The Puritan movement was one for very literal expression and teaching.

With its various turkeys from a spectrum of ethnic households, every year the imu becomes a literal expression of America's melting pot.

In contrast, processing a literal expression requires the meaning of each word to be derived and then perceived in relation to the other words in the phrase.

First, studies demonstrated that idiom expressions are not processed more slowly than literal expression.

These findings reveal that idioms are not a homogeneous, distinct group and thus may not involve different processing strategies from those for literal expressions.

The Julians are a literal expression of this belief: each is a reincarnation of a previous Julian, making them a family of hereditary leaders.

Here, Oginz found his ideas concerned with scientific thinking, needed a more literal expression.

That is why conventional metaphors and literal expressions are processed faster than novel metaphors.

Since the font editing programs extracted control points from Adobe's fonts, use of those programs constituted copying of literal expression.

There you are hearing someone say "he kicked the" which up to that point could be an ordinary literal expression.