's right – but those melodies are now chiefly played on piano, french horn and harp. Michel Legrand puts his Umbrellas up indoors 2011-03-17T22:10:01Z

Because the worker who asks you for your I.D. is black or Hispanic, and male, too, and he needs to make a living, even if it’s at someone’s literal and figurative expense. Revealing and Obscuring Myself on the Streets of New York 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nolan’s idea of the mind is too literal, too logical, too rule bound to allow the full measure of madness — the risk of real confusion, of delirium, of ineffable ambiguity — that this subject requires.” Dvdsdave Kehr: Rain City Woes and Escape in the Desert 2010-12-03T16:01:00Z

As a server, Sandy Tran was used to unwanted comments on her appearance, but the coronavirus precautions enforced by her Dallas restaurant now required full-time face coverage — a literal barrier between Tran and creepy customers. Perspective | ‘Take off your mask’: Boorish customers have found a way to make sexual harassment even more of a hazard 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

And yes, the bouncing snowflake thing is literal. Frozen Sing-Along: Follow the Bouncing Snowflake 2014-01-23T15:35:26Z

“For millions of immigrants, Ambrose was the literal light of liberty,” said Jonathan Boulware, executive director of the museum. South Street Seaport Museum Gets City Funds to Restore Lightship 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

The show hinges upon the idea of creating a literal New Society within the immersive bubble of the theatre space. Miranda July: 'I'm always disappointing my dad politically' 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

The abstract artistic language of the choreography and script allows the artists to slip past the literal depictions of the mural into elliptical dance fragments. Artists Reveal a Dark Side of the Bourse’s Crowning Glory 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

Crucially, Truffaut viewed authorship in terms of literal authority, of power, and he placed as much emphasis on the production of films as on their direction. The Truffaut Essays That Clear Up Misguided Notions of Auteurism 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

Their discovery made literal the promise of menace that made the Alexandrians’ suburban obliviousness so intolerable last season. 'The Walking Dead' Season 6 Premiere Recap: 'First Time Again' 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

The Homestead strike of 1892 turned into a literal conflagration, as steelworkers in Pennsylvania set the Monongahela River on fire. In ‘Behemoth,’ Manufacturing Still Looms Large 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Despite his fixation with both literal and metaphorical black, Mr. Delfin is by far the most colorful character on the Spanish fashion scene. Playful and Sleek, With Subversive Twists 2010-08-02T14:35:00Z

In these latter days of “alternative facts,” the idea of someone fearlessly dedicated to total, literal honesty sounds awfully appealing. In ‘The One-Eyed Man,’ Ron Currie has created a character for our times 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

You have to be willing to accept answers that are spiritual and not literal. Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

His Uncle Spanky, a literal rock star in the Philippines until he left in 1988, became a baggage handler at San Francisco International Airport. A Powerful Story of Coming to America, Finding Promise and Paradox 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

The Game of Thrones cast might have seen off dragons and a literal army of the dead, but whether they can stand up to the ruthlessness of Carolyn Martens is another matter entirely. Game of Thrones: the stars forced to nominate themselves for Emmys 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Then, of course, Fisk shows up to twist the proverbial knife after Nobu spent an hour dicing Matt up with a literal one. 'Daredevil' Episode 9 review: 'Speak of the Devil' -- It's a trap! 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

Deb, a recent art-school graduate, has her share of problems even before the concept of identity theft becomes disconcertingly literal. Who is Deb, anyway? In 'D Deb Debbie Deborah,' more questions than answers 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

It’s not that you need to be literal with “Waiting for Godot”; it’s anything but a naturalistic drama. Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

When last we saw our group, their hard won respite at the Abigail compound had ended in literal flames, and families were split apart. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 8: The Zombie Code 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

And Heinrich Neugeboren, in designing a monument to Bach by visualizing the lines of a fugue, attempted to make literal Goethe’s famous description of architecture as frozen music. At the Bauhaus, Music Was More Than a Hobby 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

The darkness in “The Batman” is pervasive and literal. ‘The Batman’ Review: Who’ll Stop the Wayne? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

MF begs us not to get distracted by the literal meaning of those lines — or the violence they inspired. Review | ‘Riots I Have Known’ is criminally funny 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

The big takeaway from the sequence, though, was not the intrusion of a literal struggle for survival onto the show. Survivor's Medical Emergency Proves This Is a Critical Moment for Reality TV 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

Medieval facade after medieval facade flitted by, the images so boringly literal that they obliterated any potential for the music to spark its own evocations. RSNO/Oundjian – review 2013-03-24T13:53:47Z

She traces their changing cultural importance over time and shows that the way in which fundamentalists have embraced literal interpretations of scripture is a recent phenomenon. 13 Books to Watch For in November 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

To be literal, its setting is a sickeningly pink double room in the hospital of its title. Review: ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit’ Blends Rage With Gallows Humor 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Her first thought was, she said, “Oh, God. What have I done? The last thing I need right now is to be responsible for this quite literal ruin.” How Much Hip Can the Desert Absorb? 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Snipping away was sometimes literal by Piccioli — like in holes down the sides of pants or vertical cutouts down a lime tunic. Race, age, weight: Valentino backs diversity in Paris show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

“Come to be/to become” — a litany of words teases away literal meaning, in preference for a felt sonic meaning. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

However, there's one particular difference: It once featured literal sea moss as the primary thickening component. A magical maple-mint pudding with a secret Irish ingredient 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

In the other, the gnawing is more literal. Review: In ‘Breeders,’ Parenting as a (Literal) Cage Match 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

The hypothetical question from August has now become a literal one for artists. Do it for the country? Or don’t do it at all? The dilemma facing artists at Trump’s inauguration. 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

To me, the most amazing thing about this music is that it's so emotional without being literal. The Rite of Spring at Sadler's Wells: 'It takes you to so many places' 2013-04-03T17:30:01Z

“Literally” should be reserved for literal situations; there are plenty of ways to intensify a statement rather than saying, “We literally walked a million miles.” Get over it 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The judges never seemed to know exactly what they were looking for from week to week, celebrating verisimilitude in one episode and fretting about work that was too “literal” in another. Art: Abdi Farah?s Bravo TV Prize Is a Brooklyn Museum Show 2010-08-18T22:18:00Z

For believers, it is a guide to life whose every word was handed down directly from God and must therefore be treated as the literal truth. The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones – review 2013-05-04T13:00:01Z

The movie ends with the whole town rallying to celebrate George and douse him with literal buckets of money. Perspective | Mary Bailey is the true hero of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

It’s the extremely literal one: the songs were sad, and Jones needed a hand getting up. Pick me up off the floor, Norah Jones asks on her new album 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

As particular series, and television over all, became the subjects of widespread public discussion—discussion in the literal sense, of writers and viewers responding to each other—that discussion became news. Why Movies Still Matter 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

It’s an intriguing, romantic bit of poetry, more literary conceit than literal fact. ‘Entering Burn Area’: Yosemite After the Fire 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

In the overly literal and soggily sentimental “One Small Step” — one of three here on the Oscar shortlist — a Chinese-American shoemaker selflessly supports his daughter’s dream of becoming an astronaut. ‘The 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Charming, Safe Collection 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

On the other hand, this view may be too literal minded. T Magazine: Waste Not, Want It 2011-09-29T22:07:11Z

So when Emma Boettcher triumphed over the most dominant contestant ever, it was both a tremendous win for propriety — the librarian topples the gambler! — and a crushing end to a literal game-changing era. The Best TV Episodes of 2019 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Indeed, Kate’s influence will be felt on the runways on Thursday when New York Fashion Week begins, if not in any literal sense, then surely as a state of mind. New York Fashion Week: Kate Middleton?s Style Felt on the Runways ? New York Fashion Week 2011-09-07T21:34:15Z

It’s a “superb history of mobility and resistance,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes, in which “the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

It was still an extremely offensive word, however, with a shock value out of proportion to its literal meaning — it led, after all, to murder. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z

Oh no: These were in full swing even when Hannah was in her crunchy-granola preschool, where a philosophy of “nonviolent conflict resolution” backfired and spawned a literal axis of four-year-old evil. Mommy has anger issues! My daughters are pre-adolescent, I’m pre-menopausal 2014-05-10T23:00:00Z

Her paintings combine a distinctly urban jangle with a slightly tawdry, rather literal inner light, while deftly sampling abstract strategies that range from Frank Stella’s stripe paintings through lyrical abstraction to graffiti art. Art in Review: KELTIE FERRIS: KF + CM 4EVER 2010-12-23T22:15:17Z

There's a literal barricade in place during the festival that keeps the town free of all but essential traffic, so the pristine 19th century main street becomes an extension of the festival site itself. My love affair with the American bluegrass festival 2013-07-17T12:00:03Z

If the movie surmounts its genericism, it’s largely because of the actors and a love in which the monstrous has been made literal, and violent delights don’t necessarily lead to violent ends. Movie Review: ‘Warm Bodies,’ Written and Directed by Jonathan Levine 2013-01-31T22:50:15Z

In Liman’s overly literal view, Cage comes off as blandly unaffected by his miraculous experience; the marvel of multiple lives is reduced to a variety of basic training.—R.B. Movies 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

That book, Ms. Morrison’s first to feature a male protagonist, centers on the journey, literal and spiritual, of a young Michigan man, Macon Dead III. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

When speaking about her own experiences, however, Lyonne is inclined to be more literal: “I was definitely as good as dead, you know?” she told Entertainment Weekly. Stuck on repeat: what is Netflix’s Russian Doll actually about? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z

After that I kept the news in the figurative bottle for the next four years until my problems with the literal bottle forced me into rehab and a step farther out of the HIV closet. “No one will ever have sex with me again”: Why I stayed in the closet about my HIV 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

It’s tempting to imagine this material realized with the maniac verve of a film like James Wan’s “Malignant,” where the ridiculous verges on camp, instead of how Salky plays it: thuddingly literal and painfully dumb. ‘Intrusion’ Review: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

The pews — “the movie seats” — would be equipped with hidden buzzers to “give them a literal shock” as they sat down, she explained. John Waters, an Auteur of Trash, Would Like to Thank the Academy 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Reports suggest the studio might have opted to show us more of Vader than we have ever seen before, but only in a literal sense. The six key questions Rogue One: A Star Wars Story must answer 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

“Trail” is the operative word for these travel experiences, many of whose authors followed in the literal path of writers, artists and others who passed this way before them. These Authors Follow in the Footsteps of Earlier Travelers, Literally 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Instead, more literal sartorial messaging seems to be in style. Fashioning Protest for the Women’s March on Washington 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Working from a literal translation of the Bergman screenplay by Wendy Weckwerth, Mr. Woodruff takes few liberties in adapting the material. | 'Autumn Sonata': A Fraught Mother-Daughter Drama 2011-04-28T22:18:19Z

This is true, in the literal sense and in the spirit of majority rule. This Land Is His Land 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Her audience supports her only in the literal sense; they hold her up as she stumbles off the stage at times, as well as lending her smokes and, for a while, holding her full-to-the-brim drink. Review: Audra McDonald's Lady Day on HBO is a Moving Parable of Fame 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Expect gonzo adventure and cutting-edge mathematical ideas, plus a literal million-mile road trip. The best science fiction and fantasy of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Establishing a low-conflict relationship is an hourly, daily, constant process of emotional and literal honesty. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: My boyfriend and I never fight. Is that a problem? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

GTA IV took a literal approach with its violent bank heist mission, “Three Leaf Clover”, which utilized the film’s same suits, weapons, bags of cash, and ensuing consequences. 10 Films We See in the Grand Theft Auto Games 2013-09-24T22:17:56Z

“To let the baby out,” she writes, prefiguring Christle’s riff on decomposition, and also making it painfully literal, “you have to be willing to go to pieces.” “The Crying Book” Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Can’t 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Sunday’s episode was pure soap opera — illicit liaisons, secrets, family betrayal, literal palace intrigue. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: The Full Targaryen 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

Shadiest moment The lights going out, plunging the queens into literal shade. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode 12 – what happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

We were sworn to silence for another 12 hours, the recording itself under literal lock and key. Emily Maitlis: ‘Prince Andrew was unleashed. He wanted to tell me everything’ 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

It was a reminder of one of the more annoying elements of Mr. Lepage’s staging: his penchant for literal illustration every time a character tells a story. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z

“There’s brutality here, but also brilliance — anemones, despite literal brainlessness, adeptly size up their rivals — and astonishing tenderness.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Up the stairs she struts to the moral and literal highground of the balcony, managing somehow to resist doing air kisses. The Hard Sell: Lancôme 2012-10-05T23:05:15Z

A Knife at the Throat To Say ‘I Love You’ What violent thoughts and deeds George and Martha sublimate into daggered words, Elizabeth and Tom kick out into the open and the literal. Theater Review: ‘Skin Tight’ by Gary Henderson at 59E59 Theaters 2012-11-22T21:31:15Z

“His literal words were, ‘No doctor in their right mind would ever release you.’” The cowboy code: Bonner Bolton on being the model all-American man 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

It was finally the literal opportunity to confront my past. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z

Outside of its most literal sense, when people talk about "drowning," it can mean a lot of things. How to make dinner while drowning 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

They debuted the app in May 2016, calling it EatOkra in a nod to their Southern heritage and the ingredient's literal and symbolic role as a binding agent and connector of Black Americans. EatOkra aims to be the next Amazon for Black-owned food businesses 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

Your literal arm goes inside, to excavate and install. Turkey: The One Essential Guest 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

The butt, occasionally in a literal sense, of many of the jokes is Wahlberg. 'Ted': Bear comes to life, stuffed with bad behavior 2012-06-27T21:39:04Z

She describes nursing a broken heart as a literal “aching in your chest,” but Jackson turned her pain into art. Paris Jackson excited and nervous on eve of debut solo album 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Jase Clark’s prints achieve metaphorical and literal depth, in part by overlapping images on layers of clear plastic. Review | In the galleries: At U-Md. space, “UN/Sustainable” contemplates the environment 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

She rejected more than a dozen video treatments because they were too sincere or literal. How Carly Rae Jepsen Got the Coolest People in Music to Work on Her New Album 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Some of it feels a little bit like a pantomime, though not in the literal sense—more like a conversation in which you can’t quite make out the words. Dancing to Robert Walser 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Understandably, it is a work that proclaims a somewhat literal message of conflict and nationalistic fervor. Too few hands applaud Gerard Schwarz's powerful return 2012-04-27T17:03:04Z

But what the bananas signified was, unfortunately, all too literal. Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin?s Comeback 2011-07-03T05:30:29Z

Her first single, “Stuck on Repeat,” was clever in its unavoidably literal rhythmic patterns, which were either intentional or the product of a horse at the production desk. Pop & Rock Listings for July 17-23 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

“Don’t get all judgy, Doc,” Charleston says breezily, on the year anniversary of her fiance’s murder in a terrorist attack, right after a literal flashback. NBC’s frankenshow: “State Of Affairs” borrows heavily from every other show on TV 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

Among them is Anna Friel's executive accountant, a woman with a shoe habit that – thanks to Elba's inventive direction – makes her wardrobe a literal battle zone. Have you been watching … Playhouse Presents? 2013-05-23T10:56:37Z

Back then, the look was quite literal, marked by a casual, affordable assembly of mismatched Moroccan lanterns, patchwork quilts and mattresses placed cozily on top of layered varicolored rugs. A small word of advice on boho’s big revival: Use restraint 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

With “The Problem,” appearing every other Thursday on Apple TV+, this is no longer true, and not just in the literal sense that on streaming TV there are no lead-ins. Review: How Do You Solve ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Boxing movies work because they’re so literal: the boxer gets knocked down, he gets back up again, he knocks the other guy down. A Comeback King Fights His Way Back Into the Ring 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

But there is nothing literal or specific shown on stage, where only brightly striped curtains hung on its three sides might suggest a Latino exuberance. Review: Maguy Marin’s ‘Les Applaudissements’ at Paris Opera Ballet 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Once inside North Korea, Skylark and Rapaport decide to combat Kim not with the literal poison that the C.I.A. has provided but with their own skills—the power of the poison press. How “The Interview” Handled the Assassination of Kim Jong-Un 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

New Yorker cartoons are funnier with literal captions. Internet picks of the week 2011-01-29T00:06:13Z

Members of this community, who believe the Bible to be literal truth, campaigned vigorously to keep J.K. What do protests about Harry Potter books teach us? 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

But millions of fans would — or at least want to watch him and the half-dozen or so other regular cast members endure, in fact enjoy, literal s___storms of calculated abuse, pranks and humiliation. Jackass 3D: Now You Get Sprayed 2010-10-15T17:10:00Z

But it lacks one thing that defines most great TV dramas: the clear sense that it is about an idea, or ideas, beyond its literal subject. Boardwalk Empire Watch: I Confess 2011-10-31T12:28:30Z

There were no literal depictions, however; the dancers’ moves arose from Naharin’s celebrated Gaga movement language, a way of eliciting gestures and shapes from a deep, listening awareness of the body. Batsheva Dance Company’s ‘Sadeh21’: Full force, empty spectacle

Highlights and high points: At an elevation of 7,486 feet, Sulphur Mountain was the literal high point of our vacation. An elevating family trip to the Canadian Rockies 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The greater problem is that Murphy’s production is overly literal, hewing to realism when the script seems to suggest something more abstract. Review: ‘Belfast Girls’ Set Sail, but This Isn’t a Pleasure Cruise 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

And there’s a lot of nakedness, both literal and figurative. Naked and Afraid 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

For Beatles fans — long used to scouring bootleg releases for these snapshots of the Fab Four’s creative process — the "Sgt. Pepper" bonanza was literal music to their ears. The Beatles’ new remixed White Album box set is a marvel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Rory is handed the literal keys to a newspaper, and she doesn’t much care at all. Watched All of the ‘Gilmore Girls’ Revival? Let’s Talk About It 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

He is also a literal rock star, with a music career predating his life as a literary phenom. Revenge and corruption plays a part in Jo Nesbo's thriller 'The Son' 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

“You’re never paying attention to the right things. Basic social engagement is really a struggle. I’m very literal. People talk to me and they use expressions and sometimes I don’t know what they’re saying.” Jerry Seinfeld to Brian Williams: 'I Think I'm on the [Autism] Spectrum' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

This type of Christian, holding to a literal interpretation of the creation story and the rest of the Bible, might be expected to be camera shy, since these beliefs are so often mocked. Television Review: In ‘Questioning Darwin,’ No Easy Answers 2014-02-09T20:21:21Z

The track itself is Typical System’s literal safety net; it’s such an easily digestible track, perfect for your “typical” indie rock, post-punk album — but Total Control are obviously not interested in “typical.” REVIEW: Total Control's Post-Punk Typical System Anything but Typical 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

Though the literal suspension was no problem for Williams–we knew she could sing, and she did, but her wire work was impressively light-as-air. Review: Peter Pan Live! and the Case for Snark 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

But the ideas were suggestive rather than literal. On the Runway Blog: Dior: Letting Loose 2013-07-01T20:50:19Z

Even with its growing fleet, Food Forward couldn’t always accommodate the literal tons of produce in need of rescuing. A new produce warehouse in Los Angeles will prevent millions of pounds of food waste 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

Set in the early decades of the 20th century, in both China’s Guangdong Province and San Francisco, it examines the cost — literal and emotional — of immigration. Review: ‘The Far Country’ Brings a Neglected History Closer 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

Think of it as a new form of literal street style. For the Bike-to-Work Generation, a Move to Fashionable High-Tech Clothing 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

There are many different types of breakup movies: the ones that are actually about breakups in the literal sense and the ones that deal with the different stages of breakups metaphorically. The Best Movies For Getting Over Your Ex 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

The psychological violence of that encounter seemed almost like a replay of the literal violence it was meant to investigate. Review: The Ghosts of Michael Brown, in ‘Until the Flood’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

As Gavigan says: "A literal approach to history and historical characters will miss the audience. A more dramatic, genre-driven approach is now the norm." Holy-wood: the film industry's new passion for Christ 2012-08-24T16:46:55Z

A literal interpretation of the album’s oblique title, the image depicts a hallway lined with exotic exits. Robert Beatty has become a one-man industry of psychedelic album art 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

“As I researched the subject, I realized I wanted to take this figurative idea that slavery is still with us, and make it literal.” In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

It is a reminder of the power film has to blur, or even render moot, the boundary between the literal and the artificial. Critic?s Notebook: New York Film Festival Includes a Sneak Preview 2011-10-09T22:05:10Z

The partners denied that they were purposefully aiming at such a literal reference. New Ways to Take a Seat at Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

In this scene, which takes place in a garden, the knowledge is very literal. Clare Sestanovich on Desire and the Dangers of Metaphor 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

When a plot turn plunges the theater into abject darkness late in the play, it only gives literal life to what you’ve been feeling all along. Review: Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

You’ll be fine, help yourself to my glove box, Ray said, not realizing Paul was being totally literal. 'True Detective' Recap: Big Auras and Slow SUVs 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

I always thought that if I was on it, I’d be very tempted to go for a very literal take on being on a desert island — Caribbean stuff. Laura Donnelly’s Week: ‘Dora the Explorer’ and a Poetry Prescription 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

His movies are incredibly sophisticated in almost every respect, but there’s something about the way he handles human psychology that feels a bit too simple or literal to me. I Admit It: I Don’t Really Like Christopher Nolan’s Movies All That Much 2012-07-18T11:59:44Z

Here the translations can be as literal or free as the translator wants. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

It will, in any case, reward literal moviegoers, those hardy souls willing to switch off the flat screen, silence the cellphone and sit quietly in a roomful of strangers. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

His buildings of the 1970s and 80s are, in the literal sense of the word, spectacular. Richard Rogers at 80: principles and power 2013-07-20T07:00:20Z

That doesn’t stop Ms. Buffini from merrily pretending that this exchange occurred for the purposes of comedy and, possibly, for a larger truth than literal history might provide. London Theater Journal: Mind Games 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

He could take one last stab at counseling the seemingly now-mad queen, or maybe use his proximity to her to attempt a literal last stab and sacrifice himself to save the realm. Fire, ice and fate: Endgames arrive for ‘Game of Thrones’ 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

But by leaving the poison inside James, I wanted to encourage more complex readings than simply the most literal. Greg Jackson on the Dialogue Between Myth and Reality 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

The effect of the literal trains and the physical doors is to revivify concepts that are so much a part of popular consciousness that they have become abstract, almost generic. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

“It might be something more graphic or something really literal. People ask us about color all the time, and we say, ‘If it works in your garden, it works in your house.’ Shopping with the pros: The Madcap Cottage team chooses favorites from Terrain 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Breathtaking in both the literal and figurative sense, these works require the lung capacity of an Olympian marathoner with the elocutionary finesse of Shaw’s Professor Henry Higgins. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Shaw's 'Saint Joan': A marathon for four actors, and the audience 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

A literal meditation, it underscores how consumerist greed led to the tragedy then, and to the vast trouble we’re in now. A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

In his most striking pieces, the literal and the metaphorical fuse seamlessly. 3 don’t-miss gallery shows around Seattle, May edition 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

That a literal reading of the Bible was folly?” Why does the left wing ignore atheists? 2012-08-08T13:36:00Z

In February, she released “Formation,” a celebration of her black Southern heritage, with a video that invoked the Black Lives Matter movement — “Stop Shooting Us” read the literal writing on the wall. Beyoncé, Prompted by Shootings, Finds a More Forceful Voice 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

“New Apartment,” on the other hand, treats an unfurnished home as not only a sign of self-sufficiency, but literal space for new possibilities. Ari Lennox is R&B’s next star. Ask anyone (except her). 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

Baratte also discovers, after a literal knock on the head, that his ideas and ideals aren’t of much use to him. Books of The Times: ‘Pure,’ a New Novel by Andrew Miller 2012-07-03T21:48:27Z

The play’s characters – portrayed by a cast that includes Laurie Metcalf and David Suchet – may be trying to hide from themselves in the literal and metaphoric fog that enshrouds their home. ArtsBeat: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' in London 2012-06-15T16:21:52Z

By comparison, Florida Georgia Line is a literal breeze, with songs that land like feathers. Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line Have New Albums 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

But it wouldn’t do to read too literal a meaning into these works. Barbara Earl Thomas’ linocuts blend the surreal with the lyrical 2013-04-11T20:55:53Z

After repeatedly assuring his audience that he was being entirely literal, Mr. Hicks added: “I know what you marketing people are thinking: ‘Very smart. Bill Hicks, Revived on Video to Jar Viewers Out of Apathy 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

Love's paranoias and insecurities, which drive her to commit literal murder, revolve around the question of whether Joe spared her life as the woman he loves or as the "host" of their then-unborn child. Netflix's serial killer thriller "You" poses a pregnant question about personhood 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

At the time, Black people were in a very literal and ultimately existential fight for autonomy of their bodies and souls. Nichelle Nichols Helped Show America a Different Future 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

The philosophy was going to pay off in the most literal and direct way; it was going to do what it said on the tin, and bring the materialists their material reward. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z

At his least artful moments, Mr. Weinstein’s stories are too literal, and his moral takeaways, too obvious. Review: ‘Children of the New World’ Sees a Future of Bespoke Memories and More 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

I hope that name is literal: Some of the streaming should happen only at night, and only once. When a Film Festival Goes Virtual, What Do We Lose? Or Gain? 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

The ocean, the exhibition reminds us, became in Shakespeare’s plays both “a literal setting and metaphor for instability.” Exhibition Review: At the Folger, a 200-Year Survey of the Sea 2010-08-18T18:21:00Z

Her airy, timeless and elegant album is perhaps a literal “au revoir,” as in “see you again soon,” to life and loved ones. Françoise Hardy, a French National Treasure, Is Back from the Brink 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Though I wouldn’t expect Mr. Jacobs to interpret Mr. Fosse’s world in a literal way, I couldn’t see what the connections were. Fashion Review: Calvin Klein, L?Wren Scott, Marc Jacobs - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-16T22:55:30Z

"You can't even see the pathways," she says, surrounded by the literal fruits of her labors. Is farming with reclaimed water the solution to a drier future? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

And so he turned to perhaps the most literal source of authority: Shakespeare’s own pen. Further Proof of Shakespeare’s Hand in ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ 2013-08-13T02:49:45Z

A few literal links will remain, including the market salad, and Cosecha favorites like Mole Mondays and duck carnitas — which will feature on the opening café menu on Bombera's back patio. At Bombera, Oakland’s Chicano cooking heritage is the future  2021-04-10T04:00:00Z

And she translates it into literal, bodily nakedness in her late work, much of which is a form of self-portraiture. She Turned Her Audacious Lens on Herself, and Shaped the Future 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

This view, however, clashes with the view of those for whom the Quran is the literal word of God. Why “The Satanic Verses” remains so controversial 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

Williams seems awkwardly trapped between a need to turn his words into metaphor and a desire to retain some element of literal content. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z

"Inhuman" has become a term of abuse in the arts, so perhaps now is the moment to remind ourselves of its literal meaning. Eilliott Carter: music of storms and stillness 2013-06-07T08:00:27Z

Ruskin's descriptions of the art he admired urged imitation, but not of a literal sort. Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Birds of a more literal kind played their own part in the tour’s problems, with a whole flock in aerial formation causing havoc at a concert in a stadium. Trans-Atlantic Love Affair for the London Symphony Orchestra 2012-10-21T04:40:05Z

She seems gifted in the literal, God-fearing sense. Jackie Evancho and the Politics of Childhood 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

The hosts began as literal characters in a narrative, their personalities malleable, their memories erasable. Review: ‘Westworld’ Gets a Partial Upgrade for Season 2 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Somehow the Jekyll and Hyde metaphors come across as both too literal and too abstract to really work. Gothic feel but murky focus for Mammals' 'Dream Journal' 2011-03-08T17:11:00Z

He started with literal translations from the original language, and then worked from there. After ‘Parasite,’ Are Subtitles Still a One-Inch Barrier for Americans? 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

From there, it races through attempts to contain the fallout, both literal and political, and reveals the human cost of what happened and the sacrifices that were made. Feel-bad TV: why are we obsessed with small-screen tragedy? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

When my children walk out of the door, I feel like a literal part of my self is out there—a part of my self more important than the part I am. Tiphanie Yanique on the Necessity of the Spirit 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Now there's a video for the song, and it's no less cheerfully literal. Watch: Katy Perry does it like that in video for 'This Is How We Do' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The same is true of the recent remix of Wale’s “Clappers,” in which Young Thug’s dreamy exultations serve as a soothing coda to the song’s literal desire. Critic’s Notebook: Young Thug’s ‘Black Portland’ Extends His Reputation 2014-02-05T21:42:57Z

Director Benjamin Heisenberg keeps any literal interpretation of his behavior at a fascinating remove. 'The Robber': Crime flick captures a runner's ? and robber's ? high 2011-05-05T23:56:14Z

So I scurried from what was once my room into what was once my bathroom to open a literal junk drawer. “I should be among the dead”: Young, white, and economically advantaged, I was hungry for meaning and found heroin instead 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Sleeping Dogs is just the first game to be so literal about it. Video Game Review: Sleeping Dogs, by United Front Games 2012-08-14T00:00:24Z

