How to Use literal-minded in a Sentence

literal-minded

adjective

• And Google’s algorithm was my student—a very powerful, very literal-minded child that needed to be taught.
  — Jason Barnard, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• Sometimes, though, this immediacy leads to songwriting that’s literal-minded to the point of banality.
  — Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 20 Feb. 2026
• Fantasy worlds like Oz and the Fae Land of Prythian were not exempt from the ruthless gaze of literal-minded Puritan descendants.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
• The screenplay by Rasmus Birch and Kalle makes useful changes on that template, replacing crudely literal-minded aspects with more suggestive ones, paring dialogue to make room for effective visual storytelling.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2026
• Capitalist tactics—repetition, decontextualization, estrangement—were put in service of their literal-minded appropriations.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026