This is a situation where literal accuracy doesn't count.

A writer should be able to write in any voice she likes, and invented feelings may have a power and an authenticity that transcend literal accuracy.

The debate over the fairness of the coverage is about such subtleties as tone and emphasis rather than literal accuracy.

At issue, it seems to me, is not literal accuracy but credibility.

The memo would enable the President to say, with literal accuracy, that there was no authorization.

"Trust" is quite possibly a more up-to-date reflection of today's yuppified, multicultural London, but literal accuracy is not much of a selling point in television drama.

Not until the Restoration, however, did translators switch their attention from literal accuracy to elegance.

Matheson argues that this represents a "lack of concern for literal accuracy that the reader cannot help but suspect is characteristic of the entire work".

Under other hands, this orchestra has sounded more concerned with beauty of tone than literal accuracy.

Indeed, one of the virtues of courtroom photography is the literal accuracy of what the pictures and sound portray.