Some courses have literal end zones you simply have to touch to win. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Is a Strategy Masterpiece 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

By replacing a typical audience with her original one, she breathes life into a cliché by making it literal and creates a compelling dynamic that is as eccentric as her singularly funny comedy. Critic’s Notebook: Maria Bamford’s ‘Special Special Special!’ Online 2012-12-17T05:09:03Z

I'm Not There isn't particularly literal about anything, but it does show Dylan dying after the accident, which in literal terms at least he did not. Dylan biopic I'm Not There: a ragtag and Bob tale 2012-12-05T13:57:00Z

The sense of human passivity takes literal form in the first act, which may feature the longest buildup to a star entrance in musicals. Theater Review: ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Opens in London 2013-06-26T16:33:57Z

But its methods are almost defiantly literal, engineered for accessibility and sentimental impact. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Was that a literal nuance or just a taste of his sardonic humor? Hippies, radicals, pranksters: Jerry Rubin has a bio and Paul Krassner has our review 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Portraiture is the art of the literal, of documentation. De Kooning exhibit highlights tension between portraiture, abstraction 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Teenage comedies and dramas are almost always about overcoming something: bullying and the aftermath of suicide in “13 Reasons,” literal and psychological demons in “Stranger Things,” the ever-popular broken families in “Everything Sucks.” On Netflix, a Growing Wave of Shows for and About Teenagers 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

And given "Guardians' " success, it will no doubt continue down that path, with literal sequels and plenty of spiritual heirs to follow. Good fun is now a key plot point 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Your anxiety then becomes their anxiety, in a way that’s very literal in this movie. Steven Soderbergh and Amy Seimetz Made the Pandemic Movies of the Moment 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Four Mile Run, Arlington: A literal hot spot for fly-fishing, the water treatment plant here churns out warm water, where largemouth bass, carp, bluegill and redbreast sunfish will congregate. Perspective | Fishing for winter fun? 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

In an industry stifled by a high purchase tax that would not be lessened until 1960, design was dominated by ladylike and literal diamond-encrusted flowers and animals. Andrew Grima’s Work Returns to the Spotlight 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

In fact, Braquo seems to push at the very limits of TV violence: the opener to season two managed to include a literal blood bath – a corpse found in a spattered bathroom. Your next box set: Braquo 2012-06-14T15:00:01Z

Yanking the picture off the wall expands its literal and metaphorical dimensions. Review | In the galleries: An exhibition that draws attention to overlooked issues 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kline’s own probing video interviews with a politically conscious waitress at a Baltimore Applebee’s and a checked-out bartender in the same city seem the most literal. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

I was so excited about the prospect of alternating story lines–two parallel journeys to hell, figurative and literal–and I described this Watson-and-Crick vision of a helical structure to you, in great detail. Karen Russell interviews Kent Russell: “I was firmly in the throes of male adolescence’s hurtful apathy” 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

What Spoerri has done is to find a more literal, graphic and yet haunting way to remember the reality of life through its remnants. Unearthed ? artist Daniel Spoerri's banquet from 1983 2010-06-07T19:00:00Z

Still, they couldn't compete with R Kelly, whose showmanship reached new literal heights when he began his performance on a crane high above the Which Stage. Bonnaroo: Paul McCartney rules 2013-06-18T14:39:13Z

He avoided literal representation, because he said he couldn’t really draw well. Remembering Roy Kuhlman 2012-07-09T00:00:00Z

It’s too literal, too much like a diorama of the world’s religions. Dance Review: Sean Curran Company at the Joyce Theater 2013-02-01T22:53:53Z

They are powerfully flat, more literal than abstract. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Sís draws young Nicky as a fencer suited up like the figurative and literal knight he would become, and sets him inside an oval ring — a familiar Síssian motif. A Captivating New Picture Book Celebrates the ‘British Schindler’ 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Directed at the fluttering pace of an anxious heartbeat, this production for Mr. Donnellan’s Cheek by Jowl company dispenses with literal scenery and even props in unfolding the story of Macbeth’s headlong slide into corruption. | 'Macbeth': Ambition Doth Curse All Makes of Men 2011-04-06T21:38:26Z

Loach has always liked to make films about camaraderie: the literal representation of the class solidarity so central to his political thinking, and something in desperately short supply in the era of outsourcing and privatisation. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The result is a stew of bikinied babes, venerable character actors and cartoonish kills, culminating in a literal blood bath on the beach. ‘Goat,’ ‘Dope’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

There are some things in there that are absolutely literal and totally personal.” Music: Tracy Bonham?s Bumpy Path From Angst to Bliss 2010-07-09T23:45:00Z

In the former, the narratives are rarely fully literal, alternating between the real and fantasy. School shootings and film shoots: What they do and don’t have in common 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

But never will the crossover be so literal as when “Rocktopia” arrives on Broadway in March. ‘Rocktopia’ and ‘Home for the Holidays’ to Hit Broadway 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

As a person with dwarfism, I am fine with the literal reality of my disability. Three Billboards' portrayal of dwarfism is reductive and ableist, and I would know | Eva Squire 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

As we slept, monsoon-like rains began to fall, much of it collecting around the Village Inn, a more literal low point than we had realized. ?Jersey Shore,? Reality Versus Reality TV 2011-09-09T18:55:00Z

Hess, with his mansion on the Vineyard and his chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce, is a prince and a demon, a lonely, disconnected man even before he becomes a literal monster. Review: ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus,’ Spike Lee’s Vampire Movie 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

“Yesterday” is also a story of the failures of the system—a literal failure of the global grid that results in a colossal blank of cultural memory. “Yesterday,” Reviewed: Danny Boyle’s Comedic Fantasy About a World Without the Beatles 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z

He applied these materials directly to the canvas to create a literal “landscape painting” that meditates on the region’s economic and natural history — and on painting a landscape. Shaun Tan?s Wild Imagination 2011-04-23T04:30:02Z

“They both animate the text and accompany it, but never in a literal way.” He?s the Shade of Martha Graham 2011-03-25T14:24:56Z

Q. You were very literal in actually making this film “in darkness” and working with what little natural light you had. Oscar Nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film Discuss Work 2012-02-20T22:38:12Z

But the relationship between art and social media is a tricky one. The former is about pushing boundaries; the latter, enforcing them — in the case of Instagram, in a literal square.  Social media have become a vital tool for artists — but are they good for art? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Most of Nevada is still the literal Wild West, the stretch between Las Vegas and Reno filled with desolate beauty and scrub cities in all directions. Las Vegas was built by gangsters, and we celebrated those stories 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

It may even make Robbie increasingly vulnerable to this objectification especially as she takes on the role of a literal plastic doll known for her hyper-femininity. Why Margot Robbie is being criticized for her "mid" looks, despite embodying perfect Barbie doll 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

It could hardly be more literal: Its opening lines are “Run for your life/’Til you die.” Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

The other piece that the book drives toward, not just in the literal sense of it being last, is the piece on Terry Pratchett. Neil Gaiman on making art, mistakes and his 'View from the Cheap Seats' 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

But the term is not to be understood in a literal way. Perspective | Miss Manners: How will people learn if I don’t correct them? 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z

“I am so aware of vanishing beauty — I want to reflect on that and bring it back — but not in a literal way,” Mr. Schwab said. Being Aware of Vanishing Beauty 2012-09-17T17:30:29Z

Absurd yet bold, lurid yet a tiny bit touching, “Come to Daddy” drags poor Norval from hopefulness to horror to a wickedly literal form of closure. ‘Come to Daddy’ Review: Father and Son Reunion 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

So one might experience figurative if not literal “Dancing in the Street” when Reeves takes the stage. Don Was leads Detroit revue celebrating Motown milestone 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Everything the actress does is a triumph of artifice – she is like a walking metaphor – while Burnaby is doggedly literal, so that, at some level, their interplay describes opposing efforts to put life into language. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z

But there is also a feeling of the implicit current of menace, for which Pinter became a byword, assuming more literal forms. | 'Being Harold Pinter': Political Theater, Brought to You by the Politically Powerless 2011-01-06T23:29:42Z

Human flesh searches, a literal translation from the Chinese phrasing, are a peculiarly Chinese phenomenon. ‘Caught in the Web,’ on Web Searches in China 2012-09-16T01:30:06Z

He also got into literal battles with local toughs, one of whom left him with a knife wound in his stomach. Obituary: Bob Hoskins 2014-04-30T16:13:14Z

How to honor what felt like an epochal achievement but seems, at the moment, like a historical cul de sac, an act of heroism in a literal and figurative vacuum? Goodnight Moon Landing 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

And yet they seem so human: Preljocaj puts a heartbeat into his abstract interpretations, which only falter a little when a section of jiggles and grinds seems unnecessarily literal. Ballet Preljocaj: Helikopter/Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied) – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-23T16:52:38Z

Then there is the occasion when the clue writer is indicating something rather fanciful or not strictly literal as the cryptic part, such as 'Green paradise? Azed slip No. 2,109 2012-11-25T11:00:00Z

Fern and Vanguard join a rolling, dispersed tribe — a subculture and a literal movement of itinerant Americans and their vehicles, an unsettled nation within the boundaries of the U.S.A. ‘Nomadland’ Review: The Unsettled Americans 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

The imagery is not literal, and often involves curved shapes that could be a rounded hip, an internal organ or something visible only under a microscope. In the galleries: D.C. artist summons the supernatural in the everyday 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Affirmative action does not formally mirror the tools of white supremacy; for Thomas, it is the literal continuation of white supremacy. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

These were standalone morality plays – literal time capsules – that interrogated what it meant to live, work and love in the US during the turbulence of the late 20th century. When good TV goes bad: how Quantum Leap made one leap too far 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

It’s oily and puckered with literal blood, sweat, tears, wine, sunscreen, cheese, ink, cocktails and even rain. While everyone else is decluttering, I’m keeping the books that made me a traveler 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Thirty miles from the main airport, about 11 miles from the literal end of the road and the start of the Na Pali Coast. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: St. Regis Princeville Resort 2012-03-02T23:24:34Z

It just so happens that there is a literal box full of disrupters somewhere in the Louisiana swamps, so Waller arranges to let them out. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Most important for the devotees of Morseiana will be the more literal correspondences among the shows, and the final season does not skimp. ‘Endeavour’ Review: Farewell to the Morse Cinematic Universe 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

At first glance the collection looks too literal, right down to the custom-made riding boots. Special Report: Fashion: Eyes on the Ball 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z

Indeed, he initially appears as a literal shadow. Scandal Puts a Gay Father in Prison. What of His Gay Son, a Generation Later? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Formed by literal Sierra Leonean refugees during that country’s civil war, this group has gone on to tour the world and open for Aerosmith. Your week in Seattle music: Boston, Coheed and Cambria and more 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

On "Thrones," it's all about survival -- literal and figurative. How "Game of Thrones" slew all comers 2011-06-17T18:01:00Z

Gunn, for his part, gently resists the idea that these songs are “about” anything in a literal sense. Music to Forget Yourself With 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Even though their body has been a literal physical incubator for a growing fetus for nine months. Stop speculating and judging whether or not a woman is pregnant 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

Then I thought, “Oh man, maybe she’s being subversive by making literal the kind of objectification that the entire industry, and awards ceremony culture, is premised on.” Sofia Vergara’s spin at the Emmys: A subversive stunt or just a woman on a rotating platform? 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

“A big part of that ensemble work is just literal traffic coordinating,” Miller said. A Decade of Puppets in Organized Chaos 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

“Yeah, let’s not do that again,” Quinn replies, in what was, hopefully, as much of a reminder to writers as her literal partner-in-crime. “Money. D*ck. Power.”: “Unreal” deconstructs fantasies — and asks what TV looks like with women in charge 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

How she chooses to express it, though, can feel overly literal. Will Lizzo Rule the Grammys Like She Owned 2019? 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Coleman’s music isn’t, in the literal sense, dance music; it’s concert music, and people sit and listen to it. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Underpinned by a restless, agitated bassline sampled from Billy Cobham's Stratus, opener Safe from Harm sounds dusky in the most literal sense. Massive Attack: Blue Lines (remastered) – review 2012-12-06T15:29:01Z

The notion of fighting “over there” to protect families “over here” is rendered literal from the start. The Simple Joy and Sincere Wonder of “Furious 7” 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

And when Rachael asks Deckard whether he has ever taken the Voight-Kampff test, she may not be asking about his literal human status, but about his capacity for the empathy that the machine measures. In "Blade Runner," who are the androids and what do they dream of? 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

I'm keen to share this, but rather than tell it through a lecture or literal 'show and tell', I would rather demonstrate it through events offering a collective experience. Arts head: Melanie Abrahams, founder of Tilt and Renaissance one 2013-06-25T10:40:51Z

But all the emoting is crammed into a curiously literal, procedural frame, as if someone had tried to make an opera libretto out of court transcripts. ‘House of Gucci’ Review: Murder, Italian-Style 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

It’s got the tone spot-on, and, as all but the most rabidly literal of comic book fans will tell you, the tone and spirit is really the most important thing for an adaptation to capture. Preacher: is Seth Rogen's new show the best comic book adaptation ever? 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Morphine, “soldier’s joy,” and heroin pop up frequently in Welch’s songwriting, and, like other motifs, feel as much symbolic as literal. Twenty Years of Listening to Gillian Welch 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

“There’s something a little bit perturbing to wearing clothes as literal and clear and unmistakable as Willie’s clothes,” Mr. Yang said. Willie Norris Has Some Words For Us 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Sara and Colby, for all their differences, both live in a world where literal interpretation of the Bible and commitment to the Second Amendment are pillars of behavior and belief. ‘Stop the Pounding Heart’ Reveals Minervini’s Texas 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

While he acknowledges that he and Ellen “will never be completely free of Layla,” he doesn’t mean that in a literal sense. Bears and Poets: Endangered Prey in This Week’s Crime Column 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The man’s opponent was an actual, literal pastor — and still the evangelical Christians didn’t know which one to vote for? Perspective | What in the name of Trump was the Herschel Walker campaign? 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Which is to say, this was a precious, anticipated, frankly anxious affair — the materialization of a beloved and mercurial performer moving from the chimerical to the literal. Jai Paul Emerges, Tentatively, for His First Headlining Concert 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Yet even today, some people still view soul or Southern food through the outdated lens of literal table scraps from white people, or as a lesser cuisine compared to European cultures. The Southern and Low Country pantry ingredients one cook can’t live without 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

There were a few gimmicks, including jewel-encrusted coveralls, which was more jumpsuit than uniform, but still perhaps a little too literal. Cynthia Rowley collection inspired by craftsmen 2012-02-10T03:54:10Z

His style of drawing was straightforward, more literal than suggestive, often depicting well-fed-looking figures in settings — business offices, restaurants, well-furnished apartments — that would ring with familiarity to upper-middle-class sophisticates. Bernard Schoenbaum, 89, New Yorker Cartoonist, Dies 2010-05-18T16:19:00Z

Joyce DiDonato's Elena is a literal museum piece, taken from a display case at the start of the evening and returned to it at the end. La Donna del Lago, Royal Opera House – review 2013-05-20T10:14:00Z

He’s a literal passenger on this white man’s trip. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

We're politely requested to believe that the ninth series of a television programme about some singing teenagers is a spectacle akin to the literal resurrection of Jesus. The X Factor 2012: could Mel B set it back on track? 2012-08-20T11:19:31Z

Her best songs — including “1, 2, Step,” and “Ride” — were often about literal movement, but almost never about what was happening on the inside. Ciara’s ‘Jackie’ Shows a Singer Evolving 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

The first two sides follow the William Blake template, providing literal “songs of innocence” that foreshadow the darkness to come. The Accidental Perfection of the Beatles’ White Album 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

A lot of designers over the years have been influenced by Astaire and other style icons, but usually their stuff is embarrassingly literal. On the Runway Blog: At Men's Fashion Shows, A Mix of Aspiration and Powerful Intrigue 2012-01-20T18:02:42Z

But this is heavy stuff, and the most literal execution of a theme – of the destruction that is left in the Doctor's wake – that continues to fuel the show to this day. Genesis of the Daleks: Doctor Who classic episode #7 2013-05-23T11:52:01Z

And, while that does rather suggest the contestants will be competing against literal wild animals, this isn’t actually the case at all. Ultimate Beastmaster: has Sly Stallone made the sloppiest gameshow yet? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

In Liman’s overly literal view, Cage comes off blandly unaffected by his miraculous experience; the marvel of multiple lives is reduced to a variety of basic training.—R.B. Movies 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

For me, the quest for a breakthrough often requires getting myself into literal motion; one small step for Poincaré but a whole sequence of steps for me. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

At least this isn’t a literal rendering of a shell game. Dance Review: DanceBrazil Presents Premieres at the Joyce Theater 2014-03-13T22:24:55Z

Berry dons a figurative detective’s cap and literal mutton chops in this Victorian spoof, in which he plays a foul-mouthed inspector in 19th-century London. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Chef Show’ and ‘Year of the Rabbit’ 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

And one unifying consensus: The 15 minis at the Pines Cottages are cheek-pinching-cute, even if they push the concept of “close family” to its literal edge. In Asheville, N.C., cheek-pinchingly cute 364-square-foot cottages are a step up from glamping 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The title of the second, longer section, “The Ultimate High Ground,” alludes to both the literal heights of space and the moral high ground that questions war as a means to peace. Neil deGrasse Tyson Explores the Symbiosis Between War and Astrophysics 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

The new series, which sees the contestants throwing figurative – and literal – punches at one another and their chaperones while being instructed in "refainment" is essentially My Fair Lady meets Bad Girls. Ladette To Lady needs to forget some of its reality TV etiquette 2010-07-21T12:28:00Z

The Rev. Jamison, a literal and figurative punching bag of the show’s writers, gets a medical reprieve minutes before a car accident sends his devoted wife into a coma. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Looking Back 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

To do so requires leaving the marked trail and watching the literal lay of the land. How Walking Changes Us 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

I feel like my literal existence hurts people, like I’m always taking up space that should belong to someone else. How Can I Cure My White Guilt? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

What if that chemistry wasn’t just feeling the zsa-zsa-zsu but a literal description of the underlying amoral mechanism driving sexual attraction? The science of swooning: We don’t really know why some kisses lead to back kicks, toe curls and weak knees 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

For the collection has an interesting lesson about "bigness" — to have a life, the weight must be more figurative than literal, as what is more enormous than our eventual forever, the infinite postmortem. Ghosts soar in William Vollmann's hefty 'Last Stories' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Guth’s literal spin, which plays organically to the libretto and music rather than as an artificial concept, adds both a new urgency and an unexpected tenderness. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Staged by Claus Guth at Staatsoper in Berlin 2012-07-08T19:24:24Z

“Labyrinth” is too plodding and literal to rise to the level of camp, which could have saved it. ‘Labyrinth,’ Set in 13th and 21st Centuries 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Whitehead’s time-hopping novel imagines the Underground Railroad as a literal mode of transportation. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Allen’s literal voice, which supplies narration, sounds unusually sluggish and weary. Review: In ‘Café Society,’ Rearranging Old Preoccupations 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Rice gave Nosferatu a modern makeover, imagining vampires as literal rock stars. 11 facts about Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

The worst that can happen — a baby who goes to sleep and doesn’t wake up — is the literal, absolute worst thing that could ever happen. Perspective | The Boppy recall is a reminder that there are no easy answers to baby sleep 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Kalman’s pairings range from the hilariously literal to the nearly abstract. Maira Kalman’s Irreverent Pictures for the Grammar Bible 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

A year later, the Times critic Harold C. Schonberg wrote, of a concert with the National Orchestra of Belgium at Carnegie Hall, that his Mahler “was almost painfully literal.” His Conducting Wasn’t Always Pleasant. But It Was the Truth. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

But the literal train heist at the beginning and the vault heist through the streets foreshadow the level of crime crew cooperation and mid-action ridiculousness that will take place in the films to come. Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

In the end, though the feast’s vibe is lifted from in the book, he said, “it’s not as literal as what we ended up with.” ‘Miss Peregrine’ and Tim Burton: The Making of a Film Fable 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

That said, I did not expect anything quite so literal as a team performance of “So Long, Farewell.” ‘Ted Lasso’ Season Finale Recap: Family 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wilson takes this advice to its literal extremes, with the caveat that he doesn’t do dirty. Review: ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ a Melancholy Tone Poem 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

The camera may record astounding events or reveal shocking truths, but always within the context of the ordinary, the literal, the real. Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z

As Collins explains, “What I actually love the most are literal clues that somehow still trick you.” How Crosswords Put Your Brain Into Hyperdrive 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

But each choreographer rose to the challenge with striking intelligence, revealing a wide range of resources while almost never attempting a literal step-for-note response. Dance Review: Take Unusual Music, Mix Contrasting Movements, Stir Well 2011-03-01T22:40:58Z

But for the participants in this particular rendering of Shakespeare’s great valedictory romance, the concept takes on a more literal meaning. Review: In ‘The Tempest,’ Liberation and Exhilaration 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Contrary to the pastoral, if unforgiving, landscapes that generally define the show, on Sunday “The Walking Dead” was all about interiors, literal and metaphorical. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 13: Carol the Killer 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

This little town is home to Pat’s Waterfront, a legendary eatery on the literal edge of the great Atchafalaya spillway and Lake Bigeaux Swamp. Waffle House to commit culinary crime with 'fanciest' location in New Orleans 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

While the male Hillary is portrayed sympathetically, the script, written by Glenn Berenbeim, is scathing about both parties and the media, painting the Presidential race as a literal circus. When Hillary Was a Black Man 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Crystal Fighters are launching their new album Cave Rave in the most literal sense – by holding a rave, in a cave. Crystal Fighters to hold rave in cave 2013-05-14T11:10:59Z

The movie cuts between present-day Jennifer and childhood Jennifer, and the two are often in literal conversation, with young Jenny staring into the camera or into the mirror and talking directly to her adult self. Speak, Memory: The Haunting Memoir of ‘The Tale’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Such literal translation of past into present, and one location into another, becomes the main event in this show. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Stratford-Upon-Avon Edition 2011-07-22T21:16:12Z

The title of Miller’s book is both literal and ironic. Nearly 20 Million Americans Have a Felony Record. What Happens After They’ve Served Their Time? 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

For another, that artworks have literal, direct and easily predictable effects. The Zero Dark Thirty Argument: Why Deceptive Art Can Be Great 2012-12-11T16:10:11Z

It introduces us to Bob Bunting, an infantile loner who escapes, in very literal fashion, into the fictional worlds of Luke Short, Raymond Chandler and Leo Tolstoy. ‘Interior Darkness’ for those who love horror — and even those who don’t 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

The truth of this observation is borne out in various ways, some of them bluntly literal. ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: Black Lives Mattered in Vietnam, Too 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

And some purely literal titles work almost too well: the great "Snakes on a Plane" being perhaps the ultimate example, or "The Men Who Stare at Goats," or the upcoming "Hot Tub Time Machine." Movie titles: What's in a name? 2010-03-17T17:07:00Z

He was being literal — it was once the running track Nike used to measure athletes’ performance and its relationship to what they wore — but the other meaning of the word did not escape him. At Nike, Extending the Track to the Runway 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Interestingly, the art made by the show’s younger artists, Ms. Ahamadi and Mr. Pouyan, while far more political in a literal sense, is much lighter and less personal in tone. Six Artists From Iran at Grey Art Gallery 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

I started to question the literal interpretations of the Bible that I was taught in church. My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

The plot, "gripping though waywardly pursued" reckoned Toby Litt in the New Statesman, "is that the speech of children becomes a plague to their parents", that is, a literal sickness. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-07-20T21:55:09Z

In this episode "gay panic" is shown as a literal rash . "AHS: NYC" has too many villains 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Their literal interpretations of adult ideas lead to quite the misadventures and mishaps along the way. Kids save the day in 'What We Did on Our Holiday' 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

He raps in literal circles, alighting on cadences and abandoning them just as quickly. Critic’s Notebook: Ratking’s EP ‘Wiki93’ Is Thoroughly New York 2012-11-06T22:30:05Z

Black Friday has long been the literal worst. Black Friday is the worst: Shopping is ruining Thanksgiving — but at least one retailer is pushing back 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

But we had burned out in the almost literal sense, and the ferry, with its gentle gusts on serene waters, beckoned us home. No Subway. No Buses. No Uber. No Problem. 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

This week's topic is songs with sound effects – songs that find room to illustrate what it is they're on about in the most literal way possible for something that only exists in your ears. Readers recommend: Songs with sound effects 2010-03-19T00:02:00Z

Their children keep wailing from another room — literal reminders of failure, starvation, sickness, familial despair. The guilty pleasures of DIY’s ‘Renovation Realities’

To hold so much power and face any amount of accountability is intolerable, or, in his own words, a literal "boycott." Johnny Depp isn’t being boycotted — he’s a powerful man with options 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

According to Mr. Zemaitis, R & Company encouraged Mr. Swing to push beyond the “literal representation of money” and focus even more on “the beauty of his sculptural forms.” Newly Minted Work by a Change Artist 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

At other points, she took an overly literal interpretation of the score. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Guest Challenges Common Wisdom 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

It includes a coach who can't keep his shoes tied and an angry lunch lady who ends her outbursts with "Namaste," and a bully with "a built-in rewards program" with a literal punch card. Kids in control of environment in Amazon Studios' new pilots 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

I began writing it when he was in the hospital, on his literal deathbed. Daniel Clowes: 'Trump's America is like the cynical comics I drew back in the 90s' 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

I think, wondering if it requires tails and a bow tie, or if a literal black tie will be OK. My Baftas adventure: Dev Patel, liquid diabetes and clapping injuries 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

The theme we were given was “Diving Into the Wreck,” by Adrienne Rich; I capitulated to the literal. Lauren Groff on the Animal Ecstasy of Athletics 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Arcade Fire lose out on the irony that made the song tick, opting for a war machine of a cover that’s too literal to hold nuance. Bon Iver, Feist, Arcade Fire — and More — Cover Peter Gabriel 2014-01-06T17:26:36Z

Samuel Adams’s beer evokes citrus but not in the literal, tastes-like-juice way that is the New England style; it’s scarcely different from an ordinary I.P.A. Two Big Brewers Try to Cash In on an I.P.A. Craze 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Both titles boldly underline the metaphorical significance of the film’s literal journey — a road-trip from Munich to the Mediterranean by way of the Swiss Alps. | 'Vincent Wants to Sea': A Mission to See 2011-06-26T22:57:21Z

A literal book strictly outlined "what good-looking looks like." 6 shocking revelations from Netflix's new Abercrombie & Fitch doc 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

There is a literal veil — a big piece of silk tossed like a parachute or the handkerchief of a giant magician. Review: Christopher Wheeldon Creates a Memorable Realm 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

We already know Donald Trump represents the triumph of the literal. What Donald Trump’s butler saw: behind the scenes of a real-life Xanadu 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. White’s mergers can be literal: “Will You Love Me,” for example, incorporates parts of Jimmy Cliff’s “Many Rivers to Cross.” Playlist : New CDs: Josh Berman, Guardian Alien, Rodrigo Campos 2012-08-17T19:49:57Z

“The Chaperone” is about a woman who abandons her literal and figurative corsets and discovers her bliss. ‘The Chaperone’ Review: A Matron and a Movie Star Take a Jazz-Age Journey 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

The flashbacks to Clarice’s childhood, particularly the death of her father, are so literal and direct that they’re almost silly and are emblematic of the show’s general aversion to nuance. Review: ‘Clarice’ Is More CBS Cop Show Than ‘Hannibal’ 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

It’s too literal, too direct, too steeped in religious ceremony and too complex for a historically amnesiac culture. Has Sculpture Become Just Another Pretty Face? 2011-08-09T17:39:27Z

He was poor only in the most literal sense, and few have given as generously to American film culture. Movie Review: ‘Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man,’ by Jonas Mekas 2013-04-24T22:04:27Z

Despite its sci-fi-ish rock-monster angels that do not feel much like something out of Genesis, the movie is in a sense too literal, too polemical to appeal to either faith-based or mainstream audiences. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

And much of this is the fault of evangelicals themselves, with what is too often an all-or-nothing approach to, say, the literal interpretation of the Bible, narrowly defined moral absolutes, a deep-seated anti-intellectual prejudice. My body was going nuts: How I thought about sex as a teenage evangelical virgin 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

Lunchtime in the City, and a pop-up with a difference: Pestaurant, run by Britain's best-known extermination brand, which aims to interpret the popularity of street food in its most literal sense. Grub's up: maggots and crickets on menu at Britain's first 'pestaurant' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

At one point an interviewer asks about how literal Cobain was being when he wrote the song “I Hate Myself and Want To Die,” and his silent response is both funny and spine-chilling. 'Montage of Heck': A sympathetic look at the life of Kurt Cobain 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Of course, there are two kinds of answers to that question — the literal and the structural. How Businesses Became People 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

I’ve seen some stunning places but breathtaking has never been a literal description until this moment. Vanuatu's Espiritu Santo, where paradise is a leaky canoe without a paddle 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

