| 11. | It is not the literalness or the goofy Buster Keatonish humor that's startling.
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| 12. | In his novel, Canin illuminates both these realms, those of metaphor and literalness.
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| 13. | But there's something kind of nice in the literalness of it ."
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| 14. | It was autobiographical, except the extremeness of it and the literalness of it was not.
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| 15. | His aim is to avoid a one-sidedness of literalness as well as of allegory.
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| 16. | Psychic reality is allowed to evolve as a place separate from the literalness of the physical world.
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| 17. | Score-bound literalness, what used to be called historical authenticity, as ever killeth the spirit.
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| 18. | To admit that the literalness of film might surpass the stimulus to the imagination of Austen's language.
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| 19. | "Star Kid " was written and directed by Manny Coto with deadly literalness and minimal imagination.
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| 20. | Morvern takes this with numbed literalness, deleting his name from the manuscript and submitting it as her own.
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