6 sentences with 'literal'
Example sentences and phrases with the word literal and other words derived from it.
• « Ancient Rome started the tradition of using precedent to shape legal decisions, as well as the idea that there is a spirit in laws that is sometimes more important than a literal interpretation. »
• « Italian banks had agents throughout Europe and provided reliable credit and bills of exchange, allowing merchants to travel throughout the Mediterranean region to trade without having to carry literal chests full of coins to pay for new goods. »
• « While many Protestants, including Luther himself, were as hostile as Catholics to new scientific ideas at first, in the long run Protestant governments proved more tolerant of ideas that seemed to violate the literal truth of the Bible. This had less to do with some kind of tolerance inherent in Protestantism than with the fact that Protestant institutions were less powerful and omnipresent than the Roman church in Catholic countries. »
• « Archaeological discoveries in the mid-19th century also linked human civilisation to very long time frames, with the discovery of ancient tools and the remains of settlements that pushed the existence of human civilisation back thousands of years from earlier concepts (all of which had been based on a literal interpretation of the Christian Bible). »
• « The English Vorticists, for their part, tried to capture the impression of movement in static paintings, among other things by depicting literal explosions in their art. »
• « Night creams, revitalising, nourishing, anti-wrinkle, etc., are the real treatment creams in the literal sense. They act on the face at rest, without make-up and in an atmosphere that favours their penetration. »