"By taking a literal approach, it could so easily fall into a Disneyland concept," he said.

This 15-artist group show might have taken a less literal, more imaginative approach to its potentially rich theme, but it offers some pleasing pictures.

These days, the only ones not feeling the gas crunch are the restaurateurs who take a literal approach to "fresh, local food."

Some filmmakers have taken a more literal approach to collage film.

They argue, in other words, that a more literal approach to interpretation will better control judicial subjectivity.

That point is that a more literal approach has serious drawbacks.

Mr. Dodge takes a less literal approach to design appropriation in his own work.

"Man on the Moon" takes a much more literal approach to the subject of space.

Even those who take a more literal approach to constitutional interpretation sometimes find consequences and general purposes relevant.

These objectives are desirable, but I do not think the literal approach will achieve them, and, in any event, the constitutional price is too high.