There’s a male stripper—make that two male strippers, at least in the literal sense that two brawny guys end up stripping down. Review: Rough Night Exposes the Threadbare Downside of the Women-Cutting-Loose Genre 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Some of the submissions are literal interpretations of the song’s lyrics, while others have nothing to do with them—one fan dances around in a pink dinosaur onesie, another plays around on some railroad tracks. Matt and Kim Fans Get Creative in New 'Can You Blame Me' Video 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

I know that the story will be reshaped, that things will become more concrete and less literal, the silence of the book will become music. Raven Girl takes wing and flies onstage 2013-05-04T06:00:35Z

In a program note Mr. Olmos says his play is “not meant to be a literal telling of her story,” but rather “a poetic impression of what Marisol did for her country.” Theater Review: Matthew Paul Olmos’s ‘so go the ghosts of méxico, part one’ 2013-04-21T22:02:42Z

Back in the day Ms. LuPone was often mocked for her mushy diction, so an enterprising fan has provided a literal translation of what he hears her singing. Theater Talkback: Charles Isherwood on His Favorite Tony Performances 2012-06-07T20:15:02Z

Whether you consider it shockingly wrong-headed or startlingly ahead of its time, the song was a fitting capstone — perhaps a bit too literal, if anything? — for a tense episode with strange overtones of violence. ArtsBeat: 'Mad Men' Watch: A Fever Dream and Spooky Reality 2012-04-09T05:24:14Z

Want to know what the literal first thing a Psychologist is taught to look for in a patient? My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

The movie’s title works in both a literal and a metaphorical way. ‘Rotting in the Sun’ Review: Instagram, Real 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z

In a book that is at its most literal when incorporating a mechanical Jesus, Cruickshank supplies flashes of mysticism. Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z

He also absorbs literal abuse from his interlocutors, especially when the topic is religion. A man becomes impossibly pedantic and gets a reality TV show in 'The One-Eyed Man' by Ron Currie Jr. 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

It's the blandly didactic product of priggish, literal, two-dimensional thinking. David Mitchell 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

Follow directions, literal and otherwise, regarding flashlights and high-clearance vehicles, snakes and scorpions. Along the Rio Grande, a Hot Spring and a Warm Welcome 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

The shutdown had ended, but it took Bridges many more months to get back into literal fighting form. ‘The Old Man’ Brought Jeff Bridges to TV. John Lithgow Had No Advice. 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

"I think from his perspective, he was just kind of like, "Use your common sense," she said. "The bowl of apples with literal razors sticking out is a bad choice. Razor blades and weed edibles: Behind the enduring Halloween "candy poisoning" urban legends 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

In much the same way “Buffy” would do a decade later, “Heathers” took the hell that is high school and made it literal. Director Michael Lehmann on why Ivanka and Kellyanne are today's "good Heathers" 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

In “Winterize,” the piece’s journey was made literal as performer and audience walked through a chilly Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Review: A Conceptual ‘Winterreise’ Puts a Spin on Schubert 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

It is easy for the choreographer to become tied to the literal meanings of the words, thus losing other emotional resonances. Lost in translation: does dancing to words work? 2011-04-06T15:58:31Z

Nor are the two stories unrelated in their literal events. Surviving AIDS, but at What Cost? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Though the idea of trading freedom for effect may seem the literal antithesis of empowerment, that imagery helped clear a path in the collective imagination. Thierry Mugler: Nothing Is Ever Too Extreme 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

I like this, thanks — treating the impulses not as literal marching orders, but instead as clues. Carolyn Hax: After mom’s death, suddenly thinking about big changes 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Along with grammatical flexibility, this figurativeness is the hallmark of a fully obscene word, a word used not as a literal descriptor but to shock, offend, or otherwise carry emotion — a swearword. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z

There are some things that are literal, but they’re so strange. Maggie Gyllenhaal Has Dangerous Ideas About Directing 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

A 2016 study by criminologists at the University of California at Irvine found that participants were more likely to perceive rap as threatening and literal compared with genres such as country. California makes it harder to use lyrics as evidence against rappers 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

“Wu Tang Forever” is a literal reunion of the Wu-Tang Clan. Lil Wayne Becomes an Elder, While Logic Grows Up 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

The Heart, apparently, is kept in a literal cloud. "Heart of Stone" stars Gal Gadot in a lackluster Europudding action flick 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z

But let’s face it: The most over-the-top performances in “Magic Mike XXL” aren’t necessarily meant to be a literal reflection of our erotic desires. Women, stop apologizing for loving “Magic Mike XXL”: Our visual pleasure matters as much as any man’s 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Some hospitals opt for a more literal soundtrack. Hospitals Play ‘Songs of Hope’ as Virus Patients Go Home 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

“The Girl on the Train” is full of back-stabbing, none of it literal. ‘The Girl on the Train,’ by Paula Hawkins 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

To someone living exclusively online, many of Freud’s “primitive beliefs” would be literal truths. The Horror Novel Lurking in Your Busy Online Life 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

At times this point of view was made literal, as when Elliot decided to slow everything down before concluding “this isn’t gonna work” and speeding it back up, the action onscreen reflecting his commands. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

In the most literal sense, it is Amtrak’s version of luxury rail, traversing a line between Boston and Washington. Zippy Amtrak Train Gets Tangled in ‘the Swamp’ 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

It’s too literal, but the breath of life is what’s being taken away. Artists Are Hunkered Down, but Still Nurturing Their Inner Visions 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

As the literal bearers of White society, White women were tasked with ideal womanhood. Review | Ruby Hamad’s essay about White women’s tears went viral. ‘White Tears/Brown Scars’ delves deeper into performative victimhood. 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Those implications lie close to the surface, it’s true, but the most profound contemporary resonances of those movies are in plain, literal view. 2010-02-06T02:29:00Z

But everything in the Dolce & Gabbana collection seemed so literal: for a woman’s jaunty masculine side, there were suspenders, cropped pants and band leader shoes, which showed off the duo’s tailoring skills. Special Report: Fashion: Surface Attraction 2011-02-27T17:05:09Z

Many evangelicals, in their own description, see the holiday as a celebration of the occult, often viewed in their religious worldview as connected to a very literal Satan. When Halloween became America’s most dangerous holiday 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

“A Woman’s Life” — a more literal translation of the French title would just be “A Life” — is the new film by Stéphane Brizé. Review: Indelible Heartbreak, Moment to Moment, in ‘A Woman’s Life.’ 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

After the second episode, the show strays from the rodeo scenes, pushing the notion of Chip as a clown from the literal to the more generally metaphorical. No Clowning Around 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

But he waved me off a literal religious reading of his work. Michelangelo Pistoletto Endures. Even Covid Couldn’t Stop Him. 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

It can never be a literal recording of what the audience in the theatre once saw. Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream: a cook and a concept 2013-04-15T14:28:03Z

Janowitz captures surf, spray and fog with tremendous, hard-won technical skill in his beautiful monotypes, paintings and watercolors, but he seemed to bear Nakaya no ill will for her more literal approach. Review | Japanese artist’s ephemeral fogscapes transform Boston’s Emerald Necklace 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

In “Holy Manna,” the incised forms are even less literal: They’re the names of Borden’s children, grandchildren and fellow choir members, all of whom live nearby. Review | In the galleries: Breaching the border between art and furniture 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

For all its visceral force, her prose is literal, urgent, packed into the tight container of a single book about multiple sicknesses and disappointments and losses. How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

He is a direct and charming talker, but he carries just the vaguest hint that if there were any literal punching in the face to be done, he would not be taking a step back. Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice – it's within my grasp' 2013-03-23T22:24:20Z

On the one hand, I wanted it to be a literal examination of the lies I have told over the course of my life and try to examine why I told them. “Lying to make life bearable”: Cheryl Strayed interviews memoirist Rob Roberge 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

A vocabulary of movement, gesture and response is surely different from a literal vocabulary, so mapping one straightforwardly to the other is likely to be plodding. Lost in translation: does dancing to words work? 2011-04-06T15:58:31Z

Yet the stage is more literal than the page, and there’s a bumptiousness to the vaudeville-grade performances that edges Thackeray’s wit and satire firmly into farce. Review | Becky Sharp returns with razzmatazz in Kate Hamill’s stripped-down ‘Vanity Fair’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Yet literal overstatement would surely smother this delicate show as it poignantly circles its questions about race, the past and how to move ahead. Buoyant ‘Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea’: Heavy themes, light touch 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

In a landscape dominated by comic-book movies like “Marvel’s The Avengers” and “The Dark Knight Rises,” will viewers put down money to see an Indian boy on a literal and spiritual journey with a tiger? ‘Life of Pi’ Is New Ang Lee Film, Based on Yann Martel Tale 2012-09-09T03:43:02Z

He needed a fresh start, with a new camera; he had to get out of New York; he needed to think bigger, in the most literal sense imaginable. Avedon at Large 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Or was it something deeper than the literal meaning of the words that made me want to hold these lines in my hands? Praise Poems: Ellen Bass Talks About 'Like a Beggar' 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

One of Sierz's chief contentions is that "for a while, there has been a real tension in contemporary British theatre between the literal, on the one hand, and the metaphysical, on the other". Noises off 2010-03-25T17:09:00Z

But the literal meaning of the title speaks plainly, in that Shiv and Roman are, at long last, done playing their father's game. A devastating end to "Succession" wakes up to the truth about the Roys: "We're nothing" 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

This isn’t a literal adaptation, though there are points of connection between the original and this version. ‘Paris, 13th District’ Review: Groping Toward Happiness 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

The brand appeals to the pipe dream that with just the colon cleanse, you too could get your metaphoric and literal sh*t serenely, vibrantly together. Our crappy healthcare system is to blame for Goop 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Rama returned to figurative works in her later years, when she made even more literal the overlapping of bodies and contraptions. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

My interest in Japan is – in a literal sense of course, but in sort of a metaphorical sense – that I'm using the idea of the outsider, the foreigner, as my own vehicle as well. Donald Richie obituary 2013-02-21T16:20:36Z

Then things took a more literal turn with a male model in tiny spike undies, a cross across his bare chest and a long shiny cape lined in red. The Blonds end fashion week with hot vampires, writhing trio 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

Though their individual poetic style and tone are completely different, together they build a perfect and true sonnet with both literal and figurative levels of meaning. Elizabeth Wein's top 10 dynamic duos in fiction 2013-06-20T12:33:58Z

“I didn’t think we had to be literal with a groom and a tuxedo and all that.” The Latest Bridal Dress Collections Showed Few New Wrinkles 2014-04-18T21:15:29Z

Another showcase for contemporary, less literal interpretations of Afrofuturism is 9J, a boutique and gallery recently sprung up on Bruckner Boulevard in the South Bronx. Afrofuturism: The Next Generation 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

He has lodged his tongue firmly in cheek with a sly performance in which “under-recognized artist” takes on literal meaning. 'Made in L.A. 2016': Hammer Museum biennial proves a thoughtful place to ponder the possibilities 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

She’s out of place in this parade of women, both the very real one coming through Sterling Cooper & Partners’ front doors and the less literal parade of women in Don’s bed. “Mad Men” recap: Don Draper says goodbye to his greatest love 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

As a director, when he’s not being grimly literal, he’s all flourishes and shock effects. Review: A Netflix Legal Thriller Weighs Genocide and Guilt 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

A product of the old school in the most literal sense, his prewar attitude hasn’t aged well as we move into the late ’60s. Mad Men Watch: Three Bad Trips 2012-04-23T12:00:25Z

That scent can seem almost literal, given the great masses of flowers that find their way into almost every composition. DVDs: Painting It Red: Midcareer Minnelli 2011-02-12T06:33:51Z

As recently as the 1970s and ’80s, stores and catwalks teemed with adaptations, mostly literal, of Hollywood’s greatest wardrobe hits. Film and Fashion: Just Friends 2010-03-04T16:34:00Z

Hogg knows the story as no one else does; her authority is, in the literal sense, unimpeachable. “The Souvenir,” Reviewed: Joanna Hogg’s Ambitious, Frustrating Autobiographical Drama 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

There is poetry in the idea: the power of dance, made literal. Harnessing an Unusual Kind of Natural Energy: Dancers’ Body Heat 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

HUNTERS, like a myriad of acclaimed films on the subject, does not always adhere to literal truth in its pursuit of capturing the representational truth of the Holocaust. "Hunters" creator defends show 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Especially so on the two-piano world premiere of “Concert Paraphrase on ‘Powder Her Face,’ ” where the composer and Gerstein take the dynamic duo thing to a very literal and beautiful place. A critic’s suggestions for music to fill the dog days 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

This was a "welcome home" sign, a food and smell that signified comfort, nostalgia, as well as a literal favor. Every time I eat tuna, I’m honoring my father 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

I got the impression that on the whole, she found that her students had been a bit too literal for her taste. How I knew I could cook: It's easy, if you're born to it 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Here and there she is a touch too literal, but for the most part, she deftly tracks the quicksilver and sometimes knotty texture of the author’s prose. The Story of the Girl Who Volunteered To Be Imprisoned by the Nazis 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Not in the literal sense, but because of the utility that they have that we in the every day fail to think of. Emilio Estevez on making "The Public," a film about dignity, homelessness and libraries 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

It’s probably less literal and more sort of intuitive. ArtsBeat: More Todd Haynes on My Morning Jacket Concert Film 2011-05-03T19:48:06Z

It sounds more like Fever Ray and the underbelly of M83, with an overly literal video that Trent Reznor would like. Walls, A*M*E, All Dom Wrong: this week's new tracks 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z

The found objects are old and often worn, pushing the frame of reference back in time even as their physicality forces them into the present, into our literal space. An artist refashions the past: Whitfield Lovell’s ‘Kin’ 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The pressures, both literal and figurative, are enormous. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z

The literal process of leaving the island is so arduous and challenging and expensive. "Every Day in Kaimuki" filmmakers on questioning contentment: "Are you happy or is this just easy?" 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

In the case of “we need your listening,” the production that started in the theater’s lobby, the disconnection was often literal, with pesky audio and video glitches hindering stretches of the 30-minute-long webcast. Where Are We? Theatrical Adventures in Digital Dislocation 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

The decade was defined by explosions of various kinds — both the literal bombings both at war and at home, and the figurative blowing up of family life and social norms. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z

Spiegelhalter is an immensely engaging guide to this struggle, meeting seismologists, gamblers, statisticians and others who study the throw of the dice, metaphorical or literal. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z

An obsessive like Errol Morris or Werner Herzog might have pushed beyond pathos and curiosity, deeper into the literal no man’s land that lies between us and our estranged animal relations. | 'Project Nim': Some Humans and the Chimp They Loved and Tormented 2011-07-07T22:30:06Z

In that moment, I realised my mother’s interpretation of her faith was more literal than other church members. My son was diagnosed with autism at five. Did he inherit it from my misunderstood mother? 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

The question is, how literal is the magic in Botticelli's art? Botticelli's love drug 2010-05-28T09:31:00Z

At the age of 16, Alexander’s education under Aristotle ended and his literal world domination began. Six teenagers who rocked the world 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

In “Jackie,” Larraín announces his intention to depart from literal truth from the very beginning of the film when we hear the eerie, disorienting chords of Mica Levi’s boldly abstract score. ‘Jackie,’ art and accuracy in a post-fact world 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Cinematically speaking, the transitions into and out of Malkovich are amusingly literal, and the actor's point-of-view is rendered with an old-fashioned vignette. 'Inside Out,' 'The Matrix' and more: Ranking cinema's notable head trips 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Most of these artifacts bear witness to an abiding devotion to curvilinear, sinuous, abstract designs and an absence of the literal representation of humans and animals. Cultures of the Celts, Revisited 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

The screen prints in Gallery Neptune & Brown’s “Quotidian: Recent Editions” are rather more literal. Review | In the galleries: Crossing the line between aesthetics and science 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

As readers have been aware since the Definitive Edition appeared more than 20 years ago, the “Diary” as we know it, despite its misleading title, isn’t a literal diary. Anne Frank’s Diary, in Graphic Form, Reveals Its Humor 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

This isn’t the first time durian has caused a literal and figurative stink. Indonesian airline delays flight after passengers argue with staff over smell of durian fruit in cargo 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

The book’s title is a play on the literal meaning of the word Islam, and also suggests the docility with which France in 2022 accepts the new order. Michel Houellebecq, Casually Provocative 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

The movie’s imaginative spectrum is enormous, four-dimensionally so: it delves deep into a literal underground world that lends the hallucinatory concept of the “sunken place” from “Get Out” a physical embodiment. Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

They also passed the mic in the literal sense, requiring each participant to get in a little public-speaking practice by telling a story about their influences. Review: Getting Into the Tap Family Spirit With Two Stars as Hosts 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Even the lovely Chopin prelude he played for his encore seemed literal: Although he beautifully modulated the dynamic line, he was unable to escape a pervasive sense of percussiveness. Philly beguiles with symphonic power 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

The saga of the medical testing company Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, is a swirling one, packed with lies, greed, secret romance, literal blood, metaphorical blood, power, secrecy and money. Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes: What to Read, Watch and Listen To 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Questions of the filmmaker’s role are moot, given Mr. Neuvonen’s literal complicity in his friends’ lives and misdeeds. Movie Review: Living a Drug Life in a World of Snow 2011-06-07T22:17:51Z

“It’s a quite literal representation of being at two places at once, because it has the lunar calendar as well as the American calendar,” the artist said. Hidden in a Mini-Mall in Flushing, a Home for Art 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z

In the atrium, Abramović is making the title of her exhibition literal. Performance artist Marina Abramovi? ? 'I have to be like a mountain' 2010-03-19T12:26:00Z

Sometimes that sense of dislocation is literal in his movies, and sometimes it is metaphorical. Haile Gerima?s Films Mirror Ethiopia?s Struggle 2010-03-29T22:08:00Z

It seems right, for example, that the starriest moment of her career came with a literal grounding. Jennifer Lawrence: whip-smart and witty star who likes a good fight | Observer profile 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

At first Liv disregards him, but as the novel winds towards its convulsive ending, she becomes convinced of the literal truth of his tale. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z

That can result in a literal crust of bacteria, so give it a quick wipe down whenever you start to notice build-up. When to toss Sriracha and what to do with tahini: "Saucy" answers your burning condiment questions 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

The real suspense of the movie lies not with the key and its supposed hidden message, but with his father’s literal messages, the ones on the machine. Brace Yourselves for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2011-12-21T15:15:09Z

He often draws from others' images, sometimes photos, sometimes movies - he loves movies! - or maybe the architecture of a building, although never to the point of being obvious or literal. Calvin Klein's Costa stirring more attention 2012-05-16T20:36:09Z

But Stone prefers to make those connections literal — in the service, he believes, of the audience. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

“I’m not going to ignore the literal elephant in the room,” Leiby said on Tuesday, thanking the person behind the lone guffaw in the audience for getting her wordplay. Performing a Comedy About Abortion, Watching the Supreme Court 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Actually, “Rogue One” is unusually dark, but only in the literal sense—its cinematography enshrouds the characters in a surprisingly murky depth of shadows. “Rogue One” Reviewed: Is It Time to Abandon the “Star Wars” Franchise? 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

The new release of “Both Directions at Once” has both the odd virtue and the essential disadvantage of domesticating, in the literal sense, these musical ecstasies. “Both Directions at Once,” Reviewed: The Thrills—and Limits—of a Rediscovered John Coltrane Recording 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

The latter series was a little literal in execution. Rick Owens Designs for the End of Days; Dior and Lanvin Soldier On 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

In this case, that poison is literal, demonstrated by a ravaged land, polluted by the emotions men are unable to process. Review | A dystopian novel takes on rape culture 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

When shocks were literal, as in suits colored turquoise or parakeet green, the result was still classy. Special Report: Fashion: In the Money! 2011-06-19T12:10:33Z

The drama opens with a literal bang that sets into motion a cycle of revenge, high stakes and often heartbreaking decisions that cause four characters’ lives to intersect in unexpected ways. Master of None's Lena Waithe: 'If you come from a poor background, TV becomes what you dream about' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

I mean this metaphorically and literally, but right now I’m focusing on the literal meaning. ‘America loves the theory that all men are created equal, but doesn’t love the practice’ 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

But of course, there was a time when there were literal witch hunts, and these upended society in the gravest way. Rivka Galchen’s Historical Novel Satirizes Moral Panic 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

Though Yorke is not a trained dancer, he is a convincing physical presence here, pushing against the tides of modernity in both literal and metaphorical ways. Thom Yorke’s “Anima” Is His Best Solo Album 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Opening on one of its panting pursuits, the series perpetrates a literal cliffhanger within its first ninety seconds. “The Innocents,” Reviewed: Teen Lovers on the Run in a Young-Adult “Westworld” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

In the case of Borges, Wallace argued, “the stories so completely transcend their motive cause that the biographical facts become, in the deepest and most literal way, irrelevant.” Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

It not only acknowledges the literal sins of the father, but also that leaving those in the past is not enough to erase their effects. How “Frozen 2” is like “Watchmen” 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

Later Theresa’s self-consciousness about her back is amusingly made literal by having her cavort on the disco floor with a curved sculpture strapped to her back, suggesting a twisted external spine. | 'Goodbar': ?Goodbar? at Under the Radar Festival - Review 2012-01-05T22:43:47Z

It’s a metaphor made literal: She exposes far too much of herself. Review: In ‘An Abbreviated Life,’ Ariel Leve Escapes Her Mommie Dearest 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

But viewers shouldn’t expect to see literal references to Mr. Wilson’s research in “Citizen.” For This Choreographer, Dance Speaks Truer Than Words 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

The filmmakers take a literal view of the power of poetry in the public arena as well. Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z

By definition, fiction isn't literal, and it's completely impractical – hence all those questions to Russian majors about what we're going to do with our lives. Edward Snowden's study guide to Russian literature 2013-07-28T13:00:00Z

For Sally Hawkins, the cliche proved painfully literal when she attended the premiere of her new film, Submarine, last autumn. Sally Hawkins: 'You think adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be capable' 2011-03-13T00:05:19Z

Of course, it’s probably a bit early for “Brexit” and the recent upheavals at Downing Street and among the major parties to be given literal stage life. Our Chief Theater Critic Is in London and Wants to Hear From You 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

That cover is almost absurdly literal: A woman in a blue bikini peeks through brass-handled French doors. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

If such literal renderings suggest sophisticated children’s-book illustrations, other compositions are more layered and intangible. Review | In the galleries: Depicting nature’s vital, ephemeral connections 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

But every writer knows the weight, the power, the literal, palpable reality of silence. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

"One of the things we learned shooting one city for another is the importance of capturing the spirit of a place versus the literal landmarks," she said. 'The Killing': dark, twisty TV murder-mystery set in Seattle but filmed in Vancouver 2011-03-26T01:16:10Z

Paradoxically, Ayer’s bluntly literal style treats the movie’s thematic twists as blandly as its ornamental ones. The Styleless Fakery of “Suicide Squad” 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

So the pandemic changes pandemic movies because viruses can’t be anything but literal? Brandon Cronenberg Will Now Perform an Interview 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

With Nick Carraway, the observer of all this wealth and privilege, transferred from narrator to supporting player, Gatsby is forced to explain himself and the import of his story in excessively literal arias. Music Review: John Harbison’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Opera at Tanglewood 2013-07-14T19:50:12Z

This time, Ginsburg is said to be the stickler for literal convention, while Scalia has claimed he is more open-minded about modern approaches to staging. With Derrick Wang's 'Scalia/Ginsburg,' a unanimous opinion 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

I think it even pushed men's fashion in new directions but I don't understand doing something so literal. Help! The ’80s Are Back 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

The segue into “My Body” feels both literal and abrupt, and we miss the antagonists. ‘The Life’ Review: Turning More Than a Few New Tricks 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Miller’s masterpiece fits into the summer blockbuster canon in a less literal capacity as well, striking its ideal balance of dazzling technical spectacle and massively-scaled emotional catharsis. 'A total blast': our writers pick their favorite summer blockbusters ever 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Gleick even goes so far as to declare that literal time travel, as imagined and reimagined by writers over the decades, “does not exist. It cannot.” Anthony Doerr Reviews a New Book on Time Travel 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Some things may make more literal sense before the series is over. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 8: White Light White Heat 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

But the show on the whole doesn’t just fail in an attempt to reckon with the zeitgeist, the literal “spirit of the times”; Daniels hasn’t even made the effort to dissect his subject. Crash landing: Space Force is not the Trump satire we need right now 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

In addition, horticulture offers people the chance to see the literal fruits of their labor. Planting a life — and a future — after prison at Benevolence Farm 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Ms. Boyce’s inspiration — “the unsettling of spring grounds,” according to a program note — found literal expression in Lora Robertson’s projections of flocking birds, nascent plants and gnarled tree roots. Satellite Collective Puts on Varied Program at BAM Fisher 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

That light is a little more literal now. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

It follows the same basic plot as the book, a work of alternate historical fiction: the Underground Railroad is a literal series of trains run by Black people spiriting enslaved people toward freedom. Filming ‘The Underground Railroad’ was grueling. But the cast grasped ‘the weight of what we were doing.’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

The choice made literal what was implicit throughout this often impressive festival: The pop ethic, survivor of many iterations, is mutable and agnostic and unembarrassed. Music: At NYC Popfest, Bands Offer Fun, Clean-Cut Stuff 2010-05-24T23:50:00Z

The metaphor is made literal: Charles is shown playing Richard II in a student production. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

The secret garden is a catalyst for healing in the characters who see it, and with Colin the effect is literal. The Secret Garden's hidden depths 2011-08-05T11:42:29Z

Members believe in the literal truth of the Bible, including the creation story. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z

In The Long Goodbye, out this week, Meghan O'Rourke recounts how, when scattering the ashes of her mother, they blew back in the family's faces – an almost literal ingesting of the dead. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z

But more than these, it was the city itself, its mood of hard-edge coziness and sudden revelations around unexpected corners, that cemented the more literal Potter connections. Discovering the magic of Edinburgh 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

At the foot of the driveway, there is a literal pearly gate. Going to Graceland 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

The corners flex as if the piece is ready to curl off the wall, escaping literal notions of what painting can be. In the galleries: ‘Strictly Painting’ is anything but 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

But the impact of each damaged flower is far-reaching — into the ecosystem and into the future, especially when you consider the cumulative, literal footprints of hundreds of thousands of people. The fields are alive: How to view a wildflower bloom without destroying it 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

If it’s cinematic language, or it’s literal poetry, that’s what gets me going.” David Patrick Kelly, a Character Actor Vibrating on His Own Plane 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Biographical events transmute into art so straightforwardly as to render the account of Melville's creativity strangely literal, even reductive. The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini ? review 2011-02-13T00:08:03Z

Explosions, figurative and literal, are obviously in the offing. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Change in the Air 2013-07-12T16:58:10Z

There are moments when one almost wishes for some fictional shaping in the service of a truth larger, and more potent, than the literal one. Review: ‘The Liars’ Club,’ by Mary Karr 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The first season of Westworld finished with a literal bang as the black-tie beach party got the end of the world in full swing. 10 Questions Westworld still needs to answer 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

There’s a sense of movement in the larger assemblages, in which the elements are connected — by literal links such as ropes and banners — yet dispersed on vast white fields. In the galleries: Elvis and E.T. meet an ancient Asian art form 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

A roar of cheers and instantly the arena was aglow with sparklers lit in literal tribute. The Doors: 'You could call us erotic politicians' – a classic interview 2013-05-22T12:46:03Z

I was thinking how, when you’re a kid, you think the Underground Railroad is a literal railroad. 6 Questions for Colson Whitehead, Author of The Underground Railroad 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

“Everything she writes, every word, is literal and factually true,” said Dan Simon, the founder Seven Stories Press, which has been publishing Ernaux in English for 31 years. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

They can be playful, something more literal minded western writers often fail to grasp, for when it comes to Africa humour is the first casualty. The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

The fits, to her, are less dramatic or literal than those depicted in the film, but are something she sees all the time with her girls. ‘The Fits’: It’s All in the Footwork for a Girl Who Boxes, Then Dances 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Nothing was literal, no more than a sleek side-tied black satin dress, worn with little gold sandals, is an Asian style. Fashion Review: Dior, Lanvin, Hussein Chalayan, Roland Mouret: A Fashion Review 2012-09-28T22:32:12Z

A line can be literal or it can raise a question. Hal Linden returns to the stage for 'The Fantasticks,' the longest-running musical in history 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

"Very basic, very literal", it crept up on BBC1 rival Doctors with almost a million viewers, although the Guardian described it as "not so much Mike Leigh as Acorn Antiques". Why Suspects is revolutionising crime drama 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Ambitious, Inception-style conspiracy thriller, with Damon and Blunt lovers on the run from literal agents of fate when they deviate from The Plan. This week's new films 2011-03-05T00:07:29Z

Well not in a literal sense, but 497 days prior to yesterday she got the call that her Mom was dying. Marriage after her mastectomy 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

I mean simple colors in the most literal sense. Can a Simple, Classic European Fantasy Win Over Jaded American Kids? This One Just Might 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

