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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
literalize .
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Examples
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The problem is that this film literalizes a long-ago discounted metaphor about schizophrenics a word that is never used in the film; instead, there is an allusion to the relatively benign diagnosis of "mania", a metaphor that is meant to remain simply that.
Robert David Jaffee: Mel's "Beaver" Is No Mad Man Robert David Jaffee 2011
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His new novel takes up his current mood of gloom and literalizes it with a bluntness that sometimes appears to be deliberately comic.
A Master Back in the Saddle Lee Sandlin 2011
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Of course the whole idea of reading Leibniz through modern nightlife and vice versa literalizes a cultural philosophy and philosophy of culture.
Rei Terada 2008
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You can be stupid about what you literalize, but everybody literalizes something.
"Who painted it?" asked Hillary Clinton, unaware that "the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously imprinted by Mary." Ann Althouse 2009
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As Chabrol unexpectedly literalizes and visualizes his title that perfect metaphor for a girl not only torn between two men but torn apart by a societal framework with no respect for her he lingers on a gorgeous, affecting, poignant closeup of Gabrielle, struggling to appear as detached and unconcerned as everyone else in the film, but still unable to keep a single tear from running down her face.
A Girl Cut In Two Ed Howard 2008
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In a way, the story literalizes Homi Bhabha's theories of mimicry and hybridity.
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As Chabrol unexpectedly literalizes and visualizes his title that perfect metaphor for a girl not only torn between two men but torn apart by a societal framework with no respect for her he lingers on a gorgeous, affecting, poignant closeup of Gabrielle, struggling to appear as detached and unconcerned as everyone else in the film, but still unable to keep a single tear from running down her face.
Archive 2008-09-01 Ed Howard 2008
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In a way, the story literalizes Homi Bhabha's theories of mimicry and hybridity.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection 2008
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A few days ago I posted a poem by Richard Wilbur which similarly literalizes the dilemma, and uses clearing the "sill of the world" as the metaphor for transcending it:
Metaphors 1 Bruce Schauble 2007
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Cuaron's script literalizes the warning that the excess and indifference of one generation will be its legacy to the next.
Archive 2007-01-01 N A 2007
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