I don't know why one can't chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, g
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Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
The literal alternatives to [abortion] are suicide, motherhood, and, some would add, madness. Consequently, there is some confusio
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Preschoolers think and talk in concrete, literal terms. When they hear a phrase such as "losing your temper," they may wonder wher
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It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
I know only one person whom I could count on not to indulge herself in ... conventional falsehoods, and she has never been able, s
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It would seem that the film maker is able to exert a greater degree of control over his medium than the writer since the image of
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Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-a
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Poets ... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individua
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