A serious student of Scripture is aware that neither English nor Latin versions can be described as “literal.” The Truth and Fiction of Adam and Eve 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

“I thought it would be fun to just get kind of abstract and make it a fantasy dream sequence in a way, not literal,” he told TrekMovie.com in 2019. Douglas Trumbull, Visual Effects Wizard, Dies at 79 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

You can fly like Superman, go 20,000 leagues under the sea, or walk around as a literal demon; you can do whatever you can imagine and no one will judge you. "Dead End: Paranormal Park" explores theme parks as queer getaways 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

Cropped bullfighter pants were way too literal a reference. Special Report: Fashion: That Ghostly Presence 2011-06-23T17:07:01Z

Kerouac’s time on the mountain was a literal and figurative apex for him, his last truth-seeking adventure before he was transformed by the hostile media into first a caricature of himself, and later a shadow. Footsteps: Climbing a Peak That Stirred Kerouac 2012-11-16T16:27:46Z

Two of the paintings in Adrienne Gaither’s “Eye Don’t See Color” series are built from blocks of various flesh tones; in the third, blues and reds bracket solid black-and-white, metaphorical but not literal skin hues. In the galleries: Shiny fantasy worlds, undercut by body parts and company logos 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Gallego’s opponents are certain to try to portray him as a figurative bomb thrower if not a literal one. Ruben Gallego made mental health part of his campaign. Specifically, his own. 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

All this pink is an effect of Haber’s infrared photography, which suggests the effects of pollution—nature gone wrong—without feeling overly literal. “Braddock, PA,” a Brisk, Remedial Documentary of a Rust Belt Town 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

And while mimetic gestures are often part of flexing, the literal storytelling here undermines the form’s inherent rebelliousness. Review: In ‘Flexn,’ Street Dance Gets a Grand Stage 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Again, cyberbullying is real — but even if a celebrity isn’t technically being bullied in the literal sense, on a public relations level, blaming “haters” is a classic form of “offense is the best defense.” How long can famous people get away with dismissing criticism as ‘bullying’ from ‘haters’? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

A group of literal antiheroes, the Boys, work to get back at the “supes,” in the show’s parlance, for their misdeeds and keep them in line. My Screens Are Filled With Black Death, but I Won’t Look Away 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

But his writing is unpolished and overly literal; it lacks verve. 'Beatrice and Virgil': Yann Martel's haunting fable of humans, animals and violence 2010-04-14T21:26:00Z

“A Wrinkle in Time” took place outside of time, in both a literal and a figurative sense. Motherlode Blog: 'A Wrinkle in Time' Turns 50 2012-02-01T00:05:36Z

As for the mysterious gift Cersei intends to return in episode three, we have a feeling it won't be as literal as it sounds. New Game of Thrones Episode Descriptions Tease Explosive Season 7 Start 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

In Night Vale, this translates to a being a literal shape-shifter, often taking the form of a psychedelic mishmash of spare animal parts. 'Welcome to Night Vale' podcast becomes an equally weird, haunted yet humorous novel 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Movies are often metaphorically about movies, but in “Hugo,” “The Artist” and “My Week With Marilyn” filmmaking is a literal subject. Movies: A Season of Movies About Movies 2011-12-04T03:43:05Z

But her images are too literal to unsettle habitual expectations deeply. Art Review: ‘New Photography 2012,’ at Museum of Modern Art 2012-11-29T20:43:18Z

Some of the boys could not communicate very well with their hearing families, and Father Murphy operated in the literal certainty of their silence. Movie Review: ‘Mea Maxima Culpa,’ Alex Gibney Documentary 2012-11-15T23:34:58Z

The backstage commentary circles around the bailiwick of a production designer and frustrations over Mr. Helnwein’s literal interpretations. Movie Review: ‘Gottfried Helnwein and the Dreaming Child’ 2012-11-22T23:04:04Z

Siegel's format is promising: The piece's voids and irregular edges make literal the provisionality of her records, and the weave itself speaks acutely of the layering of time, culture and belief central to her subject. Pacific Standard Time exhibition at the Fowler traces the power of sacred plants in Brazil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

For many viewers, “The Good Wife” finale was a literal slap in the face. Embrace “The Good Wife”’s final slap: A happily-ever-after ending would have been the show’s biggest betrayal 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Smith's prison is literal – the Essex borstal – and though running gives him a sense of freedom, the only way he can express it is by deliberately losing. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

In “Exit West,” Hamid makes these gateways literal: his migrants cross the world through a series of enchanted doors. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

In these literal times it’s often overlooked that some of the best sex you’ll ever have takes place in the space between your ears. I love my girlfriend, but I want to have a threesome | Dear Mariella 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

As he goes to Puerto Rico and explores, there’s a literal transformation. Author hopes his new book will help kids learn more about Puerto Rico 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

It's hard to find the point of them, in a very literal sense. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

She’s viewed as both the source of the literal, as well as, in the more figurative sense, the source of the continuity of the community. The war on female sexuality: Is globalization to blame? 2013-01-05T23:00:00Z

It's drenched in a certain vile irony for which only soft boy misogyny can be the explanation, the kind of misogyny that aids and abets literal violence against Black women. Drake, it's time to give up the soft boy gimmick: Why the rapper's lover boy persona is a sham 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z

They appreciate their religion as a tradition, a culture and a set of guiding principles, but perhaps not as either the literal truth or the only acceptable way to live a good life. Motherlode Blog: Parental Quandary: Lying to My In-Laws About Church 2012-01-13T16:29:21Z

Some music is very literal, of course, but the mind listens to music in a different way than it reads. Ottessa Moshfegh on becoming a writer and her buzzed-about novel, 'Eileen' 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

There’s no thrum of national panic, no sense of the wide world outside this very literal narrative. Review | Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s ‘The President Is Missing’ is an awkward duet 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

“If it’s to be a literal Indiana Jones, who’s to say?” Megan Fox on Becoming a Real-Life Indiana Jones 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

At the same time, her works are timely and raise questions that extend well beyond a print's literal dimensions. Veterans' portraits bring war's consequences into sharp focus 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z

It’s a series of conceptual projects designed to highlight the spaces between people, both literal and figurative. 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Do we really need a David and Goliath literal depiction of Jack killing th Giant? ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Without this literal political capital, monarchs quickly became less powerful than their “overmighty vassals.” “Game of Thrones” politics: War makes for strange bedfellows, indeed 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

If Nate isn't happy, he doesn't want to look in the mirror – literal or metaphorical. The many betrayals of "Ted Lasso" 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

These two extraordinary characters navigate the dangers of the frontier, driven at times by literal thirst and haunted by a more intangible want. Téa Obreht Reinvents the Western Novel — and Brings Camels 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

A play set in an alternate universe “gives you great freedom to think about where you are now without the pressure of having to be so literal,” Mr. Scheib said. Cyborgs Onstage, Robots in the Wings 2010-12-30T23:58:33Z

But since Audubon worked from observing dead animals arranged in lifelike poses, it is in a literal sense a still-life: an image of life stilled. Four Rewarding Shows in Philadelphia 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

What brought on this early attention to the geography of living things was, oddly enough, a shift from allegorical to literal interpretations of the Bible. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z

Yet the idea that music can convey something literal, and that conveying it will make the resulting piece more “accessible,” is widespread, and pernicious. When musicians risk painting themselves into corners 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Each post is given literal points “for lack of basic spelling and punctuation skills; bad sexual innuendo; reliance on cliche; terrible taste in books, music or movies; use of twelve-year-old-girl text-slang; and creep factor.” The world’s worst online daters 2012-12-06T01:00:00Z

And, by the way, I was a playwright who had often translated classic plays, working off what are called “literal translations” but without any knowledge of the original language. They Know Russian. I Know Plays. Would That Translate? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

The painter Jordan Casteel, 27, an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, called Mr. Douglas’s work “a literal depiction and a visual representation of a time.” Fifty Years Later, Black Panthers’ Art Still Resonates 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

The former is a literal song about its own creation, a dream come true for Mr. Symphony, who sings in his deep voice about every aspect from writing to recording. SEA soul / SF rap: "DREAMS" versus "D.R.E.A.M" 2011-09-15T18:12:50Z

Featuring dozens of cool stunts at a turbo pace, and climaxing with a literal cliffhanger, the sequence could almost lead viewers to exclaim, “Wow, this is a real movie!” REVIEW: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mock Turtle 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

As with any series, one can interpret “Cobra Kai” in the literal sense or view it through a metaphorical lens. "Cobra Kai" returns: Will the "no mercy" way of fighting win? 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

You may want a less literal and more emotional response. Perspective | Ask Amy: Flustered hosts seek rules for houseguests 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

As the literal “face” of Chanel, Ms. Qualley is on offer as another consumable commodity, positioned against backdrops designed to convey global sophistication, refinement and indulgence. The Cinderella Myth We Can’t Quit 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

She worked from a new literal translation, by Margarita Shalina, then adapted that into living, theatrical English. Annie Baker’s ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Set for Soho Rep 2012-06-08T00:30:02Z

His techniques suggest his own distrust of Albert’s voice—not his literal distrust of its veracity but his doubt of its ability to hold a viewer’s attention and to hold even his own. The Reductive Narrative Tactics of “Author: The JT LeRoy Story” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

“In my mind, I was creating a color that would look good on Vice President Harris in that outfit and be evocative of the flag without being too literal,” Collins says. Vice President Harris is making her mark on the Washington-area crochet scene 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

When "urban blacks" are discussed in America's popular discourse or when we discuss "the ghetto" this is about race and who is on the other side of the literal or metaphorical wall. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

The production still seems half-baked, yet when it coheres, it’s like good jazz: without being literal it finds its way back to its theme. Dance Review: ?Visible? at Harlem Stage Gatehouse - Review 2011-10-16T19:48:01Z

"A fly on the wall would have been too literal." Miles Redd Decorates an Eclectic Houston Mansion 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

But other “Tales” episodes are more literal and less interesting. Review: In BET’s ‘Tales,’ Rap Lyrics Get Lost in Translation 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

Because really, there’s no such thing as Black Friday anymore, not in a literal sense. What Does ‘Black Friday’ Even Mean Anymore? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

On the contrary, in the translation profession, hints of literal translation often signal low-quality work. "Squid Game": Why you shouldn’t be too hard on translators 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

What would happen when all the book's explicit bondage scenes were made literal on a giant movie screen, a private reading experience now turned into a communal gathering under flashing digital marquees? 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and the dawn of movie hate-watching 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

No one said, “Have fun in the café when your son pulls the entire Valentine display to the floor, leaving a pile of red porcelain shards — literal broken hearts — shattered at the cashier’s feet.” My NYC parenting nightmare: It’s either hell or Larry David 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

One is literal: The story hinges on the two teenage leads’ being zapped across time and dimensions into a 1962 beach blanket film. Television Review: ‘Teen Beach Movie’ Goes Back to the Future 2013-07-18T21:44:52Z

The older ones were also more literal and exacting about how closely the play followed the books. How ‘Cursed Child’ Puts Parenting at the Center of the Potterverse 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

I didn't like it even while I was subscribing to it, and there was in the most literal sense nothing I could say to stop the bandwagon, even if I'd wanted to. John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself' 2013-04-12T20:01:01Z

I can't lie to them or tell them everything will probably be okay because I am looking at literal data that says otherwise. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When you know the awful truth, how do you reassure someone? 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

"It brought our family and our friends a lot closer, in a literal and metaphorical sense," Carson said. Drama camp veteran in parade knows Sandy's pain 2012-11-23T04:16:05Z

"They almost never use the literal objects to create the sound, so you end up with this incredible tension between what you see them doing and what you hear." Meet Ben Power – the National theatre's secret weapon 2013-07-24T15:34:58Z

It's carried over - I'm a literal songwriter so it's about my own character, my life. Talking Shop 2010-05-12T08:16:00Z

Mr. McDonagh is fond of face-offs and showdowns, of two people going at it hammer and tongs, sometimes with a touch of philosophy and literal blunt instruments. Review: ‘War on Everyone’ Is Missing Some Crucial Components 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

In other words, relevance doesn’t necessarily require literal topicality. To Be Topical in a Time Out of Joint 2010-02-17T22:13:00Z

Harvard’s role in the slaying at the center of “We Keep the Dead Close” also turns out to be more symbolic than literal. New Book Returns to an Irresistible Theme: the Harvard Murder 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

“We are very literal,” the executive producer Ben Silverman, who helped translate “The Office” into American and pursued the Eurovision rights for years, said last week by phone. ‘American Song Contest’ Puts a Stateside Spin on Eurovision 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, expressing a much more literal form of childhood protection, Isaac260 sent in a brilliant review of Bodyguard: Hostage by Chris Bradford. Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-03T11:00:00Z

But it becomes apparent that Jones also means these six words in a less literal sense. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Once the balls are introduced, Jiménez’s play becomes even less interested in realism, employing fantasy as a literal way of getting these characters out of their situations. Review: ‘Bruise & Thorn,’ a Gay Fantasia at a Laundromat 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

There’d be no holding back, at least in terms of the performance, as Vedder showed off his tight-knit new band to a hometown crowd during what became a literal family affair. Review: Eddie Vedder turns Seattle homecoming into family affair 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

But I didn’t want to do a literal memorial in a gallery where the work will be sold. That is not appropriate. Hugo Crosthwaite on Tijuana, Mexico's missing, the power of comic books 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Though, in that case, it’s also literal, because the whole play takes place in one small apartment, and one of the characters is unable to leave. Welcoming Back Live Theater Doesn’t Mean Agreeing About All of It 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

It’s never obvious or literal, which is both very good and sometimes problematic. Music Review: ‘Ten Freedom Summers,’ by Wadada Leo Smith 2013-05-03T05:55:12Z

But the wave here is deadly literal: the tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia the day after Christmas 2004. ‘Wave:’ weathering the storm of grief 2013-04-03T22:34:50Z

There was something interesting about the mock Victorian elegance he seemed to be working, without the reliance on literal references. Fashion Review: In Paris, the Wimp Effect Takes Hold 2010-06-29T22:42:00Z

It is, in the most literal sense, a mood. Billie Eilish and Rosalía Join Eccentric Forces, and 12 More New Songs 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

And she tears down more literal walls: a white curtain, peeled away, reveals another and another, until the whole theater is exposed. Review: Yoshiko Chuma, in a Journey Across Borders 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

The Stones brought literal and figurative fireworks to the festival's opening night Friday. Rolling Stones bring fireworks to Desert Trip festival 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Reviewing the book for The New York Times, Jennifer Szalai called it a “superb history” that turns “the question of literal movement” into “a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large.” Histories of Travel Segregation and Chinese Migration Win Bancroft Prize 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

The “resistance” of the novel’s title, then, is not just literal, but also figurative — the resistance of truth, nostalgia, silence and, ultimately, narratives. Contemporary Brazil, Captured in Two Novels and a Journalist’s Collection 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

The virtual aquatic adventure makes a splash — but not a literal one — by bringing the sights, sounds and scenes of the ocean to life with cutting-edge technology, including 3-D animation, authentic soundscapes and video mapping. From undercover to underwater: Four new Times Square attractions offer a variety of immersive experiences 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

The show uses religion both in metaphorical and literal ways: General structures of power, both religious and not, are corrupted and crumbling. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Apparently, when you’ve reached the top of the mountain, literal and professional, it’s really about the smarts, people, not the suits. How to Dress Down Like a Power Player 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Though the songs are fully amplified, they are seldom electric in any but the literal sense of that word. Review: In ‘The Wildness,’ Defenses Against Adulthood 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

The buzz will be literal as the artists get to work amid booths hawking jewelry and fashion — not only for attendees but for awards. DC Tattoo Expo in Arlington 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

This condition, Hartman claims, induces her with a very literal “fight or flight” reaction: “I feel the need to get on a plane to go away,” she said. 'Serial stowaway': how does a 66-year-old woman keep sneaking on to flights? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

That includes looking at the power of surveillance through the lens of migratory birds in Newark, Del.; the complex history of human excrement in Minde, Portugal; and a literal fishing expedition through the Sahara. Latif Nasser, Harvard Ph.D., on the Rewards of Being Dumb 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

His text is more ocean than land, a strange, fluid, weightless place where present and past, surface and depth constantly converge, where terrors, both literal and psychic, loom. Book review: ‘Shark,’ by Will Self: Postmodern novel in a psychiatric community

The maple bacon doughnut, a local favorite that sells out fast, is alarmingly literal. Pursuits: Twists and Turns Along a Kentucky Doughnut Trail 2012-11-04T03:27:20Z

Each picture is emotionally resonant, not necessarily a literal reflection of the subject but an expression of what inspired it — the geometric lines, shapes and shadows giving the image a new narrative. Icelandic magic: One U.S. couple's excursions, on view at Photo L.A. 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

My husband remarked how beautiful it was to see literal amber waves of grain rippling in the field just beyond the pool. What constitutes ‘essential’ travel in the COVID-19 era? For me, it was a 1,500-mile drive from Seattle to North Dakota 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Our quest, right now, is to understand this: Why do artists let her burrow through their crannies — literal and metaphorical — in the first place? Sociologist Sarah Thornton scrutinizes the insular art world

Bonhoeffer argues that it is naive and misleading, perhaps even dangerous to suppose that the literal truth always or even typically conveys what we mean when we talk about telling the truth. What the Original “Pinocchio” Really Says About Lying 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

If one of the masters of satire thought satirical irony was dead, then, surely, we were doomed to live in an era of boorish, literal communication. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

The strings of Carter Burwell’s score sometimes sound like birds of prey, and literal crows disrupt the somber, boxy frames with bursts of nightmarish cacophony. ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

This bizarre piece of cross-gender casting made a burlesque of Antony's marriage to Caesar's sister and gave a far too literal reading to the idea of Roman virtues being masculine. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

It was so literal because I made it in headphones in a computer. Some People Make Songs. Jack Antonoff Prays For Them. 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

And to the overly literal, I don't mean tithing or some religious-themed amusement park or you popping out that shiny quarter to cover your entry fee into the pearly gates. Frozen cup: When the best part of summer cost just a quarter 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

Cryptic to a fault, Abel Ferrara’s “Zeros and Ones” unfolds in a murkiness that’s both literal and ideological. ‘Zeros and Ones’ Review: Plague and Paranoia 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Stephen's literal silence after the war's end spoke of a reluctance among the real-life veterans to share their experiences. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-07-13T21:55:01Z

Regenerative agriculture, also known as carbon farming, works to restore soil biology by naturally pulling literal tons of carbon out of the atmosphere, bringing the soil back to life and replenishing nutrients. Tools of the trade: 14 chef-approved essentials for making the best pizza and pasta at home 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Cardew took the fight to the streets, in his music and in the literal sense of being involved in anti-fascist protests and social activism, which sometimes landed him in jail. A guide to Cornelius Cardew's music 2012-12-17T15:48:17Z

“I see all the girls copying her in such a literal way. Not just girls in the Latin world — everywhere.” Rosalía Reserves the Right to Transform 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

All three commit an act of fratricide, one literal, the other symbolic. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: A Chimp With a Machine Gun 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

I like all of its meanings, literal and metaphorical. Jay McInerney on brightness, couples and catastrophe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The fact that there are two poems, not saying identical things, but often meeting in their thought and imagery, is a literal reminder of the affinities within the enmity of war. Poem of the week: Peter Riley 2011-07-11T10:20:00Z

On “I Thought About Killing You,” to what degree is that literal and to what degree is that metaphor? Into the Wild With Kanye West 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

What “Arabian Nights” tries to do is something even more radical, which is the erasure of the distinction between the literal and the metaphorical. Review: ‘Arabian Nights’ Offers Satirical Fabulism Amid Economic Austerity 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Ironically, the literal, horizontal shape of L.A. frustrates some attempts to bring that scope into better focus. 'LAtitudes' navigates the histories and cultures of L.A. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Applying her furious arm to the literal context does nothing to rob it of its symbolic power — and Stone's unyielding intensity only makes it that much stronger. Hand Emma Stone an Oscar for this gripping "Favourite" scene alone 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Not all of the worst deaths must be literal. Who is the one who knocks? On the "Better Call Saul" midseason finale two devils drop by 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

The wrath of a highly contagious coronavirus has made that dividing line bluntly literal: It’s about two inches thick, and it locks. He’s delivering your groceries to you. He’s also risking his life. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

But medieval Japanese culture is so alien to ours that a literal rendition would probably be nearly incomprehensible, so unfortunately it’s a necessary sacrifice. ‘The Tale of Genji’: The work of a brilliant widow 1,000 years ago 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

So maybe now, as more forums close and bullies are exposed, some of the web’s predators may be getting a literal reminder of why it’s called “jailbait.” Amanda Todd’s “jailbait” blackmailer exposed 2012-10-16T20:55:00Z

An Alma Thomas painting titled “Snoopy Sees Earth Wrapped in Sunset” looks straightforward, composed of red, yellow and orange like any literal rendition of a sunset might be. Stargazing across millennia in 'Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World' 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

But the white American Girls' fights for freedom were figurative; Addy's fight was literal. We were American Girls: What Addy taught me about Black hair, freedom and myself 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

But what I love about the Horrible Histories show is that it's not a literal translation of the books. How Horrible Histories became a huge hit 2011-03-17T20:00:01Z

The staging, by Olivier Letellier, was too literal to let the work bloom as pure stylization, but too abstract to give it real narrative momentum. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

How can that lying, least literal of places, the theatre, bring to life the story of someone who cannot tell a fib? The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z

Everyone was seeking enlightenment of the most literal kind. T Magazine: Pacific Slim 2011-03-18T14:00:38Z

Some submissions were a bit too literal while others were strong. New assignment: sport photography 2010-05-28T15:00:00Z

Ms. Soper’s setting takes a dryly literal approach, with recorded sounds of a spinning top mixing with scrambled phrases and her own live, fragmented, recitation. Review: Conjuring the Splintered Self With Electronics and Voice 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

In one story, Jesus’ disciples, after his death, meet a doctor who calls himself a “physician of souls”—the literal translation of “psychiatrist”—who turns out to be Jesus himself. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

There was this literal shock that somebody was popping in to check in on their well-being or wanted to do something nice for them, because nobody had. "Daily Show" co-creator on how Trump isn't funny and comedy could help save abortion 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

The 1954 score, according to Bernstein’s notes, is not a literal rendering of Plato’s text but rather “a series of related statements in praise of love.” Alexei Ratmansky Has Russian Poetry and an American Pulse 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

As things geared up towards the trial, I began to reflect on the practical and literal possibilities in bearing witness. How an adopted girl's tragic death became fiction: David Guterson on "bearing witness" 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

New life out of the literal ashes, especially appropriate if the girl turns out to be Cole’s. ‘The Affair’ Season 2, Episode 9: Storm Coming 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

And it was also inspired by something quite literal and specific: I think their rehearsal space and maybe one of their flats was right up against the Thames. Why “London Calling” matters: “It’s incredibly in touch and ahead of its time for British punk” 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

The challenge of working with Berninger isn’t tripping over his ego, she says, but something as literal as anticipating his phrasing when they sing together. Matt Berninger, king of melancholy music, is doing just fine 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

He starts his book by wondering if his American colleagues realize the phrase "death is optional in America" was not meant to be literal. The Jane Goodall of neurosurgery 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

How much bandwidth — literal and figurative — would the video streaming consume? @Work Advice: Telecommuters not happy about video streaming plan

And when his body folds in misery, or when he travels round the stage in literal transports of grief, the pathos is extreme. Dance Review: Mark Morris Presents Purcell and Britten at Tanglewood 2013-08-01T21:50:31Z

Or much closer to home, where 90 miles off the Florida coast, affluent Americans gallivanted off in droves to a place where both the literal and tippling climates were warmer. Perspective | This influential Cuban bartender wants to preserve the elegant tradition of the island’s cantineros 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Ingrained anxiety, modern life's enforced separation and the strange allure of planes continuously taking off in the background lead each character toward momentous decisions, and in Audrey's case, a literal leap of imagination and transformation. 'Bird People' an eccentric delight 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

“It stays kind of relevant, even though it doesn’t make literal sense,” David Byrne, the band’s leader and singer, said in a recent interview. ‘Stop Making Sense’ Is Back, and Talking Heads Have More to Say 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z

When the Kinks became part of the British Invasion, an influential cadre of Americans treated them as literal invaders. ‘The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon’ — but a worldwide influence 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Given how metaphorical Cheever was, I don’t think he necessarily meant literal death. Mary Gaitskill on the Relationship Between Love and Torture 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Rather than try to bring something new to Melville, Heggie, Scheer and Foglia are more interested in illustrating it, bringing it to literal life, or at least as literal as opera can be. With L.A. Opera's 'Moby-Dick,' call it a success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The result is a film that feels lazily compressed and overly literal, suggesting a lamentable discomfort with ambiguity that’s all too common in arthouse-to-mainstream retreads. ‘Goodnight Mommy’ Review: Behind the Mask 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

That bubble is literal: The street in front of their home is blocked by a police car, with officers on duty 24-7, a standard security detail for any former president. How the Obamas managed to become invisible in Washington 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

He’s sitting in an ice bath after working out too hard, the literal chains on his back during push-ups causing him to collapse in pain. ‘The Swimmer’ Review: Tough Competition, In and Out of the Pool 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The George Orwell- and Joseph Goebbels-inspired "Big Lie" that Trump won the 2020 presidential election is now accepted as literal gospel by the many tens of millions of people who belong to the Trump-Republican cult. "Corrosive beliefs are at the heart of what America is": James Tynion on conspiracy theories 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

Anything too literal, or too heroic, risks appearing trite. In the Galleries: Putting the ‘gold’ in ‘Gold Rush’

The show holds no startling revelations — the notebooks are “unknown” only in the most literal sense that they have never been exhibited before. Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Unknown Notebooks’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Another innovation is sportswear, with military detailing from the archives, but nothing too literal from the past in this forward-looking line. In London, All Hail the Suit 2013-06-17T11:37:36Z

What tools — literal and online — are you using to prepare? A Few Questions for Our 52 Places Traveler 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

A meticulous realism transcribes in numbing detail every syllable of classroom conversation, alongside a great daily fuss about printing and stapling — the literal pushing of papers. In Two New Novels, the Trouble Is Academic — and All Too Real 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

A literal “new dawn” marks the beginning of each day as the sun peeks over the ocean vista. In coastal Maine, the perfect pace for self-quarantining 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

The difference in “The Witch” is that climactic combat concludes in midair climax, and that not everyone is cheering at such literal comeuppance. A “final girl” who gets to get off: “The Witch” proves nothing’s scarier than an unapologetically liberated young woman 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

Here’s the literal dream: I was at a record store, looking at a new Rick James album. Let’s Take It to the Page 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

The movement here does not illustrate the words in literal terms. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Four Quartets’ Hits Poetic Heights 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

“People say it’s ‘Seize the day,’ but in actual fact, I heard on the radio completely by chance about six weeks ago that the actual, literal translation is ‘Savor the Day,'” says Dench. Judi Dench, Ciarán Hinds savor their moments in ‘Belfast’ 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

“Sometimes the posters were better than the films. And by making posters that were interpretive as opposed to literal — just showing the movie star — they were encouraging viewers to develop critical thinking and visual literacy.” Hollywood in Havana: Film posters by Cuban graphic artists are love letters to American cinema 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

That’s true in the spiritual sense, but also the literal one. With a new film, Albert Maysles maintains his empathy, and longevity 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Most notably, they regularly incorporate plumage, literal or figurative. Noticed: The Perched, the Frothy, the Fascinator 2011-05-06T17:34:29Z

The season premiere of “The Americans” on Wednesday night began in darkness, literal and metaphoric. ‘The Americans’ Season 4 Premiere: She’d Kill Me 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

References like those — and a digression about the couple’s politics — are oddly literal for a nearly metaphorical story about art and mortality. In San Francisco, a Week of Destination Opera 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Probably Strauss's most colourfully literal and straightforwardly comical work, it nonetheless skewers the underlying message of Cervantes' novel, namely that something beautiful and noble can underlie man's most extravagant follies. Mørk/LPO/Nézet-Seguin – review 2012-11-22T17:44:12Z

Bazin, a great critic and editor—indeed, a great man, who was Truffaut’s literal savior and surrogate father—was also a major theorist with whom Godard wrangled from the start. Godard’s Revolutionary 3-D Film 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

I was much more interested in the less literal connections, where designers seemed to wrestle with Catholicism and connect it to a modern condition. A Trinity of Opinions on the Met’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

They called it jeu de paume, the “game of the palm,” or “handball,” if we want to be less awkwardly literal about it. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

As a teenager, he fashioned literal sound sculptures out of scrap metal: Their windblown clangor, he hoped, would keep insects from his family’s crops. Halim El-Dabh, Composer of Martha Graham Ballets, Dies at 96 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Flamboyantly, the episode uses a literal heavy drumbeat when scoring the production decisions attending the network’s run-up to the Iraq War. “The Loudest Voice” Eviscerates Roger Ailes and Fox News 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z

