literality

• “And the literality is so funny, and wise in its way too.”

  Lit Crit; ur doin it wrong « Tales from the Reading Room

• “So why the insistence on literality in one instance but the willingness to interpret in the other?”

  Think Progress » Obama on Tea Partiers: “You would think they would be saying, ‘Thank you’” for my tax cuts.

• “This takes the title to a new literalness, literality?”

  Will You Hang On … « Fairegarden

• “I believe that these metaphorical meanings are the real point of the stories, and that those who insist on literality cripple their true meaning.”

  When anti-reason inspires terrorism - The Panda's Thumb

• “Edit eddie, I am not trying to persuade you, or me, of anything, and certainly not of the literality of Genesis.”

  When anti-reason inspires terrorism - The Panda's Thumb

• “A President exists in the straitjacket of literality.”

  Dear red staters the GOP is playing blood-stained politics with our military.

• “I'm no scholar, but when you ask them what they think about how the Book of Job is translated in the AngloSaxon version, versus the septuagint, and point out that if all these texts were considered canonical when they're contradictory then there's a problem with literality... they back of slowly as you chase them asking their thoughts on the dead sea scrolls :”

  Disability and Freethinking

• “Without any endeavour to correct the literality of this opinion, Jasper surveys his companion — covered from head to foot with old mortar, lime, and stone grit — as though he, Jasper, were getting imbued with”

  The Mystery of Edwin Drood

• “The deep inner truth inherent in cinema," he tells Cronin in the course of an attack on the relative literality of cinema verite, "can be discovered only by not being bureaucratically, politically, and mathematically correct.”

  Newsweek: The Holy Mythmaker

• “The point of conflict between fundamentalists and others is not over *literality* but over”

  Take Those Days Literally!

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