literality
literalness

Their view of life and sensibility depends on that literality.

There are questions about revision, interpretation, literality, musical logic and communication to an audience.

As so often with Beckett, the loose clichés assume an eerie literality."

He sought to recover his hard, materialistic sanity, his belief in the safe literality of things.

The lieutenant was interpreting his orders with horrific literality, Miles realized when the man went for a grip on his tongue.

Nobody found it especially easy to impose literality on Mr. Burroughs's sentences, either written or spoken.

The English concentrated on the spirit of the events of Christ's life, not the literality of events.

Hyperrealistic literality of details is not only a stylistic effort, but rather a manifestation of a certain perception of reality.

The debate on the literality of the temptations goes back at least to the discussion of George Benson (d.1762) and Hugh Farmer.

He admitted drawing on personal experiences, but he also declared his refusal to write autobiography, which, he said, "would have enslaved me to the literality of facts."

"And may I say, Princeps Senatus, that to take another man's irony and turn it into your own literality is not good rhetoric!

In regard to style, the Victorians' aim, achieved through far-reaching metaphrase (literality) or pseudo-metaphrase, was to constantly remind readers that they were reading a foreign classic.

While a metaphrase attempts to translate a text literally, a paraphrase conveys the essential thought expressed in a source text - if necessary, at the expense of literality.

Use words like "contextualization," and bandy such phrases as "the perfect paradigm for the slippery dialectic between illusion and literality" or, "expressive rhetoric and the knowing stance of style revisited."

Differing base texts, theological emphasis, style, and translation aims (e.g. readability vs. literality) are just a few of the variables that contribute to the wide range of Bibles available today.

"But Commander," queried the greenish blue Ensign Nick, whose literality seemed to slow him down at times, "even if we restore the cloaking device will not the beam simply find us again and strip it away?"

Tolkien's technique has been seen to "confer literality on what would in the primary world be called metaphor and then to illustrate [in his secondary world] the process by which the literal becomes metaphoric."

"Dynamic equivalence" (or "functional equivalence") conveys the essential thoughts expressed in a source text - if necessary, at the expense of literality, original sememe and word order, the source text's active vs. passive voice, etc.

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 a romantic interest in his weird life.

The film, directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, received mixed reviews: Tim Kroenert writing for Eureka Street described it as "Mad Max-lite" and said that the film "is an example of how literality of translation can result in the sacrifice of the story's essence.

So given that you don't believe in the literality of the events, reject the assumptions of the authors and clearly think that the books are the product of the somewhat limited cultural imaginations of the time(s) of composition - why on earth do you think that they have any value or anything to offer modern society?

Those who believe in inerrancy hold that the scientific, geographic, and historic details of the scriptural texts in their original manuscripts are completely true and without error, though the scientific claims of scripture must be interpreted in the light of its phenomenological nature, not just with strict, clinical literality, which was foreign to historical narratives.

And there is a literalness about the expression "man in the street."

They were also uncomfortable with the literalness of history painting.

He had spoken with the literalness of the red hunter.

He was in no mood for Vulcan literalness at the moment.

Nothing else in the show so effectively illustrates the movement's corporate literalness.

They brought a Teutonic literalness to experimental living and the process of creation.

But there's something kind of nice in the literalness of it."

She knew they were going to see just such giants, but somehow their literalness hadn't registered.

Psychic reality is allowed to evolve as a place separate from the literalness of the physical world.

They take the freedom to ask any question they want with a disconcerting literalness.

They were the upper class in all literalness.

But her stubborn literalness annoyed him so much that he was compelled to respond to it.

In the 1960's, artists turned the literalness of three dimensions into a virtue.

The viewing mind is torn between literalness and abstraction.

"Dreams" has the charming literalness and naïveté of good folk art.

Thus the general characteristic of his version is a bold literalness, which made it acceptable to Jews.

The very literalness of these dreams shocked him.

The lack of literalness accounts for the immense resonance of the work.

Anya often offends people due to her frank honesty and literalness.

Such despotic literalness would only invest the observance with fraudulence.

Unfortunately, this kind of literalness can approach caricature.

There was an exquisite literalness to Pride's remark.

The libretto's storybook qualities are presented with an amusing literalness.

For there, literalness and precision are more the point than allusion and suggestion.