But in a way the results were still too literal.

Of course, never before had the name been quite so literal.

But never before in his work has the idea become so literal.

She was now a woman in a very literal, important sense.

And called they were, in the literal sense of the word.

And in a very literal sense, they were still out.

"You do have a right to be left alone in the most literal sense."

These people play at what they do all day, in the most literal sense of the word.

I had told him the literal truth about many things.

He'd even found love, in the literal sense of the word.

He was the most literal man she had ever met.

The government has no way to bank the money in a literal sense.

For example, on the first reading, maybe only the literal level makes sense.

Well, how literal should women be when following the rules?

When people ask me that, they mean it in the literal sense.

This was, in the most literal sense, the moment of truth.

It was a question meant in the most literal sense.

It does not use a word in its basic literal sense.

Here, in a literal sense, they were above it all.

This may be hard to believe but it is the literal truth.

"But I have a feeling you mean it in a more literal sense."

So in many cases the literal meaning of a word does not make any sense.

We cannot expect anyone to follow them in any literal sense.

The notion of family within the department is often a literal one.

Advertising in the literal sense is what we need to do.