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literalize

VERB
  1. make literal
    literalize metaphors

How To Use literalize In A Sentence

  • If there are good internal literary reasons why the author of Mark might have invented this story as the conclusion of his work, then the community that was the presumptive audience for the gospel simply may not have perceived the embarrassment that arose later, as other communities adopted and literalized the narrative invented in Mark. Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity
  • I mean, I'm very aware of the fact that I personally am not who I was 20 or even 10 years ago, but he uses some SF to literalize this concept and explore it further. The Last Colony
  • His writer voice is so big, I thought to literalize it is going to actually harm it. Key Character to Be Animated in Soderbergh’s Moneyball | /Film
  • literalize metaphors
  • The award-winning sculptor of found footage has become a contemporary ambassador of the technique largely thanks to his 2002 film "Decasia," which literalized its title by turning physically distressed footage into quicksilver sequences of eerie beauty. A Filmmaker Mines History for Meaning
  • I wanted to literalize the sacrifices and headspace that Timas is in. Archive 2009-01-01
  • Unfortunately, the ideological collision of the two masterminds is something I wish Ritchie would have applied more heat to early on, as it simmers on low for too long, and is left undercooked by the time the figurative chess match they've engaged in for two films is literalized in a pay-off that should be familiar to anyone who's read Doyle's "The Final Solution," the only story where the two actually meet. Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
  • Also on hand were a pair of sculptures, cut from sheets of particle board, that literalize Scheibitz's constructive process of form-building.
  • Note 297: In the following century, through the writings of Sebastiano Serlio and fabrications of Andrea Palladio and Vincenzo Scamozzi, the ideal city would be literalized as a civic setting for theatrical performance. back Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • As if to literalize the longing of the title, a breathtakingly extended axle-like element joins a towering wheel to a tall woven hive shape.
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