How to Use literalism in a Sentence

literalism

noun

• Yet even when the pain of censorship and social death surfaces with such violent literalism, nothing comes of it.
  — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• Hansen-Løve is little concerned by literalism, either in the movie’s form or in her characters’ dialogue.
  — Annie Geng, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2021
• Lyrically, country music is all about literalism, something that’s rarely been Tweedy’s strong suit.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2022
• As Colbert showed, Old Testament literalism makes for a nice belief system.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 28 Sep. 2017
• In the late 19th century, Christian abolitionists countered the literalism of white supremacists by appealing to the Bible as a whole.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2022
• Some of them may be well known to Israeli viewers, but even so, the effect — and perhaps the intention — is to disorient the audience and strip away the literalism of historical dramatizations.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2016
• It’s through his arc that the literalism of the Mael brothers’ story meets Carax’s expressive urgency—but, rather than augment each other, the two prove mutually inhibiting.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• Barrett has condemned as a canard the widespread view that textualism is literalism.
  — Ed Whelan, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
• At that point, the allusions Aster has so tantalizingly built up disintegrate into graphic gore and on-the-nose literalism.
  — Ann Hornaday, kansascity, 7 June 2018
• His cooking today forgoes some of its former literalism (those papas a la huancaina are gone) and instead centers on Peruvian cuisine’s core tenets.
  — Patric Kuh, Los Angeles Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
• Even in productions that aspire to greater subtlety, a grinding literalism threatens—a dutiful hitting of marks.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• Whose happiness is prioritized in a family? — capture both kid-brain literalism and the bigger, harder questions of growing up.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 28 July 2022
• Given the dangers of biblical literalism, Christians should stop taking every word of Holy Writ literally.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2022
• Or are the critics making that argument engaged in an absurd form of literalism, refusing to recognize ironic discourse even though it’s been repeatedly pointed out to them?
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 8 Aug. 2018
• Yet despite its reliance upon metaphor and genre, it feels predicated upon a kind of moral literalism — or perhaps simply obviousness.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2021
• Religious literalism substitutes certainty for mystery; so does a sudden rupture with the past.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
• John McDermott's sets and Les Dickert's lighting, while maintaining the minimalist aesthetic that keeps a cool distance from literalism, are colorful and sprightly.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• The big- city journalists reported that Darrow had revealed Bryan’s ignorance and the absurdity of his biblical literalism.
  — Time Staff, Time, 28 June 2018
• But critics say it is plagued by the same sort of literalism and adherence to historic texts of interpretation that radicals thrive on and that feed intolerance and discrimination against women and minorities, including Christians.
  — Hamza Hendawi, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
• And both have been criticized by fundamentalist and other more conservative religious thinkers who accuse them of not hewing to the most stringently doctrinaire biblical literalism.
  — Alex Johnson, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2018
• As theologists, philosophers, explorers, and mapmakers debated what might lie at the planet’s very top, a picture emerged rooted in mythology, astrology and biblical literalism.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2019
• Both rejected modernism in favor of Biblical literalism.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 22 Feb. 2018
• For a new generation of balladeers, this literalism also comes with an emphasis on psychoanalytical problem-solving.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 22 May 2021
• Beyond the biblical literalism of allied evangelicals, newly sophisticated ways of attacking environmental sciences arose that appealed to doubt and uncertainty, coins of the scientific realm itself.
  — Christopher Sellers, Vox, 6 July 2018
• Christian fundamentalism goes beyond religious conservatism, as fundamentalism is a radical conception of faith rooted in Biblical literalism.
  — Mugambi Jouet, The New Republic, 26 June 2020

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