Perhaps something about the drug makes it impossible for users to deny the literal reality of their experience: perhaps it leaves one little part of the brain benignly psychotic.

"It was a literal reality."

But he understands that drama in opera is not dependent on literal reality and sings Lennie's lines with clear diction and vocal elegance, thus ennobling him.

While some corroborated accounts seem to support the literal reality of the abduction experience, others seem to support a psychological explanation for the phenomenon's origins.

But it is the literal reality that is exploited by new devices that detect the work of drug traffickers and terrorists.

Pythagoras (and his entire philosophical school, the Pythagoreans) believed in the literal reality of numbers.

In 1985 Pinter stated that whereas his earlier plays presented metaphors for power and powerlessness, the later ones present literal realities of power and its abuse.

But drama in opera has never been dependent on literal reality.

Additionally, recent biographical sources make it clear that Everett believed in the literal reality of the other quantum worlds.

For the first time he could picture the literal reality behind the destruction he'd threatened on a hundred doorsteps.