nonmetaphorical

"In a nonmetaphorical sense, what's really going to happen to Argan?"

At the same time, by failing to provide a nonmetaphorical rationale for the alien wonders, she undermines her narrative.

As a result, Samuel J. (Joe) Wurzelbacher, of Toledo, Ohio, is the most famous nonmetaphorical plumber since George Meany (Google him, kids).

Yet even here, in such quotidian noticings, there is an intimation of the ethical significance of the nonmetaphorical, nonsymbolic given, the everyday datum of experience that is itself miraculous ("it's real, / it's there / it's life").

The nonmetaphorical closest shave I ever had was at the hands of a hotel barber in London, who soaked my face in a hot, wet towel, then smoothed on various unguents and creams, stropped his straight razor, then minutely scalped every millimeter of my shaving area.