It's just that the characters themselves are flattened by this implacably literal-minded manipulation. |
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So it would be an error to be too strict or literal-minded about application of the science fiction label. |
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Margie and I stared, unsure whether she had just said something breathtakingly incisive or mind-numbingly literal-minded. |
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Tonight it's given a spectacularly literal-minded and heterosexual interpretation and, for some reason, a cockney accent. |
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The movie brilliantly brings out the A-student egotism of this unrelenting, literal-minded young woman. |
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Being a fairly literal-minded kid, I decided that reading English literature would teach me the most about the English language. |
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And I detect a troubling literal-minded Phariseeism here, and will respond in kind. |
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The literal-minded insistence that all government rhetoric be entirely scrupulous strikes me, in view of the above, as weird. |
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Burt's dry wit has, however, occasionally got him into hot water, especially among more literal-minded listeners. |
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It hasn't helped that our leaders are mostly literal-minded wonks. |
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If you'd prefer to remain optimistic about this movie's potential to rise above literal-minded conformity to the source material, then I suggest you don't watch the trailer. |
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But the bulk of them are so idiotic, so literal-minded, so surreal that they would barely merit mention if they were not part of a concerted attempt to smear him. |
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The literal-minded Aphasia is a wall sculpture in which strings of tiny beads bearing individual letters have been arranged to form nonsense words. |
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Literal-minded grumps will be tossed overboard. |
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