But atop the opera house, Jean Paucton, 69, is busy with bees in a more literal fashion.

His body had been drained in a fashion far more literal than that of human intercourse.

He tends to treat the Bible in a literal fashion, as if New Testament scholarship didn't exist.

Better he be allowed to rest in peace as a victim of accident, which I suppose in a strictly literal fashion he was.

She does this in almost literal fashion as she watches for repeated mannerisms typical of that animal.

In Long Beach, people are swimming against the tide in less literal fashion as well.

She took him in tow, stripping him of his armor in literal and figurative fashion.

Some poetry is 'true' in just this literal fashion.

The two coaches are part of a Holiday Festival that is living up to its name in literal fashion this year.

Of the robots, One was the simplest and, consequently, the one who took orders in the most literal fashion.