It was a question meant in the most literal sense.

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

Let its government, in the most literal and awful sense of the words, give them beans.

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

That pattern was like the cut of a knife in a most literal sense.

Even film, the most literal of all the arts, is edited.

It was in the most literal sense a cry for help.

Even before the show opened, displacement in its most literal sense became an issue.

The word "battle" should be taken in the most literal sense.

By the end of an hour, we had bonded in the most literal sense.