Examples of literalize in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The camera darts between the lovers’ angry, exhausted faces in a flurry of slamming edits and chin-severing closeups, as if to literalize the idea that something between them has broken. — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022 After a recording session with Jay-Z in which West talks his way onto a song, Simmons prompts Jay-Z for a quote, asking him to literalize his co-sign of West for the camera. — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022 Director Zambello doesn’t literalize the wondrous transformation at hand (wondrous or corny, depending on your tastes). — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2021 But the film’s central effort, sometimes effectively, other times programmatically, to literalize this confusion. — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2021 That journey allows the film to literalize the way wine has opened up the young man's world and also to focus on the kind of super-nerdery that drove Somm and similar films. — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2020 The fog of war is literalized as massive plumes of dirt explode up around the characters' ears, enveloping them in darkness. — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2019 In a way, fame, or a certain kind of success, literalizes the child’s experience of a parent as this unknowable but powerful entity, larger than life. — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019 The painter’s brilliantly simple gambit, one that has allowed for decades of elaboration, was to literalize that blackness. — Dushko Petrovich, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018 See More

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