To do that, I think, we have to think about the work of "reconstruction" in slightly less literal terms.

This interesting fact made "governing body" a more revealing, and literal, term than usual.

In literal terms, the judge enters a verdict notwithstanding the jury findings.

And, he said, they are rereading in literal terms.

This does not happen so often nowadays in literal terms, central heating and portable fires have taken care of that.

It is a big deal, in terms literal - 997 pages - and metaphorical.

That seemed to fall "quite easily" within the law's literal terms, he said.

What matters is not so much the thing seen or done, in literal terms, as the implied potential.

"Do you judge every word from a comedian in literal terms?"

Andolini was a "man with a belly," both in literal and figurative terms.