The installation illuminates the complex, sometimes literal, intersections between art, economics and Spain’s real estate bubble. In Transit Blog: Hans Haacke Show in Madrid Connects Art and Commerce 2012-02-23T17:15:36Z

The account posts stories of liberation, in which women detail their journey to gray, both literal and emotional. Ditched the Dye During Covid? Maybe Stay Gray. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

It’s visual art in the most literal sense. From Polaroids to kid-friendly art, Seattle’s fall art shows have something for everyone 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Perhaps, though not likely, there is some elaborate play on the literal meaning of meunier as “miller,” a mind that grinds fine? Review | A recently discovered document unlocks the mystery of Fragonard 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Glam fashion was an almost literal scream, an embrace of the grotesque that somehow made men dressed as space aliens the new sex symbols. Growing Up Gay to a Glam Rock Soundtrack 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

As her statement acknowledges, Barsha flouts literal perspective and proportion, and assembles flora and fauna as she likes, not as they would necessarily coexist in an actual meadow. Review | In the galleries: Juried competition puts regional artists at center stage 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a web of elegant curves, topped by antlers that are the piece’s most literal aspect. In the galleries: Chinese ink paintings, enhanced with water and words 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

The retrospective has several modest-size sculptures that tend to be fairly literal in their political allusions. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z

Sometimes this is literal, as in the sprightly colored pencil drawing “Study for My Parents and Myself,” made in a hotel room in Paris in 1974. David Hockney: A Life in Drawing 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

But “Eagle” is often overly literal, with the dancers’ gestures matching the soundtrack, giving the piece a stolid air of didacticism. Dance Review: Taking on the Risks of a Mixed Lineup 2011-06-07T22:15:27Z

The creature itself is given perhaps too literal life. Obsession, Mourning and Migration at Under the Radar 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

It’s a film that’s honest, and strikingly literal, about the way men react to threats to their masculinity – with seething resentment, unspoken desire, and violence against women and each other. Boys on film: what we can learn about masculinity from Hollywood 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Aucoin has written a score with shifting tones and feelings, and so Ms. Zimmerman developed an aesthetic vocabulary that is at once literal — “A beach is a beach,” she said — and whimsical. A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The movie is only halfway skeptical of her patronizing attitude and very literal limousine liberalism. A New Adaptation of “Native Son” Reaches the Limits of What the Text Has to Offer 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

The poem's answer, as it evolves, seems to be that Actaeon's metaphysical theft and the literal destruction Diana unleashes are equally necessary "fatal flaws" in the moral scheme. Poem of the week: Actaeon by George Szirtes 2013-07-22T11:16:36Z

Or is this movie really living in a perpetual "Twilight," a literal illustration of a world in which vampires truly can live next door? 'Fright Night' ? silly and strictly for horror fans 2011-08-18T17:52:04Z

At times, Mr. Neumann mirrors his ideas explicitly; the scene in which his pants are pulled down and his legs are wiped clean is too literal, too ordinary. Review: In ‘I Understand Everything Better,’ Ruthless Elemental Forces 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

“You have the idea of this music that’s very hard and durable, but at the same time the literal translation can be seen as a challenge to the idea of building empire through violence.” Antibalas, Afrobeat Band, Hopes for Post-‘Fela!’ Audience 2012-08-06T22:32:17Z

Is Singer based on the literal idea of an engine sound? Singer Vehicle Design 2011-12-29T04:03:48Z

At the Roberto Cavalli presentation, which owed a lot to Jim Morrison in the guise of the Lizard King, a literal crowning touch was provided by Borsalinos with brims as broad as pizzas. Critic?s Notebook: The Cat in the Hat Comes Back 2011-02-02T21:40:03Z

Only a Ryan Murphy show could take an armful of clichés, make them literal, and then make you want to cry about it. "Pose" and the home of the brave 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

A literal cloud of alcohol—or rather, a 3:1 ratio of mixer and alcohol—envelops the installation. A New Bar in London Lets You Breathe in Cocktails 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

For director JK Youn, best known for the 2009 disaster flick "Tidal Wave," the film is a literal ode to his father, who passed away when the director was in college. 'Ode to My Father' stirs the box office and debate in South Korea 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Apple cider vinegar's sweet smell is appealing to gnats, so you can use it to make an easy trap — a literal thirst trap, if you will. How to get rid of gnats, once and for all 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

The aliens’ musings over human biology and its contribution to society are illuminating: The most valuable thing about humanity, they argue, is a literal cancer on the species. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 2: Close encounters of the tentacled kind 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Tempers fray and flare until the situation resembles a literal enactment of a line from William Butler Yeats: “Great hatred, little room.” Movie Review: ?Footnote,? a Satire and Family Drama by Joseph Cedar 2012-03-08T17:16:01Z

The company’s focus on a digital presence makes that literal: All the performances are live-streamed, and as viewers watch online, hyperlinks offer additional information or video. ‘Radicalisation of Bradley Manning’ Hits Home in Edinburgh 2013-08-04T21:20:18Z

Over the course of the episodes leading up to the Season 2 finale, we came to understand the literal and figurative ways in which we were right to be concerned. "Yellowjackets" destroys both the tiger and the cage in its shocking Season 2 finale 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z

On paper, the choice of the 40th struck me as perhaps too well-worn a welcome mat, too literal a return to business as usual. Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra reunite, and it’s a joyful noise 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

This stuff is now repeating on us in the most literal way. But it is a glittery gift that keeps giving: exuberantly daft, and mischievous but affectionate. Your next box set: Harry Hill's TV Burp 2010-07-23T05:45:00Z

In all of them the hypothetical notion of empowerment gives way to the exercise of literal power. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z

It’s what makes her live showings a literal workout as she rolls, splits and slides across the stage with precision. Ciara, a fiery performer desperately in need of better material 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Lately though, such revivals seem shopworn — not to say mindlessly literal. Longing for No Nostalgia 2010-07-30T17:09:00Z

For some it will be literal and for others it will be soul suicide. Writer-activist Kevin Powell says his new memoir tells 'a human story' 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

She concludes “Campaign against the literal” then, in capitals, “ABSTRACTION FOREVER!” Against the Grain: Rebecca Morris and Peter Bradley’s Art ‘About Nothing’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Kick "wasn't interested in a literal interpretation of the text into pictures" from contributors, so he "let them run with it", he said. Western canon to be rewritten as three-volume graphic novel 2012-02-08T15:44:04Z

So much of what one is given to look at seems “basic” in the slang rather than the literal sense of the word. How New York Is New York Fashion? 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

First, when children say they want to kill you or kill themselves at just 6 years old, they usually are not being literal. Can confidence help a child with violent outbursts? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

The contrast encapsulates what Pelosi sees as the double-edged sword of mobile cameras in a film that quickly moves beyond the literal selfie. Film-maker Alexandra Pelosi: 'I think phones are more dangerous than guns' 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

Just one of the four installations in Transformer’s “E15: A Body to Follow” features a literal representation of a person. Review | In the galleries: Even when extravagance is the theme, less can be more 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The diamond seems to be a literal interpretation of the film’s apocalyptic denouement: two great stones collide to become a single form. Lars Von Trier Wants to Turn All His Movies Into Diamonds 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

And in “Bad Blood,” Swift plays a character in a more literal sense, costumed like an assassin and performing elaborate stunts. The 'Bad Blood' Music Video Proves Taylor Swift's Power of Reinvention 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The chaos menu, then, is literal and metaphorical. A new season "The Bear" marinates a great show into a superb exploration of purpose 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

The more literal, visual aspect of the portraits began to disappear, but the notion of immersive sound remained. Dying Languages Cry Out in ‘Last Whispers’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

A literal sex robot becomes the head of a television network. The Only Hollywood Abuser I Want to Hear From Is a Horse 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The bounties are tongue-in-cheek, a comment on different kinds of publicity and how they fuel the art world, but they’re also totally literal—a crass performance of the commercial strings tugging on artists. The Artist Who Guides His Art with Crypto-tokens 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

As with possibly no other composer in musical history, there's a literal and metaphorical universe of sound to explore in Stockhausen's work. A guide to Karlheinz Stockhausen's music 2013-05-07T16:40:45Z

To that end, the glass exterior conveys a literal and conceptual transparency, while the second-floor lobby is bracketed by bars and balconies. Critic’s Notebook: At SFJazz Center, a Genre’s Boundaries Are Flexible 2013-01-26T15:43:57Z

He was a poet who used images to create metaphor not literal truth. “You have naked bodies and genitalia, don’t you? Why are you so adolescent?”: Director Peter Greenaway on “Puritan” Americans and the intense sex scenes in “Eisenstein in Guanajuato” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

In their case the enclosure is literal: a cube the size of a small room. Dance Review: Nichole Canuso Dance Company in ?Takes? - Review 2012-01-08T22:58:16Z

The most literal reinterpretation was the show’s first look: a chalk-white leather cropped jacket and shorts crafted with micro pleats to echo the column’s furrows. Special Report: Fashion: Gabriele Colangelo and Marco de Vincenzo in Milan 2011-09-25T16:48:43Z

I liked the literal idea of women in the driver's seat because, even in our language around women in the driver's seat it's like, “Oh, she's a woman driver.” “No One Tells You This”: That single women aren’t a problem for marriage and kids to fix 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

Majestic nature documentaries abound, but this one focuses on the literal dark side of things, with a lot of night-vision cameras and moody evening predators. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Also featuring a Jamaican dancehall legend, a festival of improvised music and a metal band that creates a literal wall of sound. Your week in Seattle music: Lucinda Williams, Dr. Dog and more 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

"It's very straightforward," she says, "maybe too literal." T Magazine: About Face 2012-11-08T21:30:05Z

At the end they were full of literal questions, preoccupied with the mechanics of dream travel and the inconsistency of making wishes that came true sometimes, but not always. My children are hooked on Faulkner! 2012-12-03T20:30:00Z

Derived from her own photographs, Battenfield’s paintings are realistic yet not literal. Review | In the galleries: A stylish mash-up of Japanese genres and African culture 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

In the tango that followed, what was previously implied in rhythm became literal in exotic-Spain castanets, and the closing tarantella took itself too seriously. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

The Flight of the Bumblebee, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov This is another classical work that kids immediately understand because it is so literal. 10 Pieces of Classical Music Your Toddler will Love 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

If this premise sounds overly literal, just wait: On their ballad-heavy journey to their final destination, the five must first sort through their “baggage.” ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Standby’ 2013-07-24T16:21:19Z

The title, also the name of a Simon and Garfunkel song, is quite literal. How Edgar Wright used music to transform the heist movie with ‘Baby Driver’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

The doomed youthful protagonists must make their way through Warsaw’s labyrinthine sewer, which is a literal translation of the title and an existential statement. Remembering Andrzej Wajda, Unflinching Observer of Modern Poland 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

It made literal just what he is trying to do: make people uncomfortable. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z

“Hand/Eye” refers to a craftsman’s ability to coordinate dexterity and vision, but in this case it also refers to the literal hands that protrude from surrealistic ceramic collages. Review | In the galleries: Matt Wilt wields a deft hand for his ceramic creations 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Sun Ra’s art in all forms offers this challenge to Black people: If we’re nothing, if we’re just myths, why not make that literal, why not make it material?” she writes. Earth Couldn’t Contain Sun Ra’s Ideas. His Arkestra Is Still Exploring Them. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

And in the ingeniously evocative “Ties,” the Russian animator Dina Velikovskaya shows how a daughter leaving for college can be the literal thread that unravels the life she has left behind. ‘Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Mix of Whimsy and Dread 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

At the literal level, Herman Melville’s great American novel is all about the sinking of a ship, shattered by a great white whale. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z

Mr. Robinson’s work is a somewhat literal interpretation, but impressive nonetheless. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, 4 Shows Engage a Cultural Conversation 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Hundreds of homeless people live in Las Vegas flood channels – the city’s literal underbelly. Homeless below the Las Vegas Strip: where city's vices exist in the shadows 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

And he has enlisted the choreographer Joshua Bergasse to summon the mood of Robbins’s style without literal imitation. Theater Review: In ‘On the Town,’ Sailors on Leave Look for Love 2013-06-19T21:10:16Z

“The Blue Touch Paper” takes its title from the British term for something used to light fireworks, whether literal or metaphorical. David Hare’s political stages 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Purists may see this as a musical violation – but, while the effects are sometimes too loud and too literal, it makes for a gripping theatrical spectacle. Cinderella ? review 2010-12-10T17:26:00Z

Logan’s script, alternately poetic and overly literal, meanders through time and space, and ends on the obvious note that neither fame nor innocence shield against war, aging and loss. London theater, 2013: Not a bargain, but the real deal 2013-05-08T21:15:06Z

This is the most literal definition of a lobster salad, in which cold lobster meat tossed with mayonnaise, lemon juice, and celery is tucked into bibb lettuce "cups." 14 best lobster recipes for summertime flavor now 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

The saying “you are what you eat” may soon become a lot more literal. Grow-your-own human steaks meal kit is not 'technically' cannibalism, makers say 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

The exteriors were a literal restoration executed under the supervision of the Head Architect for Historic Monuments at Versailles. How Do You Add to Versailles? Bravely 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

It was a pointillist way to experience a show — an almost literal call and response. Watching My Mother Watch Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

One feels sympathy for both sides – and perhaps simultaneously a plague on both their houses – because Dawkins seems so bullishly literal, and Williams so softly evasive. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z

These "other ideas", hinted at in the title, refer to a literal mythology within the Alien world. Prometheus: the making of a new myth 2012-05-25T23:01:00Z

No doubt it’s all the soot, which is both a literal fact of life in the Glasgow of the late 1950s and a metaphor for the morally compromised atmosphere that blankets the area: Denise Mina looks inside the mind of a psychopath in her chilling novel ‘The Long Drop’ 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Endless verbal combats are recounted, and literal ones as well. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

But also like Devi, Sydney encounters a more literal shadow, or a ghost, some dark figure who stalks her. Now on Netflix: Portraits of Grief With Unplanned Relevance 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

And at the campaign school many of the students were frustrated that the Dress to Win session seemed to focus on literal dresses, as opposed to personal identity. It’s 2018: You Can Run for Office and Not Wear a Pantsuit 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

In other words, Vegas is still bleeding visitors dry, only now the exsanguination is literal. ‘Army of the Dead’ Review: Thieving Las Vegas 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

I like stories that keep this dialogue—between myth and substrate, figurative and literal—open and follow the two as they interact. Greg Jackson on the Dialogue Between Myth and Reality 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Some of these carry the sting of satire, especially those that you suspect are close to the literal truth. | 'The Time That Remains': In Nazareth, Human Comedy as Wind Rustles the Olive Branches 2011-01-06T23:52:20Z

Though the literal space that Washington’s piece, “Harmony of Difference,” occupies is small compared to some of the other works on display — a shooting guard amongst centers — figuratively there was nothing bigger. Whitney Biennial 2017: Kamasi Washington collaboration is first among the big, the boundless and the beautiful 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

On “Far In,” these themes are a little less literal. Helado Negro at the End of the World 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

His nods to Drake are both literal and winking. Bryson Tiller and Other Singers Are Bringing Hip-Hop Into R&B 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Given the literal expressions of past themes, though, you may also expect a lot of red, white and blue, some star-spangled stripiness and a Lady Liberty or two. Everything You Need to Know About the Met Gala 2021 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, I didn't know Francis Bacon, so I can't tell whether the story Maybury tells us is true, in the literal sense. Love Is the Devil – read the original review 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z

Even the name, “Talk About Good!,” is a Cajun phrase, which evolved as a literal translation of the Cajun French expression “parles de bon.” How a 50-year-old community cookbook became a mainstay in almost every Cajun kitchen 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

This paints a much less literal picture than deep-seeded, which helps explain why deep-seeded-versus-deep-seated is one of many word usage mistakes that even smart people make. 11 commonly misheard phrases that actually make sense 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

Examples, please, for those of us who are too literal to correctly interpret this adjective. To Pair With That Thanksgiving Bird, Consider Beer 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

His heroic decision, the townspeople say, In a literal way kept the water at bay. Style Invitational Week 1436: Haven’t seen it — new plots for movie titles 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

“And in animation, we’re not literal. You’re trying to find the essence of the character. We always felt that the audience needed to know right away, visually, that this guy is stronger than anybody else.” How (and Why) Maui Got So Big in ‘Moana’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

The literal clears of the throat come from the narrator, Ron Howard, whose gentle coughs make a promising opening for the first episode, winking, in that distinctively Arrested Development way, at the audience. Arrested Development recap: season four, episodes 1-5 2013-05-26T15:37:26Z

Receipts are a commodity in this world — not literal receipts that are printed after a purchase, but metaphorical receipts in the form of digital records that are supposed to prove innocence or guilt. James Charles, From ‘CoverBoy’ to Canceled 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

“As a songwriter, her abstract poetry mixed with a literal mind is just unbelievable,” she said. Allison Russell Faces Her Past in Song 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The abbey’s facade features a very literal Jacob’s Ladder — with angels going up … and down. Bath’s easy urban delights 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Every character in the book is in a prison, literal or figurative. Review: ‘Time of the Locust,’ by Morowa Yejidé√

One such riddle relies on synonyms and homonyms, requiring the solver to climb through both literal and metaphorical definitions to arrive at the eventual answer: poetry itself. What Has One Eye and 1,200 Heads? An Old English Riddle, That’s What! 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

The most spectacularly literal offering is “WetLand,” a floating installation by Mary Mattingly on the Delaware River. ‘The Adults’ and ‘99 Breakups’ at the FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

We talk about it in more allegorical terms rather than in literal terms. "Dead to Me" creator on the show's secret to success: "I'm interested in genre-nonconforming" 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z

This six-times-a-year showground fair in rural Somerset could hardly have been a more literal embodiment of the “grass roots” of Britain’s antiques trade, far removed from the glitter of London’s international auction houses and dealers. British Art Fairs: One Country, but Worlds Apart 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

By attacking my father's "rationalism" he was also expressing a deep, Protestant fear: call the literal interpretation of the Bible into doubt and God's word becomes incoherent. Anne Boleyn and the theatre of reformation 2011-07-08T21:55:13Z

And then there’s “Galway Girl,” an almost hilariously literal take on Irish-inflected pop not seen since the Corrs two decades ago. Review: Ed Sheeran’s Secret Weapon on ‘Divide’? Being Unabashedly Uncool 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

But that’s one reason we have drama: to make emotional, if not literal, sense of this kind of figure. On TV, the Truth Hurts 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

She also made a literal splash when her victory in the Best Female category apparently surprised her mid-swallow, causing her to spit out a mouthful of champagne. Miley Tokes — And 3 Other EMA Highlights 2013-11-11T16:41:32Z

While Im took an abstract route with his clothes, hair and makeup pulled more literal cues from the world of athletics. | Siki Im 2012-02-12T19:55:05Z

But there were literal brass instruments, bells up and held high, at the official opening of the Shed on Friday night. The Shed Opens: What Our Critics Think 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

This book is the brilliant fulfillment of that commitment, and through it, Laymon achieves another goal: “to become a person, not just an author, worthy of forgiveness and risk from literary and literal friends.” Kiese Laymon Revisits Some Early Essays, and Reclaims His Voice 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

“These lyrics are an artist’s creative expression and not a literal recounting of facts and circumstances,” the motion read. California makes it harder to use lyrics as evidence against rappers 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

"The song is very literal, especially that first verse," Adkins said. Trace Adkins really is "Proud To Be Here" 2011-08-03T21:54:43Z

A literal ghost appears in “The Quick and the Dead” — too voluble and abrasive to be an alcoholic hallucination, though she may also be that. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Those who rolled their eyes at the bombastic agenda of “Witness” will find plenty to say about the image of Katy Perry donning a literal clown suit in the midst of a global catastrophe. Gerard Way Sneers at the Apocalypse, and 12 More New Songs 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

In the literal sense, it tells the story of 24 hours in the life of a Glaswegian woman, Helen, who works night shifts in a casino. James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z

We’re talking about the literal home of power, and a good chunk of the people who make our world what it is call it their office. Groovy Gigs: Top 10 TV Offices We'd Want to Work In 2012-06-22T10:45:26Z

Derek’s own way with words was at once epic and immediate, physical, literal, abstract, lyrical, guttural. The Problem with Poetry Students, and Other Lessons from Derek Walcott 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

But if you can't bring in a contractor for a literal window, a large landscape photo or painting give the eye a place to wander. 11 expert tricks for making a small room look bigger 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

“Third what” is the literal translation of “Tertium Quid,” the Latin phrase that provides the title of the three-artist show at the Korean Cultural Center. Review | In the galleries: Photos capture a fleeting moment, leave an indelible impression 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Is the process illustrated in an insultingly literal sequence? The new Nestlé advert 2012-11-10T00:05:47Z

It’s a literal translation of the Chinese word for heaven, or the afterlife. Writers on the Titles They Didn’t Use 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

While Mr. Polanski’s films are generally not self-revealing in any literal sense, he invites psychobiographical criticism because he has been, for almost his entire career, that relatively rare entity: a celebrity director. 2010-02-12T18:53:00Z

The title sets out both the metaphorical and literal position of the absconding woman. Poem of the week: Interstate by Anne-Marie Fyfe 2011-04-11T09:39:57Z

Mr. Preljocaj is too experienced a choreographer to be entirely literal in his depiction of the narrative, but he isn’t too far off. Critic’s Notebook: Dominique Hervieu Leads Her First Lyon Dance Biennial 2012-09-18T22:30:06Z

“The Gathering Storm” is meant to be a metaphorical title as well as a literal. “The Circus” host calls Steve Bannon’s propaganda film “a cinematic reach-around” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

A little over eight years later, on Nov. 5, they selected matching Forever Sweet Nothing Bracelets to be welded around their respective wrists — a literal bond to celebrate their emotional one. Move Over, Diamonds. These Bracelets Are Forever, Too. 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Still, she wanted her painting to be more iconic than literal, she said. Angela Merkel’s Humanity, Captured in an Elizabeth Peyton Oil 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

Whitehead’s boldly inventive novel follows Cora, a slave in Georgia making her escape to freedom on a literal underground railroad. Paperback Row 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

After she met Weinstein and he expressed interest in her acting potential, she believed, because of her religious background, she said, that meeting him was a literal blessing. Weinstein trial: key witness gives powerful testimony on alleged rape 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The effect is to conjure splendid dawns, without depicting any literal aspect of sun or sky. Review | In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Sometimes this expression is metaphorical as opposed to literal. “Who Is America?” and “Big Brother” separately and together illuminate our racial divide 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

The production has been handsomely designed, with period costumes by Cait O’Connor, evoking the time in which it takes place without being overly literal. Theater Review: ?The Witch of Edmonton?: A Supernatural Subject with Human Urges 2011-02-04T17:00:53Z

The fictional conceit is that the Earth exudes a substance called exotic matter, perhaps the most literal name for a science-fiction element since “Avatar” gave us “unobtanium.” Ingress, a Mobile Game From Google 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Seales is a one-woman show in the most literal sense; sitting across a couch from her, the space somehow feels crowded. Amanda Seales was always ‘Smart Funny and Black.’ Finally, everyone else sees it. 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

But it was all under this banner of the Bible as the literal word of God — every period, every comma. Samuel D. Hunter Climbs the Ladder With ‘The Whale’ 2012-10-21T03:00:19Z

The album title is neither ironic nor literal. Inside David Byrne’s Cheerful Dystopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Drawing equivalence between fantasy species and real-life minorities turns imaginary differences into literal ones. Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

It's this weird conversation where people will be like, "I know I believe in the literal version of the Bible." Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

The practice, they say, takes rules aimed at preserving old architecture to their literal, and absurd, extreme. Stars battle to save Smithfield market 2013-07-20T23:06:02Z

Sometimes they are a taken-for-granted part of the landscape, their chairs blending into a wide-angle view of the crowd; sometimes they’re godlike, on a literal pedestal and shot from the ground. Three Decades of Lifeguards at New York’s Jones Beach 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

In one infamous instance, a family affair proves to be too literal. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Dallas’ 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

Taken in late-afternoon natural light, the photographs exude an otherworldly atmosphere that reflects the family's self-contained, and occasionally magical, existence on the literal and metaphorical edge of a modern European city. The Garden: Alessandro Imbriaco photographs one family's exile to Eden 2013-02-15T12:27:38Z

The prose poems of “Illuminations” defy literal interpretation, and it’s best to sit back and let the hallucinogenic images swirl over and around you. Review: ‘Rimbaud in New York’ Splices the Genes of the Original Outlaw Artist 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

The literal meaning and the enthralling promise of the phrase “held to account” is that one might open the books and force a settlement. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Rachel Held Evans did this in her "Year of Biblical Womanhood" book, where she's like, "How literal is literal?" Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Go beyond cinnamon rolls for breakfast and instead, serve literal sunshine. Too many lemons? 38 recipes to make right now 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

Some people will see the literal thing, others will read it as a metaphor.” Edward Watson and Arthur Pita Create ‘The Metamorphosis’ 2013-08-30T20:48:52Z

In the first, called “Fever,” the meaning is both literal and figurative. ‘Breathe’ Review: A Pandemic Musical That Strains to Surprise 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

But given art’s recent turn toward the figurative, the literal, and the narrative, I too often find myself hankering for art that doesn’t try to tell me things. Against the Grain: Rebecca Morris and Peter Bradley’s Art ‘About Nothing’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Even seeing it, in a literal sense, is difficult: The imagery crosses the line that separates “atmospherically dark” from “murk.” ‘No One Gets Out Alive’ Review: Seeking Shelter, Finding Terror 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

But the new “Justice” is an album of literal worship songs that is impressive, almost daring, in its single-minded focus on Bieber’s wife, model Hailey Baldwin Bieber, and, more opaquely, God. Review | What does ‘Justice’ mean to Justin Bieber? 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Actually, it’s both — or, rather, this episode is so over-the-top symbolic, it’s practically literal. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Watch: This Symbolism Does Not Compute 2014-05-05T15:16:14Z

“Quixotic in the literal sense. This ridiculously absurd effort to do something in an environment that’s so hostile to art.” How Much Hip Can the Desert Absorb? 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

There's a temptation to read Riddley Walker as, precisely, a riddle – to think that by matching every element to a literal antecedent, you might be able to weasel out the truth of the book. Why Riddley Walker rivals the Passion as the perfect Easter story 2013-04-01T09:00:02Z

In this episode "gay panic" is shown as a literal rash that both cops and medical professionals are, as of now, attributing to cat scratch fever. "AHS: NYC" has too many villains 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

There's also the literal humming of their mobiles: halfway through the photo shoot their single goes up on their website and the iPhone chirrups intensify. The Strokes: no Spinal Tap 2011-02-27T00:03:00Z

Second, so what if a literal cartoon was written as white, at one point, and is now being reimagined? In defense of an East-Asian Velma in new HBO show 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

In “Skin,” one of Dahl’s New Yorker efforts, an old man reveals that he has been tattooed by a famous artist, now long deceased, only to lose his skin in the most literal sense. Roald Dahl’s Twisted, Overlooked Stories for Adults 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

And then with a literal bang, a shower of dollar bills came raining down over the crowd. Rihanna kidnapped me to watch her new video: A diary 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

In the movie, Reynolds sweeps his clumsy Cinderella into a world of opulent dresses, extravagant dinners and literal princesses. Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson on How They Created ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

My husband is extremely literal, too, operates on his own wavelength, and also is immensely kind and considerate. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend has a heart of gold, but how practical is a heart of gold? 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

She feels nothing, because Lady Lisa is all but a literal object. Adam Sandler is finished: Why “Pixels” may be his last gasp of crude misogyny 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

What Southerland set out to explore, however, was not the substance of history painting, but its literal ingredients. In the galleries: Works on paper at Marsha Mateyka Gallery 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Part of this may be the literal balancing acts performed by the sculptures’ combined parts. Art Review: ‘Calder: The Complete Bronzes’ at L&M Arts 2012-11-08T22:38:37Z

Now, that might not be a literal policy, but it nevertheless seems evident that WB wants the DC Cinematic Universe to be the antithesis of the lighter, more humorous Marvel Cinematic Universe. WB Should Worry Less About Making DC Movies 'Edgy' And More About Making Them Unique 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

This week’s performer is Robin Bady, a storyteller who will offer tales of jungles, both literal and urban. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 16-22 2013-08-15T22:37:20Z

There are literal ghosts in this book — the spirits of wronged girls and women. Women on the Scottish Coast, at the Whims of Male Violence 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

In a program note, Heartbeat’s young leaders express their desire “to birth productions that tackle urgent questions confronting our society today—questions of otherness, misogyny, cultural appropriation, and crossing borders both literal and metaphysical.” The Trailblazing Efforts of “Indie Opera” 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

This was no France-centric mistake: In place of a normal, more or less literal translation, Godard supplies a sort of complementary keyword text at the bottom of the screen. Cannes: Godard, still alive and still baffling 2010-05-18T15:30:00Z

He decided to look at the subject sideways, veering from the literal as a way to liberate himself from his anxiety about the subject. Pablo Larraín on His Latest Films, ‘Jackie’ and ‘Neruda’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lozano-Hemmer’s talent is making philosophical ideas somehow literal — the abstract becomes weirdly real, or real with a surreal edge. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Is a Crowd Pleaser. He’s Also Obsessed With Death. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

