literal description

The literal description of these tests seems completely wrong to me.

The play's title is not a gag; it's a literal description.

The four steps are not necessarily an adequate literal description of what historically happens.

These, he says, should be interpreted as literal descriptions which have changed during the passage of time and become more obscure.

The characters' literal descriptions are provided above, but we will go into functionality and symbolism below.

I don't mean this as an empty gesture of literary piety but as a literal description.

"A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space."

Thus Mr. O'Brien gets beyond literal descriptions of what these men went through.

Truth stared at it, realizing that the clich "giddy with relief" was nothing more than a literal description.

The events that it describes didn't actually happen and it is wrong to read the text as a literal description of events.

It may be that this is a simple iconographic theme rather than a literal description of Spartan life at that period.

That's poetic by the standards of Hong Kong, where the demand for literal descriptions has produced some jarring results.

That's almost a literal description.

This earthman was giving a literal description of a launching pad with waiting pilots on a stand-by detail.

It is never grounded in literal description but neither is her work only formal, concerned with movement for its own sake or with structures alone.

Ifs a literal description, friends.

The lyrics are fairly straightforward, giving a literal description of the turmoil encountered by the narrator during a "series of dreams."

It reads the images of picking water grasses as literal descriptions of the queen's activities in preparation for ritual sacrifices.

Its best literal descriptions are given by Herodotus and Xenophon in his Anabasis.

Some of the Chinese menus are written in a classical form, where the emphasis is on poetry and rhyme and not on a literal description.

The picture of the world presented in Buddhist cosmological descriptions cannot be taken as a literal description of the shape of the universe.

The Church accepted the use of heliocentrism as a calculating device, but opposed it as a literal description of the solar system.

Still, enough appeared younger than forty to make it quite obvious that "Elders" was a term of respect rather than entirely a literal description of age.

Its name lamina papyracea is a literal description, as this part of the ethmoid bone is paper-thin and fractures easily.

The term 'cut and paste' is a very literal description of what all authors had to do with paper manuscripts, whether hand-written or typed, in the process of revision.