| 单词 | literalness |
| 例句 | Like Charles, he had stopped believing in the literalness of the Bible. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Such literalness is one reason Macklemore is the most popular rapper in Seattle. Macklemore is back with a little help from his friends 2012-10-08T13:01:24Z Recently, and more originally, Bey has fought against the camera’s literalness — its insistence on showing what’s there — by trying to imagine precisely what isn’t there. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Its literalness is uncharacteristic of her more abstract work. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z A strain of careful literalness pervades many of these works, as if they are nervously eyeing the discourse. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Such images are great fun to look at, though it can be argued that their literalness limits rather than extends the imagination, while mixing the metaphors of theatrical art. Hamlet and the Surveillance State of Denmark 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Photography’s profoundest limitation is its mechanistic nature, which can bind it to a literalness and a brittle understanding of time. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z It pushes the innovations of Jasper Johns’s flag paintings toward greater literalness. Art In Review: GEORGE ORTMAN: Constructions: 1949-2011 2012-02-24T00:10:48Z Had I tried all the asanas, the corpse position might have taken on a grisly literalness. My first adventure in yoga: less cobra, more corpse 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Others are stultifying in their literalness — simple digital translations of existing symbols. Look Who’s Smiley Now: MoMA Acquires Original Emoji 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The literalness of the exercise emphasizes the slipperiness of time, shining a garish spotlight on mortality and lending a tragic depth to the most venal of reunion specials. Victory Speech (Hillary’s Version) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z While he uses notions of meaninglessness as a way of commenting on culture's gruesome obsession with literalness, it is a little self-dramatising of him to say his work is entirely without meaning. Carl Andre: 'I'm a hopeless drawer – and a terrible painter' 2013-01-23T19:00:01Z But the literalness of the pinned-up presentation seems sculptural, as does the way the works change as the humidity rises or falls, and in the process implicates the entire room as a volume. Art In Review: THOMAS KOVACHEVICH: ?Alpenglow? 2012-03-22T20:34:53Z In “Zombie” they become undead creatures, but it is only the literalness that makes you want to scream. Dance Review: Chase Brock Experience at the Connelly Theater 2010-07-09T21:37:00Z Dryer pitted the literalness of her paintings against thin, sometimes streaky applications of paint for results that are witty and startling, assertive yet suffused with a delicate, poetic atmosphere. Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:13:41Z But when it errs, it errs on the side of literalness rather than falseness, of plainness rather than pretension. Review: ‘Bosch’ and the Art of the Pure Police Procedural 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z This literalness almost ruined the scene for me. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z Alas, despite appealing actors, handsome drawing rooms and impressive estates, “the story’s lone joke and its grinding literalness grow dull,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Fall’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z In the other, far more abstracted, such lyricism and literalness has been excised, physically obliterated, along with part of the figure, with strong vertical abstract strokes. De Kooning exhibit highlights tension between portraiture, abstraction 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The problem with much of contemporary horror, according to Kent, is its literalness. ‘Babadook’ director Jennifer Kent talks about women making horror movies 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The trick, she explains, is to rise above literalness and "get the smell of it, breathe it in, see if you can exhale it – that is all you can do". Anne-Marie Duff: 'I wondered if I should lie about my background' 2013-05-19T05:00:03Z Price, an English professor at Rutgers University and a book historian, is especially interested in books as material objects — not just for their literariness, that is, but for their literalness too. Recalling a Time When Books Could Give You Indigestion 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Some of the cat’s most comically absurd escapades are entirely consistent with the look-and-say method, minus the terrible literalness that Hersey decried. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The literalness of film and the creaky conventions of the biopic threaten to dissolve that strangeness, to domesticate genius into likable quirkiness. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z In perhaps the game’s low point for literalness, Walker and his men come across a tortured, charred body dangling upside down from a piece of rope. Video Game Review: Spec Ops: The Line, From 2K Games, Makes Killing Personal 2012-06-25T16:34:27Z It gives a gruesome literalness to the tired idea of a culture war, turning bellicose rhetoric into actual murder. | 'Red State': Kevin Smith?s ?Red State? - Review 2011-09-23T04:03:27Z While his ambivalence to criticism merits some laughs, “literalness and a lack of interest in social norms are not enough to sustain a series,” Margaret Lyons wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Young Sheldon’ and ‘The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper’ 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z It's a dark reading in every sense: Miller reproduces the oppressive gloom of gas-lit drawing rooms with a literalness that risks eye-strain. Rutherford and Son – review 2013-02-14T18:02:44Z In the British art world, she is respected and liked, as well as famous for her tactlessness, which might be understood as a certain blunt literalness. Interview: Penelope Curtis 2010-11-30T21:30:00Z To admit that the literalness of film might surpass the stimulus to the imagination of Austen’s language. 