The villain, PT Westmorland, with his faux-Victorian style, is as literal an embodiment of the patriarchy as it is possible to get. Goodbye to Orphan Black, the feminist utopia 2017 needs 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

One seemed like a literal trap–the door locks itself shut. My trigger-warning disaster: “9 1/2 Weeks,” “The Wire” and how coddled young radicals got discomfort all wrong 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Her “Flag Twist” is less literal than Batista’s take on the U.S. standard: All in white, it substitutes small holes for stripes and large ones for stars. In the galleries: Photos that take twists and turns at Civilian Art Projects 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

It’s deployed as the Act 1 finale, and the lyrics are used as such a literal guideline that one of the characters is actually “nibblin’ on spongecake” as the number begins. Review | Jimmy Buffett’s music comes to Broadway and, well, the beach party’s a dud 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Are the group’s lyrics reports of literal desires? Arts & Leisure Preview: Angry Rhymes, Dirty Mouth, Goofy Kid 2011-05-04T11:00:08Z

Wyatt is a British director who makes his first Hollywood foray here with mixed results, but "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" starts with a literal bang. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes": Can James Franco make peace with chimps? 2011-08-03T21:30:00Z

It made the tiny town famous overnight, in the most literal sense. 'Pretty accurate': S-Towners are proud to be podcasted – except for a few things 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

The first death by chainsaw has a certain Evil Dead quality to it, but I’ve got to go with the literal bible-bashing. Preacher recap: season one, episode two – See 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

As Princess Bean skips out on a royal marriage arranged by her loutish dad, the first episode ends on a literal cliffhanger. From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

The sweeping can also be literal, as in a double duet for which two of the four dancers wield push brooms. Dance Review: ‘Astral Converted’ by Trisha Brown at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-11T22:05:08Z

Maybe that’s why “Doris” is an album filled with reluctance, literal and structural. Earl Sweatshirt and ASAP Ferg, Hip-Hop Progressives 2013-08-15T16:50:54Z

But the finale, in which blood rivalries are redressed in an absurdly literal manner, fatally strains credulity. ‘The World Made Straight’ Adapts a Ron Rash Novel 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

He found a tourist company that arranged for him to stay with three different Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and the novel's setting became "almost entirely literal". William Sutcliffe: 'It was so much more brutal than I thought it could be' 2013-04-02T07:00:01Z

“Not too literal,” she said, “but the journey of the story is Claire’s quest for herself: independent, not connected to men, just stepping forward, and she winds up in this brave and transcendent place.” In ‘Flesh and Bone,’ Moira Walley-Beckett Leaps Darkly Into Ballet 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

The fairy-tale twist in “Grimm” is less literal and, depending on your taste, more clever or just plain silly. Television Review: ?Grimm? on NBC and ?Once Upon a Time? on ABC - Review 2011-10-22T00:00:17Z

Basil is its own animal, which should be treated like a literal bouquet of flowers. Fresh herbs: How to extend their fleeting shelf life for long-lasting, bright flavor and color 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Not only were there long stretches during which nothing happens, but the book is open to many interpretations, literal and metaphorical. ‘Life of Pi’ Is New Ang Lee Film, Based on Yann Martel Tale 2012-09-09T03:43:02Z

“Snowflakes,” these notes were called, because there were so many of them, swirling around the Pentagon, a literal paper trail of Rumsfeld’s effort to be precise. Perspective | ‘Nothing ever ends’: Sorting through Rumsfeld’s knowns and unknowns 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

The following Pianissimo movement breathes tranquility, with a literal singing line, again featuring wordless crooning by Gabetta. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

He was the hero of a series of didactic stories by Horatio Alger, about a shoeshine boy who goes from literal rags to riches through hard work and clean living. REVIEW: Boardwalk Empire Watch: Golden Boy 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Van Gogh’s painting is a kind of leitmotif throughout the film, even materializing as a literal hallucination by the main characters. Filmmaker Paul Dalio mines his bipolar disorder for feature debut 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

These pictures are the show’s least literal, and most substantial. In the galleries: Deconstruction that’s carefully constructed 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

The literal picture of an enormous united front is among the fastest, most efficient ways to demonstrate solidarity with a cause during a time when photographs have increasingly become the currency of global communication. Wearing Red Takes on New Meaning in Russia 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

On their frolics through the park, Gatsby develops literal puppy love for New York as only romantic newcomers can. The Surprising Compassion of “High Maintenance” 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

A neurodivergent, highly literal spouse might innocently fail to grasp that you value your freedom to go uncorrected above loading the dishwasher correctly. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How can you tell if you’re being over-criticized or overly sensitive? 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

The tale of Ginty and her dad is thick with dubious sentiment and leavened with glimmers of sensitive wisdom, but the light it casts on the grown-up Mrs. Travers is harshly literal. Movie Review: ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ With Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson 2013-12-12T15:00:18Z

Such palavering is wasted time for a woman facing a literal deadline. ‘Emilie’ Review: Defending, and Defining, a Life 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Not magic as a result of an audience’s experience but physical, literal alchemy on the screen that was somehow similar to things we’ve seen before but somehow also very different. A Word With: Steven Spielberg 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

The set bespeaks a certain literal mindedness, and indeed the stage picture often looks as if it could serve to illustrate the printed text. Opera Review: This Version of Massenet's 'Cendrillon' Fits Just Right 2011-07-12T13:00:05Z

“The Waverly Gallery” is his most literal presentation of that inadequacy. Review: Elaine May Might Break Your Heart in ‘Waverly Gallery’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

It initially seems like an invitation for Don to reprise the rhetorical greatness of seasons past and point the way forward after a convulsive decade of battle in matters business, marital and literal. 'Mad Men' Recap: Don Draper's Gettysburg Address 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

For the other two members of the household, the disease is literal. Review: A Shorter ‘Long Day’s Journey,’ Now With N95s 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

Obviously, the show's recreation of a church is not literal – there are no priests, no services – but it does vividly convey the atmosphere of a Renaissance church. Display of devotion: see the light at the National Gallery altar 2011-08-11T16:01:31Z

“People go through the literal and figurative inventory of their pasts and emotions in a healthy way, to build for the future they envision for themselves.” Marie Kondo would like to tidy up your relationships — and your office, too 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

We were regaled with literal interpretations of the Bible. My Steubenville 2013-03-28T00:00:00Z

Many projections are too coldly literal and too far removed from the action to aid it properly. Review: This Revival of Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ Misses Its Mark 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

A more literal kind of meat is featured in December at the club’s annual Carnivorous Nights taxidermy contest, a raucous festival of applied zoology. Secret Science Club, Nerd Nite and Other Barroom Education 2012-01-05T18:20:29Z

The other, a former soccer star, is called Injured in Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Wheeler’s beautifully rendered English version; a more literal translation would be Traumatized. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

We weren’t doing a literal version of the song. ‘Sgt. Pepper at 50’ Artists on How the Beatles’ Album Inspired Them 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

I’m much more literal about a lot of these things. Q&A: Leonardo DiCaprio and Adam McKay dare you to look up 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

But must a director be so literal about it? Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

But however many he deems reasonable to have in his possession, he's selling what might be a literal ton, a storage unit's worth, a small record store's inventory. Seattle DJ B-Mello's record collection on eBay 2011-12-30T18:58:15Z

On the studio recording of “Emotions,” Carey arrives, miraculously, at a high G, all those octaves up the scale, during a run at the end of the word—and why wouldn’t this be literal?—“high.” Mariah Carey’s Rather Perfect Farewell to 2016 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Of course, this is no run-of-the-mill Paddington Bear; covered in lustrous black tar and awash in bright light, the sculpture glows as a literal beacon of high fashion. Art and Fashion Intersect in Bergdorf Goodman's Windows 2014-02-21T05:00:00Z

Lisa Oppenheim, an American photographer, collages a looted still life and occluded satellite imagery of the Parisian house from which it was stolen — a literal fogging over of well-known victims. In ‘Afterlives,’ About Looted Art, Why Are the Victims an Afterthought? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

A few of these, like “Satan Is Happy With Your Progress,” have moved the overly literal to shove angry notes under his door. Frame: City Views From Q Train and Other Unexpected Urban Art 2012-01-05T23:26:55Z

“These people get a weirdly wonderful Shreveport-Bossier hug when they get here. It’s a figurative and literal embrace.” Festivals thrive and grow by remaining unique 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The painfully literal definition of the term “woke” and snooze-worthy answers like caffeine, melatonin, and the alertness aid capsule “No Doz,” crushed any hopes of addressing social justice issues. “Jeopardy!” features a “stay woke” category, entire internet cringes 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

The literal answer is given by a saucy-faced angel holding a panel, which explains in Latin that “as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up.” From Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

The conclusion of Episode 4 is particularly haunting as you see how Billy becomes a literal celebrity, hanging out with celebrities and playing an active role in developing movies about him. "Monsters Inside" examines how a criminal's claims of dissociative identity disorder made him a star 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

It is a piece of received wisdom – the old yin and yang cliche – made devastatingly literal. From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D Daskalopoulos Collection – review 2012-12-23T00:06:37Z

The pencil-on-paper drawings of the 1940s, such as "Love Letter," surprise merely by being so literal and sweet. Review: Howard House's second Henry show offers a window onto artist's emergence 2010-03-15T04:01:00Z

By the end, at least one character has faced his demons, literal and figurative. ‘Demons’ Review: Grief Is the Thing With Red Fur 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Inspiration, be it taken from another work of art or from nature, is a lot more ephemeral than such literal renderings suggest.  When musicians risk painting themselves into corners 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

They may be literal: History channel is history, Comedy Central does comedy. NBC Wants to Be Netflix. Netflix Wants to Be NBC. 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

With Javi dead, every bit of security, financial and literal, that the Byrdes had accumulated for themselves goes up in smoke. "Ozark" is back to close out its final season 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

“We were looking for something to do about our neighborhood in the literal sense and in walks this musical,” said Nicola. La Vie Boheme: ‘Rent’ musical celebrates 25th anniversary 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

Ten minutes later and both Hopkins and Del Toro have completed their transformation into Wolfmen and are tearing literal strips from each other. The Wolfman: Del Toro and Hopkins sink their teeth into each other 2010-07-13T12:08:00Z

The influence was loose rather than literal: a handful of shells here, some raffia there, a flat sandal with every outfit. Paris Fashion Week Collections from Kenzo, Isabel Marant and Acne 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

This time, he said, he plans to take a less literal and “more abstract” approach, using new laser-based diamond cutting technology. Lars Von Trier Wants to Turn All His Movies Into Diamonds 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

The teenagers at the center of Sathian’s debut novel drink literal gold in a desperate attempt to fit in as children of immigrants. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Even in the basic visual construction of images, El Greco continually creates small fissures and cleavages that compel the viewer to set aside literal reading. El Greco is focus of two U.S. shows on 400th anniversary of his death

In art historical terms, this refers to what historian Erwin Panofsky called “disguised symbols,” which are objects intentionally inserted into artworks for their symbolic, not their literal, value. Statue of Liberty: Still America’s national icon? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

But as a psychological dance drama, “Touché” was overly literal; that stunted its power. Review: What Does Ballet Need Now? Not Retro Fantasy. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Velleman writes: When adoptees go in search of their biological parents and siblings, there is a literal sense in which they are searching for themselves. Do abandoned children have the right to know their origins? 2013-02-10T16:00:00Z

An inventory of more than two hundred years of homicide, the book is a literal whodunit, not a whytheydunit and barely a whattheydun. The Indispensable Guide to Early American Murder 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Yet in a recent telephone interview with Billboard, the lyric is taking on another, more literal meaning, as M.I.A. travels on a Eurostar train from Brussels to London during a hectic round of European promotion. M.I.A. steps from art underground to media spotlight 2010-06-12T23:51:00Z

Excess protein just gets excreted from our bodies as waste, making it a literal waste! What’s for dinner? Protein — and its large water footprint 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

This version by British playwright David Edgar, from a literal translation by Desiree Kongered McDougall, has modernized and changed Ibsen's language, removing many references to the inner "demons and trolls" that plague the architect. Review: Spirited, sexy version of 'Master Builder' 2013-05-20T23:43:09Z

I mean it in a far more simple, literal way. Box office: Has summer moviegoing gone unbearably ADD? 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

The documentary format would have restricted me to a quite literal approach to this particular crime. "Saint Omer" examines the darkest maternity taboos and the "language of the accused" 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

His translation is literal — he responds to the five colors on Mondrian’s canvas with five vocal and instrumental groupings — and yet not derivative. When art sings: How paintings have fared on the musical and opera stage

Sometimes, too, she has used it as an instrument in a more literal sense — the main point of her most recent album, “Speaking in Tongues.” Jazz Listings for Oct. 28-Nov. 3 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Female leaders in search of a sartorial model need look no further than this gown: power dressing at its most literal. Inside Queen Elizabeth II’s Wardrobe 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Pro tip: Pay attention to the mentions of wallpaper, which provide a literal backdrop for arguments about taste, aesthetics and mass-production in Victorian society. Top 10 Non-Dickens Books for Dickens Fans 2012-02-05T20:06:36Z

“It was Gloria Steinem fan fiction in the most literal sense.” Meet Captain Marvel: Fighter Pilot, Feminist and Marvel's Big Gamble 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Perhaps revealingly, I find the plays I've enjoyed most are the ones that take a less literal approach to the evidence, such as Ron Hutchison's wry Durand's Line or David Edgar's chilling Black Tulips. In pursuit of US theatre's past perfect 2010-12-22T12:45:04Z

Comparisons with the urban present are also painfully literal. An Awkward Trek Through Time at the Penn Museum 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

I'm a very simple person and kind of literal in a real dead tone kind of way. "Don't overthink it": James Beard winner Kelly Fields shares expert pie baking tips for the holidays 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z

But while the film highlights new voices, directions for the trade and younger generations, Romney emphasized that that vision is more aspirational than literal. 'It cuts across time': a peek into the world of antiquarian books 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Using drone footage, the film illustrates both the literal proximity and the figurative distance of France’s haves and have-nots. ‘Les Misérables’ is a film about France and race. Its creators hope it can resonate in America. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Hunter says houseplants are a great entree to the natural world — plus, they bring literal life into your home. During a pandemic, the outdoors is the safest place you can be. But what if you hate nature? 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

So here she is again with her Cirque du Soleil extras, performing a quite literal version of "Glitter in the Air" and wearing not much more than nylon straps. 2010-02-01T13:03:00Z

Some cartoonists draw our Commander-in-Chief in grotesque fashion, some creepily infantile; once, he was depicted as a literal dumpster fire. Trump in 2018: A Cartoon Review 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The zombie metaphor becomes literal: zombies are not just like ostracized minorities, this particular zombie already was an ostracized minority. “In The Flesh”: a suicidal, gay, post-zombie story 2013-06-06T19:11:00Z

At its most literal level, “Knight of Cups” is an encyclopedia of its protagonist’s love affairs, casual and serious, painful and frolicsome, blonde and brunette. Review: In ‘Knight of Cups,’ a Writer’s Flesh Is Willing but His Spirit Is Weak 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

David Lynch and Mark Frost are captivated by dualities, whether they’re giving their characters literal doppelgängers or they’re exploring the extremes of good and evil within humanity as a whole. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 13: Starting Position 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

Wandering may be a very literal way to avoid staking out a position. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

Radiantly still passages suggestive of heavenly peace sat cheek by jowl with dancing, almost angry, settings of Buddhisttexts, and delightfully literal imitations of the shofar or ram's horn in the "Jewish" movement. Jonathan Harvey obituary 2012-12-05T21:16:32Z

The symbolism of a big apple for the Big Apple was so literal that the wit landed dead on arrival. ‘Times Square, 1984,’ at the Skyscraper Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

I do hope in the repeat performances that familiarity authorizes a bit more force in the delivery — the uncertainty at its core at times found too literal an expression. Review | Yan Pascal Tortelier and the NSO find their own voices in ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

In a literal sense, it’s “cosmic American music.” Lou Barlow: “The thing that I equate most with Beck is generosity” 2014-02-26T00:32:00Z

Mr. Swing prefers not to get too literal about the influences of his curvaceous designs. Newly Minted Work by a Change Artist 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

Then, as Don said to Harry, the parallel symbolism becomes practically literal when Roger and his daughter stare at the sky. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Watch: This Symbolism Does Not Compute 2014-05-05T15:16:14Z

Themes recur, motifs overlap; characters from different stories grapple with similar concerns: time, impermanence, literal and metaphorical weight. Books of The Times: ‘American Innovations’ by Rivka Galchen 2014-05-07T20:15:28Z

The word’s literal meaning is “something for something,” and it is defined as “something given or received for something else.” A Quid-Pro-Quo Mystery 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

The "dark" in dark academia is represented by literal shadows and artfully-arranged skulls and daggers, evoking a sense of memento mori, an undercurrent of loss and threat. Dark Academia and debt: University thrillers are the literary subgenre of the student loan crisis 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

It’s lightweight and literal, and it’s a joy to watch C.M. attack it. ‘Biography of X’ Rewrites a Life Story and an American Century 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

A few literal fireworks were set off this week; the metaphorical ones are sure to follow. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 11: The Doctor Is In 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

We investigated and were incredibly literal, down to the timing. How we made: Peter Sellars and William Christie on Theodora 2012-08-27T18:00:03Z

Here, Johnson’s use is fairly literal, describing government actions that he saw as not only politically advisable — passing a civil rights bill and a medical-assistance plan for the elderly — but also morally justified. How ‘politically correct’ went from compliment to insult 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The name of the game is “Escape Room” — a literal description for a complicated endeavor. Why are ‘escape room’ adventures so popular? If you need a hint, read this. 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Yet choreographic details overload the piece as it wears on, and Ms. Silvers’s method of mirroring Hitchcock’s scenic development to her dancers, literal or not, can be just as debilitating as clever. Review: ‘Actual Size Plus,’ Sally Silvers’s Hitchcock-Inspired Work 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Cole’s book seems to ask, finally, what if we took Calvin’s comment about the splinters of the True Cross not as an indictment of fraudulent religious souvenirs but somehow as a literal fact? Teju Cole uses his camera and his writing to pry open the cities he visits in 'Blind Spot' 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Though their family attended church sporadically in North Carolina, Adeem began to pine for religion in New York, hoping for a kind of literal instruction manual for life. Adeem the Artist, Crafting a Country Music of Their Own 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

“Cable TV news has an influence today that is outsized to the literal audience that is watching it,” said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute. Perspective | ‘Birthing centers for polarizing rhetoric’: The outsize influence of Fox, CNN and MSNBC 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Jonathan tells me I’m fabulous and those people are the literal worst, and he is right. I tell the Queer Eye guys everything: from politics to dresses, they have the answers 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

In Carson’s case, this lastness was literal—given a short time to live he emerged with poems reconsidering art and life, determined but not deterministic, not falsely hopeful but fully in the moment. Ciaran Carson’s Urgent, Hopeful, Final Lines 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

But the ballet can’t quite decide what it wants to be, hovering uncertainly between the fantastical and the literal. ‘Nureyev’ Opens at Bolshoi After Delay and Much Speculation 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

This newly literal perspective on the freeways may, paradoxically enough, unlock newly creative ways of reimagining or even radically repurposing them: as elevated parks or as passageways for bikes, driverless cars or public transit. Why the time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Here, the transition is literal: The first two songs are familiar Bryan turf. With ‘Kill the Lights,’ Luke Bryan Downshifts a Country Party 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

But he also constructs more complex, less literal works that mingle twigs and tendrils, leaves and wings. In the galleries: At Hamiltonian, a birthday celebration of a different sort 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

The fact that Eric's mother preferred him when he was under a literal curse is a reflection of the reality of most neurodivergent people's experiences. My neurodivergent reading of "The Little Mermaid": Ariel is autistic, and Eric has ADHD 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z

They would send Miranda and his team proposed German lyrics as well as a literal translation back into English, allowing Miranda to understand how their proposal differed from his original. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

The first draft of the script I saw was really imaginative and not literal. Heart’s Ann Wilson on leaving Seattle bubble, reconciling with sister and Carrie Brownstein-led biopic 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

They represent contrasting ways to process Covid-19: one political, one poetic; one contemporary, one historical; one more literal, the other more abstract. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

That perspective can be cultural but is more often literal. In the galleries: An artist’s past, present and future 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

He’s not the most literal translator but he is the most evocative. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z

Though Serial’s team examined Syed’s case with meticulous care – old and new witness statements, literal steps retraced, timelines re-enacted and evidence questioned – they did not ultimately declare anything about Syed’s innocence or guilt. Serial fans' eyes on Baltimore as new ruling approaches for Adnan Syed 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z

His poems are dense with weather reports, emotional and literal. Adding Up a Prolific Poet’s Charming Weather Reports 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Where her opponents within and outside the party use bombast, she drops literal bombs, and absorbs them. Meryl as Maggie in The Iron Lady: A Stunt of Genius 2011-12-29T16:59:44Z

Metaphors ought not be metamorphosed into literal claims, while the test for moral edicts is reflective introspection and not the weight of the evidence that defines the scientific domain. Martin Rees: Prize war 2011-04-07T23:05:06Z

Death can be literal, but death can be a transformation. ArtsBeat: Matthew Weiner Discusses the ‘Mad Men’ Season Finale 2013-06-24T06:00:54Z

Eating a fish head is a symbolic and literal way of bringing that to life. This is why there’s a fish head on your Rosh Hashanah table 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

With its fictional framework and obvious cinematic flourishes, “Krisha” imposes enough distance that viewers can assure themselves they’re watching a performance, not literal human suffering. Bold films negotiate the fine line between voyeurism and bearing witness 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

So here are some short answers to your literal questions: Does acceptance of our place in the universe represent a new level of maturity? I woke up at age 35 2013-03-22T00:00:00Z

The script is a literal rendering of a series of phone conversations the creators conducted with Kristin Worrall, who plays the flute and other instruments during the first episode and appears occasionally onstage. Theater Review: ‘Life and Times: Episodes 1-4,’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-23T03:00:48Z

The opening of borders, both literal and intellectual, shapes Christie's England. Poirot at 100: the refugee detective who stole Britain’s heart 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

Like the costumes, the sets by Daniel Ostling, also a longtime collaborator of Ms. Zimmerman’s, are more gestural than literal, evoking human environments rather than the natural world. Theater Review: ‘The Jungle Book’ Opens at the Goodman Theater 2013-08-06T20:35:47Z

The stilted affect that so often characterizes Ishiguro’s prose and dialogue — an incantatory flatness that belies its revelatory ability — serves its literal function. A Humanoid Who Cares For Humans, From the Mind of Kazuo Ishiguro 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

She starred in his pantomimes and silent films, distilling complex narratives through their emotional essence rather than literal gestures. Dancing by Herself: When the Waltz Went Solo 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

“I did a few, but I destroyed them. They were too literal.” In the Studio With an Artist Devoted to the Line 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Because Ms. Katrantzou, already known for her prints, had changed the literal way she previously presented them — like the room sets of last season — and this time absorbed print into fresh and wearable clothes. Special Report: Fashion: Mary Katrantzou, as London?s Summer 2012 Shows End 2011-09-20T18:00:53Z

Privately, TV executives use the excuse that the screen is a more literal and realistic medium than theatre. Sophie Okonedo interview: 'I have to go across the Atlantic to get work' 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

But it’s the text that is killed, by literal upstaging. Review: Joan Didion’s ‘The White Album,’ Now in Living Color 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

And yet, it was never lost on me that, in a sense, all Murphy’s doing in this bit is offering a literal description of the sex men can have with each other. Jerrod Carmichael Knows How to Wear the Truth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Only in its last third, when consumer society’s subtexts become too literal, does the book lose some of its mysterious potency. Review: Novels by Alexandra Kleeman, Edward St. Aubyn and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Travel stories are almost invariably metaphoric expeditions with multiple destinations, not all of them literal. ‘Compartment No. 6’ Review: Strangers on a Russian Train 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

Forty is, of course, an age heavy with cultural meaning, but Heti never acknowledges that she is choosing 40 as the symbolic, rather than the literal, end of the narrator’s childbearing years. Mother of All Decisions: Sheila Heti’s New Novel Weighs Whether to Have a Child 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

There’s a delicate line between respecting the past and living in it — most hotels are not literal museums. Why would you make a hotel less trendy? Behold, the Hotel Washington. 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

And this isn’t even touching on the more literal depictions of violence, misogyny and ethnic stereotype that infest the world of videogames. Here’s why kids love Beyblades 2012-07-11T13:46:00Z

And, yes, she's also featured sitting and swinging on a literal wrecking ball while belting the lyrics to the chorus. "Wrecking Ball," Miley Cyrus' “forgettable” pop ballad remains unforgettable and fun 10 years later 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z

“There’s so much ground to cover in the show, there’s no time to dwell on the literal truth that this man had to spend the end of his life in isolation,” Platt said. 5 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows, 5 Stagecraft Secrets 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

To me, all dance is a discourse on freedom, but in black dance, for obvious reasons, this discourse has been as much literal as figurative. How Alvin Ailey Opened the Eyes of a 12-Year-Old Zadie Smith 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

The video for Baha Men's cover of Douglas's song featured a ton of literal dogs escaping past a guard at a doggie daycare, further obfuscating its feminist roots. 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Didn’t anyone try to persuade him to make it more literal, or faster paced? Todd Haynes: ‘She said, there’s a frock film coming up, with Cate attached … It sounded right up my alley’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

The gruesome conclusion, which takes the discussion about control of one’s body to a literal extreme, will polarize. Theater Review | 'Girls in Trouble': Jonathan Reynolds Views Abortion From Kennedy Era to Now 2010-03-11T05:34:00Z

At a gala for the film, Gray wore a wonderfully literal dress: a puffy tulle skirt with a newspaper print bodice. Macy Gray: rocking 40s style 2013-02-16T09:00:00Z

Her attitude was so infectious that the judges were willing to overlook her literal missteps. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Meet the New Cast 2012-03-20T12:49:15Z

What Hutton finds more difficult to prove is the existence of literal diabolic cults, though the belief in them is certainly well-documented, particularly among groups organized to combat them. What sparked our fear of witches — and what kept it burning so long? 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

For all the darkness at its core — a darkness made literal in its ghostly conclusion — a bright light shines forth from it, the blazing luminescence of collective artistic achievement. Review: ‘The Humans’ Depicts a Family, and a Country, Under Pressure 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

When Aeneas’ enemy Turnus chases a phantom of Aeneas he jeers at it, and a literal translation of his gibes might be: “Where are you fleeing to, Aeneas? Don’t abandon your contracted marriage.” David Ferry Won the National Book Award in His 80s. In His 90s, He Has Translated Virgil. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

I remember watching the tribute and thinking of those who were not included, and its very literal assessment of casualties and those affected by it. They’ll Blame Us: Growing Up Muslim After 9/11 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

“I didn’t want to do anything too literal,” Neville told the Hastings Tribune. Artist adds color to Hastings College piano 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

But more literal sorts of links also figure in “Newly Connected,” a show of video, photography, sculpture and painting at the Korean Cultural Center. Review | In the galleries: At cultural center, art that’s tethered to South Korea 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Building such a house would be a literal expression of Leopold’s lifelong commitment to plant preservation. Vacationers are flocking to treehouses 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

He “felt the camera’s eye as a literal wound,” Lipman argues. When Samuel Beckett Tried to Capture the Power of the Movies 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Maybe the best test of a bedsheet’s quality is done at a hotel, where sheets are being put through the literal wringer daily. Experts choose the sheets they love best 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Dorothy’s sexual appetite is often conflated with her literal one, and to an uncanny degree — she literally consumes men. Why Can’t Women Be Serial Killers, Too? 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

“The series does not often make literal sense,” James Poniewozik wrote in The Times. What’s on Sunday: Season Finales of ‘Power’ and ‘Twin Peaks’ 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Would you agree that this sort of immersive-interactive theater is better the less literal it is? Review: An Immersive ‘Seeing You’ Sends Its Audience to War 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

By moving in and hosting others, Chironi injects these hallowed spaces—many of them long uninhabited—with literal life, imagining them as living artworks informed by different cultures, languages, identities, and geographies. Cristian Chironi Begins His Project “My House Is a Le Corbusier” 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Some of the work here is overly literal, but that points to the difficulties of creating nuanced art in the middle of a calamity. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

It was clunkily done and far too literal – as was his directionless handling of the piece. RSNO/Oundjian – review 2012-10-09T15:39:33Z

Still, the mix of narrative pyrotechnics with the more literal kind could be a tough sell to audiences. 'Tomorrowland' director Brad Bird's mantra: 'We have to bring in new ideas' 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

For its first few centuries, it mostly referred to literal poisons. ‘Toxic’ Is Oxford’s Word of the Year. No, We’re Not Gaslighting You. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

