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literal adjective accurate, authentic, careful, close, correct, exact, factual, faithful, faultless, meticulous, precise, rigid, scrupulous, strict, textual, to the letter, true, true to fact, truthful, unchanged, uncorrupted, undeviating, unembroidered, unerring, unexaggerated, unmetaphorical, unvaried, unvarnished, verbatim, without exaggeration, word for word Associated concepts: literal interpretation See also: accurate, actual, authentic, exact, factual, faithful, honest, narrow, orthodox, parochial, precise, strict, true, verbatim How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This poignant illustration of devastated motherhood exemplifies the problematics of literalizing Beloved on screen. In Love, Morrison continues her exploration of this topic by literalizing love not merely as an emotion, not what one purportedly feels towards another; rather, she portrays love as an act, leading to the question: how does one "do" love? Either way, it had more to do with painting than literalizing a Newman zip into a flag's stripe. |
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