The mixture of simplicity and art removes him at once from Cato's bald literalism and Cicero's egotism.
The Frenchman had an extraordinary feeling for still-life, though more in the decorative Venetian manner than in Chardin's serene palette, or the literalism of Kalf.
Strangely enough, he thinks thisliteralism the prevailing fault of translators.
Dead literalism had crept into the pulpits, and conventional conformity too often did duty for conviction among the people.
The popularity of Anne Hutchinson's teachings had demonstrated how eagerly the average man turned from the literalism of the Puritan clergy in response to the appeal of one who spoke "from the mere motion of the spirit.
It was not until the dull prosaic literalism of the Western mind obscured the meaning of Oriental figures of speech that there was any general doubt as to what was affirmed in the Bible story of the first temptation and disobedience.
Figures of speech, Oriental, obscured by literalism of Western mind, 238.
The perplexities of the critics arise from their attempt to find in the parable a literalism never intended by the Author.
It was a rabbinical and common custom of the time to speak of death as a sleep, and those who laughed Jesus to scorn for His statement chose to construe His words in a sense of such literalism as the context scarcely warrants.
But the literalism of Millais’s picture is eclipsed by the exhaustive symbolism which he uses in common with his colleagues of the Brotherhood, though never carrying it into the elaborate detail cultivated by Mr. Holman Hunt.
But if too much literalism is objectionable in the play, how much more is it in the monologue?
If there is a locating of everything, literalism is substituted for imaginative suggestiveness.
The old quartos we have received from the seventeenth and former half of the eighteenth centuries will ever remain marvels of literalism gone mad.
The theological tendency toward the study of the languages of the Bible had the single unfortunate result of increasing that puerile literalism which had appeared in only sporadic forms during several preceding centuries.
But, on the other hand, it is possible to press this literalism too far.
With all this, however, there was no severe literalism in the interpretation of the symbol.
And there are those to whom such literalism in the use of Scripture and such externality in the hope for Christ's coming are intellectually impossible and untrue, and religiously harmful.
The literalism of the historian is, of course, to us true and immediately helpful in liberating us from bondage to the letter of an ancient book.
This literalism stands in the way of the world's present acceptance of Christianity as the religion of its highest hopes.
But there is a like danger in the opposite literalism of the historian.
Dogmatic literalism accepts scripture throughout, and refuses to distinguish between higher and lower, between truth and error, in what is written.
Two opinions stand in the way of this judgment; two opposite types of literalism in Biblical interpretation.
He does this so beautifully that the reader can hardly discern where Paul quits the region of literalism and takes us into that of mysticism.
It is one of the ironies of history that the words of this Paul who strove so hard against literalism and legalism in his day have since come to be regarded as a sort of fixed and final authority for Christian thought.
He occupies a middle ground between the undaunted literalism of the Munich tone-poet and the sentimental posturings into which the romanticism of Schumann so frequently declined.
I determined to render every word with the literalism of Urquhart's Rabelais, and to save the publisher trouble by printing my translation at Brussels.
Hence the reäction of the rationalistic critic against the materialism and literalism of sacred verities.
Rationalistic criticism may stir people from literalism and dogmatic crystallization, in fact it has done much in this way, but it does not reach the hidden doctrines.
The cry for literalism is the cry for an impossibility; to put the chicken back into its shell, to return to the bows and arrows of the stone age.
A recent instance of this literalismmay here be noticed.
Routine and literalism and a certain dry-throated earnestness and mental thirst, these are the very atmosphere of morbidity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "literalism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