The photograph's status as physical trace of its referent could hardly be more literal, more concrete, yet Breuer's work abounds in poetic possibility. 'Light, Paper, Process' an inventive subversion of photography 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Mercifully, the show mostly avoids the usual jukebox pitfall of jimmying in songs to reflect the plot in literal ways. Review: An All-Star Team in the Temptations Musical ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

What fascinates me about this movie is the way that, unlike “J. Edgar,” it remains rigorously focused on the literal. Movies: ?A Dangerous Method? and ?J. Edgar?: Studies in Repression 2011-11-27T04:53:01Z

Then, there’s the mysterious Neitherlands, a literal place between fantasy and reality. ‘The Magician’s Land,’ the final volume of Lev Grossman’s Magicians Trilogy

Finn Ross’s video projections include both purely literal images and more metaphorical hints of landscape and water. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

"The idea was to do a homage to the pope," Rainaldi said, adding he could have done a literal image, like "the hundreds of those you see in souvenir shops." AP Interview: Pope sculptor gets second chance 2011-09-28T11:46:04Z

They choose foo-foo sophistry about “nuance” and “insight” and “metaphor” over literal truth and the clear, correct argument. The Zero Dark Thirty Argument: Why Deceptive Art Can Be Great 2012-12-11T16:10:11Z

There’s no modulation: Nearly every scene ends in either a screaming argument or a literal explosion. ‘Athena’ Review: Oh Brothers, Where Art Thou? 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

Beau started pointing out that he was stronger than his brother, who’d always been his almost literal equal. Motherlode Blog: The Rabbit Hole of the Rare Childhood Diagnosis 2013-02-01T19:34:26Z

And not some vague, metaphoric killing off with emotional abuse, but literal pills-down-her-throat murder, so he could be with his new girlfriend. Solving the mystery of how my mother died: Was it murder, suicide or death by cosmic joke? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

But as enthralled as viewers were with the actors playing the show’s laconic lovers, the fanfare was kept at a literal distance from Edgar-Jones, locked down in London. Daisy Edgar-Jones Would Like the Ingénue Phase of Her Career to End Now 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

She writes as an eminent scholar of the renaissance, but part of her, as she acknowledges in her epilogue, wants to believe in the literal truth of the angelic realm. From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels by Valery Rees 2012-12-21T07:00:01Z

"In a way, this is a continuation of the 8 Mile story, but rather than a literal biography, we are doing a metaphorical narrative of the second chapter of his life." Boxing role being written for Eminem 2010-12-15T18:04:03Z

"It's not a literal remake of the original the way Footloose was," producer Andrew Kosove earlier this year. Keanu rules out Point Break remake 2013-12-24T09:01:19Z

She grew up in a literal cow town, Fort Worth, where she was a football cheerleader, and her activism took root at her small Quaker college, Earlham. The Godmother of ‘Plant-Based’ Living 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

We decided to tear down the literal and figurative walls between print and digital, and reorganize the staff into teams based on subject matter, regardless of the platform. Wired Unveils Its State-of-the-Art Offices Designed by Gensler 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Appalling men have been getting away with murder, literal or otherwise, since time immemorial; if McDonagh’s film seems topical, that’s because the fury driving it is both ancient and eternal. How female vengeance powers Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

The works tend to be more abstract than literal: “It doesn’t come naturally to talk about politics. Or to talk at all.” Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

One is brushy but literal, with moments of sheer painterly lyricism in, for instance, the depiction of the edge of an arm against a warm ground. De Kooning exhibit highlights tension between portraiture, abstraction 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

But it’s at least equally likely that their fates are part of a program of revenge, and that when she talks about wanting their hearts, she means it in the most literal and grisly sense. Review: ‘The Love Witch,’ Hell-Bent on Capturing Your Heart 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

And much of the books’ dizzying charm resides in the inversions of logic and literal sense based on the sound and sight of words themselves. | 'Wonderland': There?s No Place Like Queens 2011-04-18T02:01:04Z

In a literal sense, yes, but what I found that day at lunch was sushi at its highest iteration. In Asia, Tastes of the Sea 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

He noted another, more literal jazzlike touch: his acoustic piano filigree, which runs throughout, as accent and signature. Music: Robert Glasper Experiment to Release ?Black Radio? 2012-02-24T20:30:08Z

The fact that the song is a literal garbage pile of horrible retrograde gender stereotypes. The worst song of 2015 is here: Meghan Trainor’s “Dear Future Husband” 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

There’s a literal falling-in-love bit that involves repeated, uncontrollable, weak-kneed crashes to the floor. Theater Review: ‘Almost, Maine’ Is a World of Vignettes 2014-02-05T21:15:58Z

Only occasionally has he been taken as a literal figure of evil; more often, the devil represents the outsider, the provocateur, the one with the best tunes. Devil's advocate: are satanists now the good guys in the fight against the evangelical right? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

What he most remembers is the hunger, both literal and figurative, that these rudimentary state-run schools induced in him. In ‘The End of Loneliness,’ a German-Swiss Novelist Confronts Death and Loss 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

And while they survive, per the literal definition of the word, “Naked and Afraid” is a survival show like the Onion News Network is news. Television Review: ‘Naked and Afraid,’ Jungle Reality on Discovery 2013-06-21T21:58:13Z

“I began to embellish and exaggerate, and I think a lot of people kind of took it extremely literal.” T.I. apologizes and says he was joking about ‘hymen’ comment 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

In “Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World” it joins other such images of the cosmos — some just as literal, others acts of imagination — created over millennia. Stargazing across millennia in 'Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World' 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

As poetic as Bradbury's descriptions of the literal darkness are, it's the unspoken yet irrepressibly approaching night that is at the core of the book. Darkness in literature: Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes 2012-12-14T11:56:29Z

"The best things in life are free," Robert Morse sang in his literal swan song as agency elder Bert Cooper to close the first half of the seventh season. 'Mad Men' open for business again in Part 2 of final season 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

The literal transmutation of money into time: A Private Jet. 41 Days, 26 Shows, 10 Countries: A Rock Tour Diary 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

The deadpan, the small-d democratic, the city in literal and painted flames. Consider the social-architectural context of LACMA's 1965 design 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

No, it is the very literal request of a rather tired and frustrated French choreographer, Philippe Decouflé, creating a new number on the stage of the historic Parisian nightclub the Crazy Horse Saloon. Looking at Frederick Wiseman?s Documentary ?Crazy Horse? 2012-01-13T17:45:25Z

And yet, some of its more literal uses, as when Mr. Mahé loops the two women’s singing into an echoing cry, are affecting. Review: ‘Samedi Détente’ Looks Back at the Horrors of Rwanda 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The world of auto racing, particularly in the American South, is fascinating: the machinery, the money, the hardscrabble origins of the drivers, who are often literal family as well as brothers in arms. ‘Blink of an Eye’ Review: A Racing Victory Coincides With Tragedy 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

And he spent time digging a literal ditch. From ‘The West Wing’ to ‘Veep’: Chiefs of Staff, Imagined and Real 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

And the movie ends on what's either a frustrating or brilliant note: A literal cliffhanger. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

“Hesse herself would probably have resisted so morbidly literal a reading,” he added. The Week Ahead: July 17 ? 23 2011-07-15T16:01:49Z

And like Freddy, he’s also the literal, lethal manifestation of the evil of the world. Review: ‘It’ Brings Back Stephen King’s Killer Clown 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Where does that leave people who believe in a literal interpretation of the Big Book? Your tap water is probably laced with anti-depressants 2013-03-14T21:01:00Z

He had an enthusiasm for fire-engine-red clothes and saw the world through literal rose-colored glasses. The Margaritaville empire: Jimmy Buffet fans won’t stop looking for that lost shaker of salt 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

The clasp of the title is, on its most literal level, that of a necklace, or in fact several necklaces. Lives Come Undone in The Clasp 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Like the spirit, “Reservation Dogs” believes any of its characters are capable of magic, not just the literal, meteorological kind. The Remarkable ‘Reservation Dogs’ Runs Away Toward Home 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

They are more literal than Kaufman, who does take liberties at times with the German. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z

He was able to manage the tone of literal murder through mourning, humor and sharp commentary. “I don’t strive to be offensive”: Trevor Noah tells Salon how his “Daily Show” will be different from — and similar to — Jon Stewart’s 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

It approaches the text in ways both abstract and overly literal, sometimes excerpting entire paragraphs. Review: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’? Nothing to Be Scared Of 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

In Ms. Dorrance’s hands, even literal signifiers of grief — faces buried in hands, heaving chests — somehow don’t read as clichés. Review: Martha Graham Dance Revisits a Classic in Gala 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The films cemented Mr. Zabka’s pop culture reputation for golden boy bullies just begging for the kicks to the face, literal or otherwise, that inevitably landed in the final act. ‘Karate Kid’ Revisited: This Rivalry Is Not Quite Ready for a Body Bag 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

But the way words carried weight for me had less to do with their literal meaning than their resonance and sway on a page. Ottessa Moshfegh on becoming a writer and her buzzed-about novel, 'Eileen' 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Beane and Brand are marvelously and vividly human, even though their approach to the game involves the almost literal dehumanization of the players, who are converted from flesh and blood into ciphers of pure probability. ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z

But, above all, the movie fulfills the literal idea of the title: it’s about time itself. Movie of the Week: “The Future” 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

There's a lot more going on here than literal sensory extrapolation. Have you got the guts for an edible performance? 2011-01-31T18:29:33Z

But she’s the star in a literal sense, as those doing real narrative work, her students, orbit around her. “How to Get Away With Murder” isn’t even about Viola Davis 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

No matter what the rules of the prison are, people form obviously literal human contact, and in some case, emotional attachments to each other. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z

“But they were too literal. Instead of making so much noise, sometimes it’s important to have a conversation.” A Mexican American Artist Finds Heroes in Farmworkers 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

And an escalating arms race — literal and figurative — in shocking audiences with startlingly graphic and intensely subjective violence. Perspective | The ‘Rust’ scene that Alec Baldwin was rehearsing strikes a familiar and played-out chord 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Where Mr. Zender resorts to literal sound painting, it’s often vivid and apt, like the combination of harp, marimba and strings tapped with the wooden part of the bow, in a passage about frozen tears. Schubert’s Chilly Winter Journey, Told Two Ways 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

But no musician’s been more literal about the work he’s doing than Frank Ocean. The Lonely Toil of Frank Ocean: Is It Art, or Denial? 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Scarers are the heroic frighteners who, by traveling through literal doors into the human world, are able to terrify children, inspiring the kiddie screams that literally light up the monsters’ world. Movie Review: ‘Monsters University’ Unfolds Before ‘Monsters Inc.’ 2013-06-20T18:56:08Z

“You’re dealing with someone whose sense of geography was deeply faulty, and more, sort of magical than it was literal.” Short Films to Celebrate Shakespeare's Plays 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

It ran down the surface in thick rivulets as funkily literal as they are associational. At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

As far as costuming went, he knew that he had to avoid the literal. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

The literal truth of this triumphant scene is debatable, but as metaphor it is dead on. Perspective | What Meryl Streep and ‘The Post’ can teach us about the power of being a female boss 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

Sex Education is about as literal a title as it gets, both in describing the magic-realist world of Otis’s therapy sessions and in what viewers can take from them. 'Take care of your actors': the intimacy director keeping Netflix’s sex scenes safe 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

The theme doesn’t apply only to the show’s literal mothers, though. Review: Orange Is the New Black Spotlights the Mothers of Detention 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

“I was learning to play like a literal icon,” she said. She Plays a Young Serena Williams 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

“When I was first on-scene, it was a little bit daunting,” a paramedic told 7 News, remarking on being in a literal “lion’s den” during the rescue. Zookeeper in critical condition after attacked by 2 lions at Australian zoo 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Ah well, the Bishops shouldn't beat themselves up too much -- Alt-livia's cookie, both literal and metaphorical, is too hard to resist. "Fringe" recap: Two worlds collide 2010-12-03T13:30:00Z

The light, literal and metaphorical, affects the way that music falls on our ears; we hear a song differently indoors to outdoors, alone or in company, sitting still to when we are in motion. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-12-16T22:19:00Z

“Mirage” is eager to judge in a distant, broad sense: It’s a lens designed to frame literal and metaphorical views of desert sprawl. Doug Aitken's 'Mirage': a funhouse mirror for the age of social media 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The bigness of it makes literal the career it contains. Barbra Streisand Is Ready to Tell All. Pull Up a Seat. 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z

At one point he assembles a ragtag army of outcasts to do his bidding, giving him a literal insane clown posse. In ‘Twisted Metal’ Series, Killer Clowns Come With Class Commentary 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

One of the queasy draws of women-in-peril-at-home movies is how they make literal the dangers that can lurk in traditionally feminized, ostensibly safe domestic spaces. ‘KIMI’ Review: Sure She’s Paranoid, but Something Really Is Out There 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Following that, radically conservative Christians, in Montgomery's analysis, "broke with those who acknowledged scientific findings and began to ignore, selectively cherry-pick, and actively undermine science to support their favorite literal interpretations of the Bible." 'The Rocks Don't Lie': looking at the evidence for a Noah-style flood 2012-08-15T19:03:03Z

Ms. Chase was alone on camera, but community was at the heart of her performance — made literal by the closing piece, a recording of Oliveros’s “Tuning Meditation” adapted for Zoom. For Classical Music, Spring Was the Season of Solos 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

While people whose coronavirus experience consists chiefly of working from home may notice some literal dreams, theirs are, overall, more likely to be less realistic, she said. Why Am I Having Weird Dreams Lately? 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

The sayings have been stripped of their literal meaning so entirely that the only way to revive them, to experience their drama and intensity, is through translation or reconfiguration. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z

We are all looking at “literal data” that says otherwise when we tell ourselves everything is going to be okay. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When you know the awful truth, how do you reassure someone? 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

But just as dictators create themselves, very literally, as icons – striving for ubiquity in their image, always expressed in heroic or godlike terms – so is their fall a very literal one, says Pine. Gaddafi compound reveals dictator's taste for bling - and Condoleezza Rice 2011-08-25T18:54:20Z

“The thing that I would really like to try to do is translate my material, I mean translate the literal words,” he said. Comedy: A Brazilian?s Comic Mania: Social Media 2011-08-04T12:00:00Z

In “A Sand Book,” capitalism’s parasitic effect on discourse mirrors its ransacking of the environment; Reines ties cultural and spiritual desiccation to literal desertification. The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Henriette, in literal ghost form, haunts the streets of Budapest. Ghosts, Literal and Figurative, Haunt Magda Szabo’s Novel 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The film is like this "Oh my God, did you hear Scott Pilgrim's huge fight last night?" and literal reconstruction of these wild exaggerated tales. U.K. director Edgar Wright takes on "The World" 2010-08-16T03:19:00Z

Neoliberalism’s gutting of public services and neglect of public spaces creates the literal "spaces of encounter" where Arthur is traumatically forced along his journey of transformation. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

The story is so outsize and absurd as to sound like science fiction—but then again, literal science fiction comprises the backbone of Scientology’s belief system. Scientology and Hollywood: Tom Cruise, John Travolta and the new “Going Clear” shockers 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

That said, the show's structural problems are almost completely mitigated when the characters are restricted to the literal structure of Key House. Netflix's clumsy "Locke & Key" almost unlocks the door to greatness 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Rehoboam is representative of a broader shift that “Westworld” makes in Season 3, from the allegorical to the more nearly literal. What Is ‘Westworld’ Without Westworld? 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

“Sanctuary” includes wallpaper printed from pages of the Green Books, but that’s about the only literal reference to the guides. How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

This is global warming in its most literal form, said Mr. Gudmundsson, who takes measurements of one of the outlet glaciers every year with Mr. Sigurdsson. Images of Iceland's Vast Landscapes, in Iceland's Vast Landscape 2010-04-15T14:42:00Z

Andrew Mueller It's christening day for the newest addition to the Pritchett clan, and to mark the occasion Gloria's mother and sister arrive with baggage of the emotional and literal variety. TV highlights 12/04/2013 2013-04-12T06:00:05Z

The scenario is also plainly not literal – for starters, the real Dylan has technically always been a white guy – though it is inspired by Dylan's real-life admiration for Guthrie. Dylan biopic I'm Not There: a ragtag and Bob tale 2012-12-05T13:57:00Z

Sound effects, instead of “POWs” and “BAMs,” are stiffly literal, per a skeleton’s range of motion: “STAND!” Bone Up on Shakespeare, With a Skeleton and His Ankle-Nibbling Nemesis 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z

But he said he believed his followers and readers were simply being too literal about the posts and should lighten up. Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine Art Critic, Suspended From Facebook 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

But with Mitchell’s latest book, a 600-page epic titled “The Bone Clocks,” the weight is more literal than figurative. How David Mitchell gets fantasy wrong 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

“Too many believers and nonbelievers alike now read these sacred texts in a doggedly literal manner that is quite different from the more inventive and mystical approach of premodern spirituality,” Armstrong writes. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

There’s been the literal language of therapy, with Levi’s treatment and the aftermath of Amy’s. Enlightened Watch: This Beautiful, Upsetting World 2013-03-04T13:00:28Z

That day was, in a nutshell, a preview of what our three-week British bike trip last spring would continue to be: a series of literal highs and lows. Going to great lengths: Cycling Britain from Land’s End to John O’Groats 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The memoir recounts Gomez’s life growing up queer in the literal arena of compulsory masculinity: The opening chapter takes place in his uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua. What Does It Mean to Be a ‘High-Risk Homosexual’? 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

After I descended, I headed for the town’s High Street, and underwent a second, less literal comedown. The Weird, Mystic Pull of Southwest England 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

That’s true even though from the start of the film we share Oscar’s literal perspective, seeing what he sees. | 'Enter the Void': Altering Perceptions on an Astral Plane Trip 2010-09-23T22:38:00Z

The book is about a boy traveling through Europe during World War II, but you can depend on Mr. Zustiak to offer a richly theatrical environment that never traffics in the literal. The Week Ahead: NOV. 21 ? 27 2010-11-20T19:34:00Z

The play's characters - portrayed by a cast that includes Laurie Metcalf and David Suchet - may be trying to hide from themselves in the literal and metaphoric fog that enshrouds their home. ArtsBeat: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' in London 2012-06-20T20:01:13Z

Mustard is a born DJ, in the literal sense. DJ Mustard sets the beat for mainstream hip-hop and R&B 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

To her, “Spamtown” is “absolutely a play about economic justice and unions on a literal level. It also functions very well as an allegory for what it’s like to grow up in a hyperpartisan society.” ‘Spamtown, USA’ Looks at a Bitter Strike Through Children’s Eyes 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

There is a special problem with the phrase “literal truth.” The Truth and Fiction of Adam and Eve 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

If Dante popularised the idea of a literal underclass, it was carried into the realm of science fiction by HG Wells. Parasite, Us and the movies' subterranean blues 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

A. I view Cameron as embodying the hacker ethos in a very literal way. Mackenzie Davis of ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ on AMC 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

And I'll write with whatever is on my mind and it's not always literal. Lisa Marie Presley returns with rootsy third album 2012-05-23T11:45:18Z

Godber is steeped in the techniques of European expressionist theatre, yet the big surprise is how literal his vision becomes. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 2010-06-02T21:01:00Z

Sometimes it’s literal: The Fyre Festival is now facing a class-action lawsuit in which the defendants include not only the organizers, but also a number of “Jane Does” who helped promote the festival. The Rise and (Maybe) Fall of Influencers 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

The literal Italian translation is "small little pies," so yes please to this meat-and-cheese-filled pasta. An A-to-Z guide to every single type of pasta 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z

He was a literal child in 1985 when he filmed “Explorers.” Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

The Great Barrier Reef was incredible in the literal sense. Q&A: Elizabeth Kolbert, author of ‘The Sixth Extinction’ 2014-02-14T22:07:21Z

Despite her popular acclaim, many critics found her work too literal. Jennifer Muller, Choreographer Whose Dances Told Human Tales, Dies at 78 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

This makes sense, seeing as it's a literal dating show, and dating history can give essential insight into someone's present-day dating approach. The tired "Bachelor" franchise needs to step up or step aside for the likes of "FBoy Island" 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Exile comes in many forms — sometimes it’s spiritual, sometimes it’s literal. Beyoncé’s Dance-Floor Salvation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Markham later said in an email that he had expected the drop-off because Live Nation “warned us that they would put us in a literal boycott.” Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

You keep expecting them to wake up with twitching noses and wormy tails, á la Gregor Samsa’s literal embodiment of another lowly creature. Newly Released Books 2011-08-17T22:44:30Z

But as she played, it began to melt, too, the parts giving way to a whole that was far more immersive and far less literal. Review: Colleen Focuses on Precision With Fingers and Feet 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is a literal interpretation of Benjamin’s belief that “the uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being embedded in the fabric of tradition.” | Snap Tonic 2010-10-25T15:39:00Z

"Murder Most Foul" begins at the literal and figurative scene of the crime. "Murder Most Foul": Unpacking Bob Dylan's new epic, from Dallas 1963 to the pandemic of 2020 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

This is a post-punk band, not in the general sense but in the anachronistically literal one, as if the first wave of punk had just happened and needed an answer. Music Review: Savages Brings Its Intellectual Punk to Webster Hall 2013-07-12T21:12:05Z

Christine is an expert in “grafting,” which is the literal burning of text into a person’s flesh. Lidia Yuknavitch blasts Joan of Arc into outer space 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

In other words, don’t take these as literal promises—speech acts—at all. “Mere” speech has powerful consequences 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

They’re more literal and less resolved, but they still speak to the artist’s deep interest in surfaces. From drops on a computer screen, Valerie Green creates tiny kaleidoscopic worlds 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Since 9/11," adds Eldridge, "theatre has been more literal and utilitarian. A Thousand Stars' end of the world show 2010-05-10T21:00:00Z

They don’t just like to play around in human messes, those both ickily literal and situational; they also revel in them. | 'Hall Pass': Man-Child in the Promised Land, for a Whole (Pant! Pant!) Week 2011-02-24T22:54:48Z

Like Jackson Pollock’s dripping Ms. Moyer’s technique automatically produces the old flip-flop between literal surface and illusory space of uncertain, possibly infinite depth. Art In Review: SAM MOYER 2012-03-08T22:22:43Z

I don’t gravitate to a literal interpretation of the Bible certainly. Matthew Broderick and Kenneth Lonergan Look to the Universe, Again 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

With nary a pause, he rolls through the details of characters’ yearslong arcs, including every stolen identity, forbidden romance and vicious backstabbing — literal and figurative. Michael R. Jackson on the Soap Opera Origins of ‘White Girl in Danger’ 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

According to historian William Seale, in the early days that “peep” was literal: Tourists entering the north side of the building could look down directly into the kitchen. In the White House kitchen, hiding in plain sight

Now, lots of designers purportedly see things, but the results are too often literal, when it’s the fine essence we truly crave. Fashion Review: Down From the Stratosphere, Gaga-Free 2010-09-15T06:45:00Z

Season 3 was jam packed with explosive plot lines and, well, literal explosions. 7 Things You Need to Know Before Scandal's Season 4 Premiere 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

This house is in a North Dakota town called Devil’s Gate, and as the movie’s title implies, the burg’s name could be literal. Review: In ‘Devil’s Gate,’ Satanic Shenanigans 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Briggs, on the other hand, arrives on the scene in a literal blast of Looney Tunes slapstick. ‘The Homesman’ Stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

She experimented with forming figures from it but ended up using it mostly to accent and frame her paintings, a device that gives them literal texture as well as historical depth. The Many Styles of Emma Amos, and Her Drive to Get Free 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

She still spins out long, lovely phrases and frames lyrics precisely; songs make more literal and emotional sense when sung by Streisand than when sung by almost anyone else. Streisand at Verizon, still in one-of-a-kind voice 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

In a city full of status symbols, nothing distills power more quickly than your literal place at the table. Drama. Ego. Protocol: Washington dinners have it all — and that’s just the seating chart

If somebody is a fire sign, for example, there’s a literal fieriness to their personality; they’re passionate and impulsive and behave like fire. Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky, a.k.a. the Astro Poets, are here to make sense of modern life 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Again, Haldane reiterates: her dreams are usually quite boring and literal. ‘Edith Piaf sneezed on my cheesecake’ and other coronavirus dreams 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

At the same time, the show gives a compelling, visionary shape to the monstrous aspect of American discourse in 2017 — a literal manifestation of the bubbling, roiling evils of racism, homophobia, xenophobia and hate. Review | ‘American Horror Story’ tries to make the Trump era scarier than it actually is 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

Lucy Kirkwood’s thematically dense “Mosquitoes,” which recently opened at the National Theater, contemplates such a void in literal terms. How Rupert Murdoch Became the King of England 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

We still smile when we hear this line, usually attributed to Yogi Berra, but we forget the literal truth of the remark. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z

Paris, With a Slouch or a Sashay New York seems miles away as the Paris collections, the fourth and final stop of the spring 2013 shows, began in a downpour - a literal one, that is. On the Runway Blog: Paris Fashion Week, With a Slouch or a Sashay 2012-09-26T19:41:55Z

The photographs selected for the book are not literal representations of the places Tempest Williams writes about but a nod to the men and women who drew attention to the parks through their pictures. Terry Tempest Williams thinks, breathes and writes deeply in our national parks 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Shelter in the most literal sense means to protect or shield from something harmful. Why I'm sheltering my kids for as long as I can 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

The pieces spattered with color were the most literal references to their craft — a real artist’s wardrobe. | Raf Simons’s Colorful Collaboration With Sterling Ruby for Fall/Winter 2014 2014-01-16T20:16:38Z

He added: “Shange’s free-form text was neither linear nor literal in its depiction of Black women struggling to claim their own voices from a society that had either ignored or actively silenced them.” Spring Date Set for Broadway Revival of ‘For Colored Girls’ 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

But this collection, pulsating with tribal elements, seemed too literal a translation of thoughts to cloth — or, more accurately, to chiffon, leather and raffia. Being Aware of Vanishing Beauty 2012-09-17T17:30:29Z

Breaking Bad is the kind of TV show that gets described as cinematic, and that's true in the literal sense: it looks like a movie. AMC's Breaking Bad: Elements of Style 2011-07-14T09:15:00Z

During his time on the French Riviera, Picasso was fairly literal about his influences. What’s it like to film a TV travel show? I joined the crew of “Travels With Darley” to find out. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

I’m a good Tennessee girl with a fairly literal mind. Single, and Singular, Women Become Her 2010-09-03T20:40:00Z

Like so much of Puryear’s work, this evocative assemblage doesn’t touch its subject in any literal or physical way. Review | America picked artist Martin Puryear’s work for the Venice Biennale — and he’s everything America is not 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

The murder mystery, in comparison, is among the most literal, plot-reliant of genres. ‘A Murder at the End of the World’ Review: P.I. Meets A.I. 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z

Instead, Ms. Jepsen has been pursuing a more literal Cinderella story: She will take over the lead in the Broadway musical “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” and is to begin performances on Tuesday. Carly Rae Jepsen to Star as ‘Cinderella’ 2014-02-03T22:43:09Z

I don’t want to get too literal here, but did Ramona’s band really want to be the next Sleater-Kinney? 'The Good Wife' Recap: In a Campaign Commercial, Alicia Shows Off Her Acting Chops 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

The costumes almost reminded me of Julie Taymor’s animals in the Broadway version of “The Lion King” — it’s almost just a suggestion of the animal, rather than a literal rendering. Those Wild ‘Masked Singer’ Costumes? She Designed Them 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

What’s at stake when comprehensively creative filmmakers are stifled or silenced isn’t just aesthetic but also political, in the literal sense. Highlights from the 2019 Maryland Film Festival 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

The engine driving the plot — apart from the biblical apocalypse, which is as literal a deus ex machina as you could wish for — is Jay’s jealousy. Movie Review: ‘This Is the End,’ With Seth Rogen and James Franco 2013-06-11T18:01:14Z

Naturally enough, in a story about a tainted emotional legacy and a virus that invades a person's DNA, Roth is hyperalert to the possibility of creative slippage between literal and metaphorical inheritance. James Lasdun reviews The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth 2013-02-16T09:01:01Z

Not “over” in the literal sense, of course. Is It New York Fashion Week? Or Is It Rihanna Inc.? 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Eager and apposite collaborators, both are fascinated by language, whether literal or compositional, and concerned with situating music within broader artistic and cultural contexts. Music Review: Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet at Montclair State 2013-05-12T21:34:28Z

Let's not go down without a fight, in the most literal sense of the phrase! 'lf I had a gun, I'd shoot her': how violence could save The X Factor 2012-10-11T17:11:01Z

Nature morte, the French expression for still life, works better as a literal translation. How to dispose of a dead pet: is taxidermy the very best option? 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Disco clubs moved to literal warehouses, giving house music its name. Disco ain’t dead: how Beyoncé resurrected dance music and its queer history for "Renaissance" 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

So no matter what Newman intended, they are in fact literal Stations of the Cross when encountered in this way. Perspective | Barnett Newman’s ‘Stations of the Cross’ draws pilgrims to the National Gallery 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

However, even if disbelieved in the literal sense, The Way Back is still an engaging, old-fashioned piece of storytelling. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-23T15:00:00Z