20 Years Ago: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Was Reborn on TV 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z I’m thinking specifically about the beautiful monstrosity called, with knuckle-dragging literalness, the “pancake burger.” Review | Two breakfast ‘sandwiches’ that demand your undivided attention 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Staszewski calls it “performance art” aimed at “making it possible to visualize the literalness and meaning of the harmful documents.” Under fire over LGBT rights, Polish leader blames activist 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Although Holden thinks lots of things are funny, he hasn’t much sense of humor; he has the deadpan literalness and the all-or-nothing combativeness of the passionate adolescent. Reading “The Catcher in the Rye” in 1951 1951-08-04T04:00:00Z And as for whether the president is acting presidential, Mr. Goldberg says, “literalness is on his side”: Whatever the president does is, by definition, presidential. Right and Left React to Trump’s Norm-Defying Tweets 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z To a new speaker of the language, English idioms retain a troubling trace of literalness long after they are understood. Poetry of a Childhood Lost 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The director didn’t seem to trust his audience to take those seminal Christian events seriously unless he presented them with dogged literalness. A ‘Faith-Based Film’ Rises Above the Usual 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z In his literalness, his relentless candor, his practicality, Carter was the Toyota engineer by the side of the road doggedly lecturing us on how to drive the car. How Do We Build a Safer Car? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z A stunning third-act sequence, when the director briefly sets the characters free from the literalness that binds them, isn’t just a bold visual move, but elevates the story that’s gone before. ‘The Theory of Everything’ movie review: More than Stephen Hawking’s story "We catch the Americans smiling at our Queen with her secret mystery," he wrote, with a suggestion that Paine and his kind were prisoners of their own "literalness". Why do we love our monarchy? 2012-05-29T01:45:40Z No writer is more Roman in the stateliness and dignity, the terseness, occasionally even in the sobriety and bare literalness, of his diction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Hunt, Plate 35, adds that truthfulness of detail, that literalness of statement made possible by the antiquarian and the archæologist. The Great Painters' Gospel Pictures Representing Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ 2012-01-07T03:00:14.777Z Mr. Van Noppen's translation of the Lucifer in this book is one for which he claims literalness to a close extent; but its fluency is not the less to be noted. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z And then the heavens opened, the fountains of the great deeps were broken down, and with absolute literalness the floods descended. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z The Biblical descriptions of heaven she accepted in all their literalness. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z In general, the writer will do well to use while only with strict literalness, in the sense of during the time that. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z Hofmann, Plate 52, with his usual literalness, gives Jesus the whip of small cords, and represents him as actively aggressive. The Great Painters' Gospel Pictures Representing Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ 2012-01-07T03:00:14.777Z To deny the literalness of these sacrifices does violence to the Word of God. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z Unhappily for the literalness of the truth, it is Lactantius who tells the story. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z If we contend for the literalness of this story we shall make its invaluable lessons of no effect for many people. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z He glanced rapidly around the group, and then in some embarrassment replied with awkward literalness, "I left my horse with the others at the entrance of the ca�on." Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z As the oak-leaf is consistent with the whole tree, so in art, the degree of literalness in one direction must be justified by a corresponding degree in another. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Robert saw all the inconveniences in their unvarnished literalness. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Symbolism and literalness, in Dante's time, and in his practice, are simultaneous. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Somehow the exact scientific bent of his mind and its literalness in all matters pertaining to science would lead us to expect that. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z “I don’t think people are doctrinaire about the literalness of what the name means,” Mr. Low of Kraft said. Advertising: Don?t Call It a Cracker: Wheat Thins Prefers to Be Billed as a Snack 2011-01-05T00:20:05Z With desperate literalness she clutched at the phrase. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z It is characterized by extreme literalness, and clearly reflects the peculiar system of exegesis which was then in vogue among the Jewish rabbis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The curtailment has necessitated, in some chapters, a certain amount of adaptation, and a slight departure from strict literalness of rendering; but it is hoped that the spirit of the original has nowhere been sacrificed. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z His pious pictures have a certain Teutonic literalness added to their mystical quality that gives them distinction. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z This literalness, though unpleasing from a literary standpoint, gives to many of their ancient versions the value almost of a Greek codex of the age in which the version was made. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" “Nothing of the sort,” said the sheriff hastily, lapsing into literalness. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus It was apparently an attempt to replace the literary freedom of the Philoxenian by an extreme literalness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Perfect and absolute literalness, it must be remembered, can only be expected of a prose version, and even after the most perfect metrical translation a prose version may be as needful as ever. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow He hastened to correct its literalness though not its import. Shadows of Flames A Novel The literalness of the saying "making a living by the sweat of one's brow" dawned upon her for the first time. By Right of Conquest A Novel Of his literalness some amusing anecdotes have been told. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Its value consists Syro-Hexaplar. in the extreme literalness of the translation, which renders it possible to recover the Greek original with considerable certainty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z His literalness shows in Black Rock, Standing Stone, Sharp Top, Twenty Mile, Naked Place, The Pocket, Tumbling Creek, and in the endless designations taken from trees, plants, minerals, or animals noted on the spot. Our Southern Highlanders Law-zombies, memorizing and following laws and being honest with a simple and terrifying literalness. The Man Who Staked the Stars Then he figured a literalness in his phrasing. Where I Wasn't Going A gospel it is, in all literalness; an evangel; a message of glad tidings. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' The significance, the spirit of the address is of greater worth than mere literalness. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories “From Hess’s farm, back up the road a piece,” she replied with her usual unemotional literalness. Anything Once And so, resuming our discourse, Stephen, which only my sense of your invincible literalness would ever have interrupted, what are you going to do with us? The Passionate Friends The Cow wasn't likely to be wrong, though her appalling literalness was such that an improperly phrased question might make her seem to be. Where I Wasn't Going He came as a shepherd to a deserted sheepfold; he came to preach the Bible doctrines in their literalness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 He had more than the normal English sensitiveness where ideals were concerned and more than the normal English instinct for a protective literalness. Tante His mind is characterized by the literalness, rather than the comprehensive grasp of great subjects. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. This was really, she saw, the same question over again, which was another instance of his heavy literalness. The Prisoner In all such matters, absolute accuracy, absolute literalness, wherever attainable, is surely the one thing necessary. Aino Folk-Tales The same literalness appeared in his selection of "Swear not at all" as one of the cardinal commandments, and in his application of it to the oaths of the court and of the state. William Penn "Oh, well, if you like to air your powers of irony at the expense of such painful literalness!" A Christmas Accident and Other Stories Indeed, there was a greater need, if possible, of literalness in rendering the less than the greater work, while the temptations to "improvement" and modification of the original must have been even more constant. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Going on through the selection the reader will find frequently some happy change from literalness,—sometimes just a word, sometimes a phrase. English: Composition and Literature The speaker was incapable of making allowance for oriental excess in Bible language; it suited her position as an advocate to take the hyperbolic words of Jesus in an occidental literalness. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Or we shall copy with a hopeless effort after literalness the first face or weed we meet, and call the imperfect, mechanical result a work of art. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 The exuberance of my style has been pruned down to literalness by the relentless shears of a cold world. A Christmas Accident and Other Stories The picture is not to be interpreted with absurd literalness; but it does contain a serious warning, and behind its figures of speech are solemn realities. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition Luther's advice was followed with terrible literalness by the German rulers, and the nobility took fearful revenge for the depredations of the peasants. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe “That means a Knight Commander of the Bath,” she said with her English literalness. The Prairie Mother But in this respect the first part of the poem is vastly superior to the later parts, though all three are marred by extreme literalness. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography My intention, indeed, has been to render my original word for word, and to err, if at all, in favour of literalness. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi They took his words with absurd literalness and they said, “Lord, behold, here are two swords.” The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition They also adopted, as the Mennonites did, the Sermon on the Mount as the basis of their ethical standard, which they applied with literalness and rigour. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries A wonderful story; how far in literalness true is of no manner of moment to us; the myth, and power of it, do manifest the nature of the French kingdom, and prophesy its future destiny. Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens Now, literalness and common sense are the qualities of the average uninstructed spectator, and The Way of the World was high over the heads of its audience. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] But it is perhaps better for avoiding the Charybdis of literalness. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Every touch is delightful—although all is literal the literalness is all humour. Pickwickian Studies Similarly Volumnia’s stirring appeal to her son and her son’s proffer of submission, in act V. sc. iii. 94-193, reproduce with equal literalness North’s rendering of Plutarch. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Misunderstanding her literalness of mind, he moved away, and shortly afterwards re-entered the house. Elder Conklin Why Chapman and later translators should have fixed upon extreme literalness as the besetting fault of their predecessors and contemporaries, it is hard to see. Early Theories of Translation The old phrase, indeed, was gaining a new fulfilment: the mountain was coming to Mahomet in all literalness. The Brentons They all laughed at the extreme literalness of Archie's interpretation, which Charlie declared would probably have afforded the great poet himself unbounded satisfaction. Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission He again adhered to the text of Plutarch with the utmost literalness, and at times—even in the great crises of the action—repeated North’s translation word for word. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Nothing we ever do is in strict scientific literalness wiped out. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power This commission was performed with Teutonic literalness, for each of the professors interviewed was greeted abruptly with the somewhat startling question, "Professor, can you bray?" The University of Michigan And then, "Don't be profane, Scott," she rebuked him, with the literalness which had replaced her meagre childish sense of humour. The Brentons Elder Skates stood with a lesson paper in his hand, from which he asked questions with painful literalness and adherence to the text. Vesty of the Basins The translation here given makes no profession of absolute, verbal literalness. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The free character which distinguished prophetism in the religion of Israel changed, after the return of the people from captivity, especially with the party of the Pharisees, to literalness and formalism. A Comparative View of Religions Here Mr. Brooks has sacrificed to literalness an opportunity to sort the confused clauses and stop their jostling: this may be done without diluting the sentiment, and is within the translator's liberty. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Other story-tellers have done that with painful literalness, and nothing is drearier than the dead accounts of the butcher and baker, necessary as they are. One Woman's Life Under his touch the symphony, that most rigid and abstract and venerable of forms, was actually displaying some of the novel's narrative and analytical power, its literalness and concreteness of detail. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Their meaning, on the other hand, was capable of varying shades of significance; but Iris was far too amazed to seek depths beneath their literalness. The Stowaway Girl This laconic utterance was the first intimation which Tom had that anything special was brewing in the neighborhood, and he answered with characteristic literalness, "All right, I will." Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer But the shot glanced off harmlessly from the thick armor of British literalness. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) By this theory the words of James who writes, "Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death" are interpreted with strict literalness. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Even small Maizie awoke to tiny dreams, her literalness for moments drowned out. Suzanna Stirs the Fire It has the literalness 451 / 397 noticeable in much of the Welsh religious poetry, and there is a note of pietism in it. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes This process ought to be repeated several times, the aim being always for similarity, not for literalness of effect. Pen Drawing An Illustrated Treatise Leonardo is the one artist of whom it may be said with perfect literalness: Nothing that he touched but turned into a thing of eternal beauty. The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance With An Index To Their Works Yet the literalness of Mr. W. M. Rossetti makes him obtuse here, as he and other commentators seem to be in their understanding of Browning throughout this stanza. Men and Women It's strange that Maizie, with all her literalness, can understand at times Suzanna's disappointments when her fancies are not given due value. Suzanna Stirs the Fire But this very character of literalness gives to the Philoxenian version high authority in respect to textual criticism. Companion to the Bible "It might," she said, "be well for the modern realist to remember that literalness is not the same as truth, nor curiosity as courage." Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences The translation in the text reproduces the sense with sufficient literalness. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints It is akin to an intense literalness of perception, of which we might find an example on every page Mr. Trollope has written. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Death puts off his skeleton, and appears as a solemn, draped figure; but in many cases the clerical poet is "taken at his word," with a literalness more startling than dignified. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 It has been the habit of pious souls to attempt to understand and describe this life, and many are the volumes which proceed upon the literalness of the Bible descriptions. The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers Yet we overlook literalness, charmed as we are by the development of his characters and by the sweet burden of his story. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 True thinking about Bible truths.—What, then, shall we teach the child about the literalness of the Bible? How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods In the raciness, oddity, literalness, realism, and close connection of their names with the scriptures of their system, the Buddhists quite equal the British Puritans. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji But I am not sure that it should be pressed to absolute literalness. The First Soprano My predecessor Ireland, however, did so, and saw an amusing piece of literalness introduced into Hamlet. A Wanderer in Holland Their motto was then, "Search the Scriptures," and they did search them with a literalness and a painstaking thoroughness never since repeated. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala When the young child first hears the entrancing Bible stories he does not think anything about their literalness; he only enjoys, and perhaps dimly senses the hidden lesson or truth they contain. How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods "He was well when I saw him the day before yesterday: at least he said nothing to the contrary," answered Alick with his conscientious literalness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Ah, but my paraphrasing has not led me far from the literalness of the text! The First Soprano There is occasionally a startling literalness in the way the painter has rendered some of the verses. Italian Journeys There must always be some people, however, to whom the literalness and sincerity of them has a charm.... Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems It may here be asked how could I recall with any literalness the conversations and events of a time so long past. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars One of his most diverting "properties" is the set of "morals" he draws to everything, of nonsensical literalness and infantile gravity, the perfection of solemn fooling. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 The credit for verbal literalness of translation is with Prout, but the spirit of the fiddler of Béranger glows through the free rendition of Field. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 Her engagement to him was due, I imagined, not so much to her literalness as to her mother's management. People Like That Mrs. Muir repeated the conversation to her sister, with the literalness of which only unimaginative women are capable. A Young Girl's Wooing So we see that it was an Eskimo mother who first crooned in love and literalness, "By-o, Baby Bunting, Daddy's gone a-hunting, To get a little rabbit-skin, To wrap his Baby Bunting in." The New North In all literalness the miners kept their gold-dust in tin cans and similar receptacles, on shelves, unguarded in tents or open cabins. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado However, the present version may, from its very literalness, have and interest for some readers. Poems "I don't see any of it," she remarked with wholesome literalness. The Mettle of the Pasture And because he was the first portrait-painter of his day, was he not reproduced with all his faults of literalness and dryness by a legion of imitators? In the Days of My Youth Robert Browning also translated the play, with appalling literalness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Then ensued the brief period so affectionately described in all literalness as the Arcadian Age. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado He warns his readers at the outset that they must not look for a stupid literalness in his account. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 How shall we explain these inconsistencies, and, at the same time, grant Mr. Sawyer his claim to literalness of rendering? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 In speaking one frequently raps out a phrase whose literalness one's eyes warn the listener to question. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 He must stamp out their delicate and lovable redundancy, leaving the Catholic to shudder at his literalness. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature She was a long, lean, pale person, habited apparently in a dull-colored dressing gown, and she spoke with a kind of mild literalness. The Aspern Papers "Take off my bonnet?" said Mrs. Bread, with timid literalness. The American Moreover, the child will apply what he hears with fatal exactness and literalness. Your Child: Today and Tomorrow "It is a part of England, of course," replied the young lady, with calm literalness. A Fair Barbarian By very dint of downright literalness—though not, by-the-bye, always downright accuracy—any true notion of the Author's meaning is quite obscured. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 Then, it may be, she thought that if necessity demanded this lover-like pose, she ought to redeem its literalness by conversation. The Wheel O' Fortune His general theory may be stated as an aim at something between the literalness of metaphrase and the looseness of paraphase. Among My Books First Series Yet it is a belief that must have been sorely tried since the invention of the camera has brought the verse-writer's countenance, in all its literalness, before the general public. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Each house in this poor man's purgatory was, indeed, and in awful literalness, a brick box with a slate top to it. Hide and Seek "There is one curious case," the young doctor responded with masculine literalness. The Web of Life Here, as in the Georgics, Cato and Varro live in Virgil, but with far less of narrow literalness, with far more of rich enthusiasm. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius I desire to be understood with mathematical literalness. The Opium Habit Misunderstanding her literalness of mind, he moved away, and shortly afterwards re- entered the house. Elder Conklin and Other Stories The man carried out his order with almost alarming literalness, but Providence watched over us and we reached the Foreign Office without disaster. A Rogue by Compulsion "Don't scoff, dear lady," he returned warningly; "too great literalness is the sin of womankind, you know." The Battle Ground Enough that it covered with uncommon literalness—for the Conqueror's memory was prodigious—the suggestions of the Prince of India already quoted respecting the duties of the agent in Constantinople. The Prince of India — Volume 02 Sam said, with the curious literalness of the poetic temperament, entirely devoid of humor. The Awakening of Helena Richie The photograph is an utter misrepresentation of life, and this not merely because of its false shades and its lack of colour, but because the photographer is not content with literalness. Without Prejudice But she still answered with a literalness that took one's breath away. Little Miss By-The-Day It is an extremely careful but unsympathetic analysis of the Gospel accounts, emphasizing all the inconsistencies and interpreting them with a literalness that they can ill sustain. Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Her feminine mind pounced on the gross literalness of his rhetorical figure. The Red Planet She looked up at him with sudden literalness. On the Firing Line They went rather to the opposite extreme, to the cultivation of a rigid and iconoclastic literalness. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Grimly conscientious was Gideon Welles, likewise prosaic; a masterpiece of literalness, the very opposite in almost every respect of the Secretary of State whom he cordially detested. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War In contemplating such a scheme of celestial mechanics as that just outlined, one cannot avoid raising the question as to just the degree of literalness which the Egyptians themselves put upon it. A History of Science — Volume 1 |
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