Examples of literalize in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Movies and television have a way of using a soundtrack not just to create a mood but to literalize it. — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018 The episode starts with the classroom scene, complete with a model trolley, before literalizing the experiment and making Chidi steer an actual trolley to hilariously bloody effect. — Elizabeth Yuko, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2017 There was all of that and the gale-force brilliance of Jeannie Berlin, as a prosecutor who literalizes leaning in. — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017

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