An abortion was a five-minute medical procedure, and an abortion was a query into the literal meaning of life. The long five minutes: Abortion doulas bring comfort during a complicated time 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

No need to be literal about this one. This Fancy Wedding Is Everything I Didn’t Want for You 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

For those of a sensitive disposition, it's safe to look up now, as we move from the literal to the figurative hunting song. Readers recommend songs about hunting: The results 2010-08-05T21:45:00Z

Apart from the literal sense, this also means "to get it off one's chest". The secret life of handbags 2011-04-05T13:00:18Z

“Underground Railroad” combined historical detail from the 19th century and a unique twist: Whitehead imagined the network for bringing runaway slaves North to their freedom as a literal railroad. An eventful year for Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

His best film, the darkly comic sci-fi action flick Edge Of Tomorrow, makes it all very literal. 'Terrifyingly relevant': why Doug Liman had to recut Fair Game 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

The music supervision is suffocatingly literal, and some of the accent work rankles, but I devoured all eight episodes in a sitting. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

He's likably befuddled throughout, and he earns belly laughs whenever Aaron stops stifling his outrage and treats his relatives the way they treat Aaron -- as a figurative or literal punching bag. "Death at a Funeral": Crude, dumb -- and hilarious 2010-04-16T13:01:00Z

But that seems too heavily literal for this poem. Poem of the week: 'Time has disappeared/Lo temps s'es perdut' by Aurélia Lassaque 2013-02-11T11:28:12Z

It’s certainly some kind of literal place that I was able to go.” Where John Fogerty's Songs Come From 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Turn to the stage and you find the opposite: works of theater are glaringly literal. When art sings: How paintings have fared on the musical and opera stage

It seemed completely appropriate that a play so bound up with surveillance should be channelled through cameras, thereby making the audience even more watchful and providing them different perspectives, literal and figurative. Can a filmed stage show be as good as the real thing? 2011-03-06T00:11:35Z

“It’s a way of talking about birds in a very literal way, but also in a very metaphorical tongue-in-cheek way,” Ms. Huisman said. From Aristophanes to Hitchcock, Celebrating Birds and Culture 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

But in more vainglorious moments, the fantasy might become literal. Can a live "30 Rock" succeed? 2010-10-14T16:40:00Z

His property, Falcon Ridge Farm, lies between Westminster and the Mason-Dixon Line and is not just a figurative but literal reinvention of northern Maryland agriculture. Perspective | The key to a family farming renaissance? Niche crops. 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Mirror images are unlike other representations because they are literal: There is nothing in the reflection that is not also there in the original. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

The show’s title, Guadagnoli explains, is both literal and metaphorical: She wants to slice through the viewer’s everyday perceptions. Review | In the galleries: At cultural center, art that’s tethered to South Korea 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

But the blueberry compote here is the literal icing on the cake. How to make a delicious cheesecake without hours of work or a springform pan, revealed 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

"The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Black Cat" -- those are literal torture stories. Interview with Drew Daywalt: Horror's great Internet age begins 2011-04-14T14:14:00Z

I don't know if it was ever as literal as that, but there were loads of people that I was really enjoying. "The Big Door Prize's" Chris O'Dowd: "Being Irish has been nothing but an absolute gift" 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

He suggests the shape-shifting, his literal body of work, is instinctive and necessary. Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘Pushing myself is part of my life’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Naturally Mr. Sullivan did not intend that in literal terms. For Tuxedos, Blue Is the New Black 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

More than once, there are references to characters missing airplane flights, metaphorical and literal. Review: Mad Men's Time Machine Warms Up for Its Last Trip 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

We infer both from watching the film and reading Apatow's comments about it that is autobiographical in an emotional rather than literal sense. This Is 40 – review 2013-02-17T00:06:00Z

“Season 4 is a very literal pulling back of the entire family to where they’re from, so they can re-evaluate who they are in the environment they once were in.” ‘Peaky Blinders’: The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

It works pretty well, although since translations are quite literal, I wouldn’t use it for reading Dostoyevsky. On the Road, Finding Savings on Your Phone 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Six years later, Bobby is working for the Department of Defense in Oman when Talia reenters his life with a literal explosion — at the U.S. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels for March 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

On the other hand, Turrell’s art externalizes light, and he can seem consummately American in offering such a literal and hedonistic version of transcendence. James Turrell Takes Up Curating, With a Show by His Hero 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Rollers even showed up at the couture debut of Pyer Moss in July, albeit in a more literal fashion, worn as a cape that took two weeks to create. How Rollers Became 2021’s Most Unexpected Hair Tool 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

“We call you to the table of a loving family” worked as metaphor — but for AMOC, it was also literal, evoking the meals that are a fixture of the group’s annual Vermont retreats. In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

Cursed energy used to be a more literal concept. How We Came to Live in “Cursed” Times 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

The songs owe a great deal to the girl groups of the 1950s and 1960s, a point rendered literal by one fan who did the Twist for much of La Sera’s set. ArtsBeat: For Fans of Vivian Girls, an Intimate Inside Look 2010-10-22T14:33:00Z

And here’s the problem with faith: The aesthetic version, like the religious one, can lead you to higher insight and inspiration, or it can shackle you to the unforgiving literal interpretation of a text. Adapt or Die 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Some of Giolitti’s pictures have white backgrounds and others have black; the black ones are more layered, but all have conceptual and literal depth. Review | In the galleries: Works draw on feeling, seeing and a penchant for jazz 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

But I did ask if ‘the Hound’ was a literal hound.” What it’s like to watch the season 7 premiere if you’ve never seen “Game of Thrones” before 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

"One accident on a bright sunny day in New York was unlikely enough, but a second one was almost a literal impossibility, as we all horribly deduced." The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver – review 2012-11-09T22:55:11Z

But there were many literal translations from sound into movement: crisp jumps corresponding to jabbing high notes in the flute or piano, or a floppy-limbed, languid pirouette accompanied by fuzzy-toned harmonics in the strings. ‘Vortex Temporum,’ a Sensual Blend of Music and Dance 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

It’s that you simply know that no matter what you do, sans literal plastic surgery, you will never belong to a certain club. Unpretty: I live the life I want to live – even if I didn’t win the beauty lottery 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

But it is the apartment of a person with a lot of issues, in the most literal sense. Vince Aletti’s Obsessive Collection of Seminal Fashion Magazines 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

The cursedness that has come to be incessantly invoked online is less literal. How We Came to Live in “Cursed” Times 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

His guiding principle was lightness, literal and metaphorical, the notion that things should not weigh heavily on the soul or on the ground. The 10 best chairs – in pictures 2013-04-06T15:00:00Z

Clinton was in New York, with most everyone else from Washington’s party set, hoping to give her speech under a literal glass ceiling on Manhattan’s West Side. What it felt like to be in Washington on Election Day 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

There are of course more literal examples of Ariel's lack of understanding of social cues. My neurodivergent reading of "The Little Mermaid": Ariel is autistic, and Eric has ADHD 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z

It feels like an instrument, in the most literal sense: a vehicle of expression rather than a remarkable sound in its own right. A Day of Divas 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

The literal and metaphorical layers here — black man in the backseat, white guy at the wheel — are simply stunning. Hollywood still loves a white savior: "Green Book" and the lazy, feel-good take on race 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

At the center of this quite literal depiction of chaos and destruction is a glowing white room, a replica of a chamber from the film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” 'The 14th Factory' art exhibition, despite all the hype, is an $18 ticket to spectacle 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Similarly, protruding planes of quartzite extend perpendicularly from the house into the surrounding meadow in a literal embrace of nature. Take in an Aspen Home's Spectacular View 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

March 23 Aside from direct advertising, a theater poster must be a mnemonic or brand that when seen evokes a sense of the play without being excessively literal. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z

Just the literal science of anxiety and mental illness. Some People Make Songs. Jack Antonoff Prays For Them. 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

One of the smallest is Captured By Porches, a literal “mom and pop” operation based in the nearby suburb of St. Helens. | Portland, Ore. 2011-06-21T20:19:38Z

In recent years, Mr. Brook, who is 91, has been moving toward an increasingly literal interpretation of his often cited idea of theater as an empty space, toward a distillation of spectacle into simplicity. Review: ‘Battlefield’ Explores the Silence After the War 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

So what other way could Fellowes ride in on this wave of gushy froth than with a literal bang? Downton Abbey Watch: Drama and then Somme 2012-01-09T14:30:05Z

Images of crowds massing in the streets, sometimes getting gassed, provide a literal chorus of disapproval. ‘A La Calle’ Review: In Venezuela, a Chorus of Discontent 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

The camera in “Cicada” dwells on scars, literal and metaphorical. ‘Cicada’ Review: A New Relationship Buds as Old Wounds Reopen 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Until I went to high school at a public school, everyone I knew believed in a literal six-day creation by the hand and voice of God. You can have a church or be a free woman – but having both is a struggle 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Storey believes in the literal truth of the Bible and that the earth was created only several thousand years before Christ's birth. Northern Ireland minister calls on Ulster Museum to promote creationism 2010-05-26T10:59:00Z

It’s significant that these most original images are words—ones that are documentary in the literal sense, derived from documents. The Crucial Lessons of Democracy in “Selma” 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

But taken together, Mr. Bruster argues, they strongly suggest that the Additional Passages were set in type from pages written, in the most literal sense, by Shakespeare. Further Proof of Shakespeare’s Hand in ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ 2013-08-13T02:49:45Z

But Nishino's obsessive cartography is of a different order: fantastical rather than scientific; imaginative rather than literal. Unreal cities 2011-02-24T11:40:04Z

“I wanted to acknowledge her sketch, but it wasn’t a literal instruction,” he said. A Panorama of Design 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic, but with a strong literal story. Portrait of the artist: Abi Morgan, writer 2012-06-05T18:59:01Z

Is there a danger, when translating written material to the screen, of the source material becoming too literal? Is ‘The Little Stranger’ a ghost story or an allegory about Donald Trump? 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

This might be especially true for me since I’m a text artist as well and not really making things in the literal sense. Both Sides Now: In Conversation With Lorraine O’Grady 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

Its resolution is — and I mean this as a literal description — a bad joke. ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ Review: Who Do You Love? 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

When Gethard talks about pounding the pavement, he's being entirely literal. Chris Gethard on why “losing well” is the key to winning: “You can get bitter or can get bu... 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Poet Billy Collins, a fan, pinpoints the curious effects these quirks trigger when he notes how McCauley's "distinctive animals manage to seem literal and symbolic at the same time." Creatures with a purpose: the heightened 'naturalism' of Skagit Valley painter Robert McCauley 2010-12-30T20:48:04Z

Documentary confines you to literal fact and lets you present real people recounting their own versions of real experience in real surroundings. Clio Barnard's The Arbor is out of lip-synch with reality 2010-10-25T10:06:00Z

No wonder the couple retreat so eagerly into the inertia of alcohol and anti-depressants, a haven from the literal and metaphorical madness of their lives. The Garden | Theatre review 2010-03-26T23:30:00Z

That novel had several evangelical characters, and while researching that unfamiliar world, he was constantly struck at how often the Rapture came up as a literal part of people’s faith. ‘The Leftovers,’ About a Small Town’s Loss, Comes to HBO 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Suffice it to say that the literal truth is a slippery thing in Iran, and language is the last place you should go looking for it. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z

He can perceive patterns invisible to others but also finds himself stranded in the desert of the literal. ‘The Imitation Game’ Stars Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

The women held up Kesha's literal body and the weight of her story. Why #MeToo has had little effect on the music industry 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Mat is a “literal Adonis” — a wildly handsome and charismatic sort who speaks in self-help platitudes. Review | ‘The Very Nice Box’ is a very funny office satire 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

The story told onstage flickered between being too literal and too opaque. Dance Review: ?Love Letters in Ancient Brick? - Review 2011-11-07T23:05:20Z

And if the choice between safety and danger, virtue and vice is at times made overwhelmingly literal, it’s also in keeping with the movie’s atavistic tone and unblinking focus on the act of mothering. ‘Daughter of Mine’ Review: Lessons in Imperfect Parenting 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

The sweetness of Queenie is, like many minor details in this novel, truly literal. Books of The Times: ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,’ by Rachel Joyce 2012-07-29T21:26:22Z

“Writers are used to playing God, but suddenly now the metaphor was literal,” Mr. Kirschenbaum said in the lecture. A Literary History of Word Processing 2011-12-25T22:20:13Z

That book, called simply “The Underground Railroad,” follows a 15-year-old slave named Cora as she escapes north via a literal network of underground tracks and trains. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

You don’t get to make art without some metaphorical and often literal blood, sweat and tears. Stop saying you’re sorry: “Women will apologize to inanimate objects for bumping into them” 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

If we’re being precise about this, it’s not that Kesha has been “silenced” in any literal sense—no one is stopping her from writing or recording music for herself. The Pain of Denying Kesha Her Audience 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The orchestration tends to lie in wait for a word or a concept to latch onto, most often in an obvious and literal way. Music Review: ‘Oscar,’ at Santa Fe Opera, With David Daniels, Countertenor 2013-08-01T21:53:47Z

The statement goes on to say, “This is not a difference of opinions; this is legitimizing bigotry. . . . Mike Pence has literal and figurative blood on his hands.” Perspective | The Philip Roth biography is canceled, Mike Pence’s book could be next — and publishing may never be the same 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

A sweet-and-sour soup with dainty cubes of smoked tofu and strips of scallop was too literal for my taste. The Europe Issue: Six Prix-Fixe Restaurants in Paris 2010-04-16T19:17:00Z

And thus “The March,” a succinct and well-conceived documentary on Tuesday night on PBS, begins not in Washington, but in Birmingham, Ala., where violence against blacks was explosive in a very literal sense. Critic’s Notebook: PBS Documentary Explores a Civil Rights Triumph 2013-08-26T22:23:43Z

This sweet slice of old-fashioned hospitality is not without several bumps — sometimes literal ones, as when diners seated near passageways get jostled by streams of human traffic. Review | After 36 years, Filomena still revels in old-time hospitality and titanic portions 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

I remind myself of the literal meaning of "inspiration". Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z

“Larry began ‘Swimmers’ with a very literal fear of deep water and of drowning,” the art historian Philip Gefter writes in the book. Summertime in America, Beneath the Surface 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

The production relied a little too heavily on this literal teasing. A Quirky Parisian Festival Refinds Its Footing 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

The theme of regression in “Enter the Void” — a literal journey back to the womb — dovetails with the childlike wonder that seems to be the common denominator linking Mr. Noé’s formative movie experiences. Film: Turn on, Tune in to a Trippy Afterlife 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

I’m leery of the term “Golden Age,” even though I’ve used it sometimes myself, because, as Todd VanDerWerff wrote recently, it tends to be both too literal and too fuzzy. Is There Too Much Great TV or Too Little? 2013-11-13T15:28:27Z

Infidelity was simply the worst transgression a woman in Isabella’s position could commit, as well as a literal crime. “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z

The City's Son by Tom Pollock is a YA novel determined to bring London to life, in a very literal sense. London: fantasy's capital city 2012-11-21T11:51:44Z

And the finale is both a tad too literal and a lot too long. 'Insidious': A spooky haunted-house flick that also screams fun 2011-03-31T21:27:41Z

The approach I took was very, very literal. Writing affirmative consent into YA novels: Teens need healthy models in fiction, too 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

The splendor and stirring purity of Underwood’s voice is powerful enough that even a plunging ball gown adorned with literal angel wings cannot overshadow it. Mariah! Dolly! Carrie! 2020 Can’t Quarantine This Cheer 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

And when he fails, the hovering storm clouds are both literal and metaphorical. Books of The Times: New and Old Worlds Clash in James Sturm?s ?Market Day? 2010-04-25T22:23:00Z

Meanwhile, Mr. Pawlikowski expresses this alienation visually, as at a party where, surrounded by strangers, Tom talks to a woman he sees only as a literal blur. Movie Review: ‘The Woman in the Fifth,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2012-06-14T22:16:07Z

The theatre has the power—more like the prerogative—to warp reality to suit its own ends, exiting the literal world through whatever trapdoors it creates. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The result is a more literal dance that takes viewers through the stages of girlhood, adolescence and womanhood. Seattle choreographer Pat Graney revamps her 'Faith Triptych' at On the Boards 2010-10-13T23:22:00Z

That means that bigamy remains illegal in Utah only in the literal sense, such as when someone fraudulently acquires more than one marriage license. 'Sister Wives' family wins ruling in bigamy suit 2013-12-14T05:33:30Z

On a literal level, Bloom recognizes that a linear relationship between wasted food on a dinner plate and starvation thousands of miles away is nonsense. 'American Wasteland': a prescription for reducing waste in the food chain 2011-03-03T20:58:04Z

They seem untested by any wars, both literal and metaphorical. “The Intern” Is a Very Strange Workplace Fantasy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

The point was never a literal treatment, said Thomson, the movement director and Barney’s close collaborator on the project. Matthew Barney, Back in the Game 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z

Be warned: the clues aren’t literal, so read and look carefully as you hunt for these literary gems. Christoph Niemann’s “Enchanted Forest” 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Martin Skegg Guy Pearce stars as a part-time investigator and a literal jack of all trades in this excellent new crime drama from Down Under. TV highlights 14/12/2012 2012-12-13T20:00:01Z

It was an endlessly enticing destination for anyone looking to make his or her descent into romantic devastation more literal. Going to Graceland 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

But what are we to do with ghosts both literal and figurative? Some Advice About Ghosts and Ghosting, From a Paranormal Investigator 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

The omnipotent Church hierarchy, led by Christopher Plummer, has become a literal "opiate of the masses," as Marx once put it. 'Priest': Heaven help us 2011-05-13T16:47:04Z

A professor of social geography at Newcastle University in England, Mr. Bonnett crosses cultural and psychic cartography with the literal kind. Why Old Enclaves and New Islands Matter to Travelers 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

The chains are not literal anymore, but the need to retain one’s identity in the face of systemic dehumanization remains. Roots remake: seminal slavery narrative still resonates in revamped miniseries 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

And I think we did that along every plane – in terms of the literal plane, like what land we would feature and what people, and what activities. Baratunde Thurston is making America love the outdoors again: "There's history in nature for us" 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

Burberry’s strategy represents a huge change from the past, when a literal golden ticket was the only way to see its show. Watching the Catwalk, and Clicking ?Add to Cart? 2010-09-13T23:42:00Z

This isn’t the literal truth, but it’s how it felt, because the choreography was more interested in showing off the costumes than the dancers. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Gala, With Costumes by Valentino 2012-09-22T00:16:05Z

Pondering the Virgin Mary’s ascension as literal fact, the work pits trombone plainsong against brazen trumpet arias in a restless, profound and substantial chamber-ensemble tour de force. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble in 2 Premieres - Review 2011-09-25T21:55:41Z

Not the kind of metaphorical control that implies empowerment or recovery, but literal control. The #MeToo Movement Gets Its Novel 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

It’s a jubilant, swinging outing whose only literal throwback, “Uranus,” is a tune from the 1970s repertory of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Review: Aaron Diehl’s ‘Space Time Continuum’ Is a Jubilant New Album 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

In “Traveling Black,” Mia Bay’s superb history of mobility and resistance, the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large. ‘Traveling Black,’ a Look at the Civil Rights Movement in Motion 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a classic story in a lot of ways, but it just hadn’t really been told in this literal sense, with the symbol of childhood right there, next to you, smoking a cigarette. ArtsBeat: The Animated Life of Seth MacFarlane, From 'Family Guy' to 'Ted' 2012-06-19T14:00:19Z

“He has been used to give people their voice, and a sense of hope and purpose, how to turn literal pain into purpose.” Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t have to be so literal, it’s much more figurative. ArtsBeat: Q. and A. With Lady Gaga on Her 'Freedom Ride' 2011-05-20T12:00:49Z

We never land on this, or any, conclusion, but toward the play’s end, Bobbi offers a remedy to the group’s literal and metaphorical mourning: gratitude. Review: A Drowsy Night at ‘Grief Hotel’ 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

To help make the process easier, store managers were provided a literal book that strictly outlined "what good-looking looks like." 6 shocking revelations from Netflix's new Abercrombie & Fitch doc 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

The film’s conclusion, the literal opening of New Hollywood’s gates, make perfect punctuation to the end of a career. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Tarantino's last word? Discuss with spoilers 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Loosely inspired by Warhol’s movie “Kitchen,” the show is by no means a literal re-creation of it. | 'Gob Squad?s Kitchen (You?ve Never Had It So Good)': ?Gob Squad?s Kitchen,? Inspired by Warhol, at Public Theater 2012-01-24T03:01:11Z

The aim was to write a piece explicating the feel, if not so much the literal exact truth, of a city’s sadness. What if the Guy With the Red Pencil Is Nuts? 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Most of the pieces don’t take the form of literal altars. Review | In the galleries: Artist’s works criss-cross the paths of U.S. colonialism 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

It was an eye-for-an-eye with a twist: Ellaria will now be made to spend the rest of her days rotting in a cell, alongside her daughter, who presumably will do so in more literal fashion. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7, Episode 3: The Queen’s Justice 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

There’s a cloud — both figurative and literal — hanging over the tents of “The Great British Bake Off” as we head into week five. "Bake Off" shocks viewers with a dramatic double-elimination 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z

Hoffa, by contrast is different—he is the opposite of silent—not only is he a literal speechmaker at the rostrum, he’s a running-off-at-the-mouth talker in private, in one-on-ones and “business” meetings. Watching “The Irishman” on Netflix Is the Best Way to See It 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

You mail your literal DNA to a company to find out if you’re, like, 10 percent French. ‘S.N.L.’ Gives Comic Voice to the Downed Chinese Spy Balloon 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

In a very literal interpretation of the idiom “finding a needle in a haystack,” performance artist Sven Sacselber tries to do exact that. Performance Artist Searches for an Actual Needle in an Actual Haystack 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z

For “Black Lake,” the architect David Benjamin and his team, working with the firm Autodesk, turned the song into a literal blueprint, mapping the music’s volume and frequency. Björk Is on Display, Up Close and in 3-D at MoMA 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

It said this was "not obviously so" because a "composite mark, consisting of a literal component combined with design elements, may nevertheless be protectable." Oprah Winfrey beats 'Own Your Power' trademark appeal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal. JJ Abrams: 'I called Spielberg and he said yes' 2011-08-01T19:30:01Z

This portrait was an early chance for Washington to grow accustomed to seeing a new, literal face of power. The National Portrait Gallery unveiled a ‘witty’ picture of Donald Trump 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Hepburn and Tracy’s complex relationship is a fascinating example of Hollywood’s hypocritical – and literal – moral code. Hollywood's secret history: Scotty Bowers on sex and stars in the Golden Era 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

In putting the fetus on display, Dominik has made a tediously literal attempt to depict Monroe’s interior life. The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

What unites these various dimensional planes is an ice cream machine — sometimes literal, sometimes not. Funny Genre-Bending Fiction From the Creators of ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ and the ‘Spy School’ Series 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

The designers cleverly expanded on the armor theme so the more literal interpretations that opened the show moved into swinging metal mesh dresses that were more disco than Dark Ages. Special Report: Fashion: Fluidity and Form 2010-10-01T18:50:00Z

Tsiang’s frustration is palpable: after writing so much about revolution, and being met with nothing but rejection and indifference from “the white world,” his cameo feels like a literal intervention. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

“I like the idea of openness but not literal one-room living.” A tale of two cities, New York style meets London chic 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Mixed with rum, lime, kiwi, rosemary and sugar, the salty punch provides a literal taste of the sea to tipplers drinking in dramatic coastal views from the hotel’s terrace. In Transit Blog: In Italy, a Cocktail With a Splash of the Sea 2013-06-25T20:54:31Z

But upon introduction they were more suggestive than literal, opening up the possibility of drama instead of shutting it down. Review: An Immersive ‘Seeing You’ Sends Its Audience to War 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

Not to be overly literal, but, how about a scuba tank? Television Review: Splish Splash: Fantastical Fish Tales 2011-01-23T23:02:46Z

His words are literal and unemotional, so the visuals need to capture the fantasy world, his sanctuary. Trainspotting, an inside job 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

The apocalypse had come, but youths in all hues of literal and figurative rainbows were bravely persisting, in magical four-part harmony: After the Election, a ‘Whole Foods Democrat’ Returns to Church 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Just as many people mistakenly think of the term “psychopath” as being a diagnosis of mental disorder, many also mistakenly think of psychopaths as necessarily being literal, physical predators, such as serial killers. Why Donald Trump scares you so much — and why it matters 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

The conventional wisdom of the moment is that the future of film belongs not to “film” at all, in the literal sense, but to various forms of digital distribution. Critic?s Notebook: Ushering In Golden Age for Fans of Film 2011-06-14T23:58:21Z

“We wanted to make it literal – how your exterior reflects how you are perceived and whether you are welcomed or rejected in the world – even if you are the same person inside.” Life in our transgender family 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Some believe Mr. Ayah’s prophecies are literal, others believe they are allegory. A Remote Canadian Lake and Its People: Protecting a Last Refuge 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

The literal logo for the entire show is a picture of the Abbey. Downton Abbey the movie: what we learned from the trailer 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

What is literal in Slocum’s book—thousands of miles between ports—becomes figurative in Bascombe’s—the inability of people to understand each other. Frank Bascombe’s Seafaring Foil 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

By the time Mundruczó returns to that scene as something literal, it's a powerful, pure-cinema reminder that the iconography of freedom and uprising needn't only belong to humans. 'White God' gives the child-dog fable a thrilling twist 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Maybe it’s that she is so grimly literal about everything. The Drag Queen Overshares, but the Guru Has Something to Hide 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

A convicted sex offender tries to hang on to a life at the literal and figurative margins of society. 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z

The months go by, and literal winter settles in, the temperature outside matching her mood. ‘Wintering’ Offers Hopeful Perspective on Embracing Difficult Times 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Of course, you’ll miss some of the literal falling from the sky, so we advise you watch the whole thing. Today's Movie Trailer: Skyfall 2012-07-31T15:13:28Z

When the Bible commanded circumcision, was that a metaphorical edict or a literal one? One Man and His Followers Sought Salvation. Did It Exist? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

The legacy of Dent, an activist district attorney turned murderous lunatic, looms over this one, the literal and metaphysical personification of good intentions gone disastrously wrong. | 'The Dark Knight Rises’: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ With Christian Bale 2012-07-18T17:49:45Z

By accepting the amount of sewage, literal and moral, that pervades life in Annawadi, she delivers something much more powerful than an outright indictment. Books of The Times: Katherine Boo?s First Book, ?Behind the Beautiful Forevers? 2012-01-30T23:08:37Z

Gender shapes the spaces – social, conversational, professional, as well as literal – that we are given to occupy. Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

Both serve as stopgap releases, literal or de facto: Drake is still working on “Views From the 6,” his forthcoming fourth album, and Ms. Swift is still on her “1989” tour. Teaming Up, Together (Drake and Future) or Apart (Ryan Adams and Taylor Swift) 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

There were plenty of political artworks before, but they were pretty literal. Art: Southeast Asian Artists Look to the Present 2011-04-27T12:30:05Z

Although he’s literal and serious, he’s no rube, nor is he a naive standard of moral innocence like Mark Twain’s Huck Finn. If you liked ‘Wicked,’ you’ll be enchanted by ‘Hiddensee’ 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Stories of sacrifice, literal and metaphoric, run throughout human history, so of course they have long been reliable cinematic fodder. In ‘A Star Is Born,’ Equality Is Deadly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

She chose a deliberately flat literal rendering, and he decided to use a more poetic term that conveys a sense of a metropolis. ArtsBeat: Translators Get a Slam of Their Own at PEN Festival 2012-05-04T14:33:54Z

I am only guessing, and being quite literal about it. How can I serve the world? 2012-08-06T00:00:00Z

“She dreams to disappear into nature,” Ms. Missoni said, making that seem literal with boots and even the hem of a rust-colored dress apparently rising from primeval mud. Fashion Review: Raf Simons at Jil Sander and Tomas Maier Redefine Sensual 2012-02-26T18:29:25Z

Misrepresentation took on a more literal form in late summer, when The New Yorker magazine’s Shouts & Murmurs blog posted a humor piece, “Sonny Rollins: In His Own Words.” Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

She needs him as her date and her literal life support. REVIEW: The Skeleton Twins: Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Play Saturday Night Dead 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Eugene O’Neill made literal use of the Freudian aspect in his “Oresteia”-inspired “Mourning Becomes Electra,” set in post-Civil War New England. London Theater Journal: The Greeks All Over Again 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

He pointed the way that there was this part of human experience that can’t be described in grammatical, in literal ways. Book Talk: Irish author was told 'didn't fit niche' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Of course, there were triumphs, both literal and figurative. How does a 45-year-old rapper stay relevant in a genre that feeds off youth? 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

A building that once clearly occupied an edge, backed up against an unlovely and highly engineered river, is ready to take up a literal and symbolic place in the middle of something new. Metro's Union Station master plan a significant shift 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

The signage has been ripped from the walls and literal tumbleweed now rolls through the place. Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club: the reality show we really didn't need 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z