11. It is not the literalness or the goofy Buster Keatonish humor that's startling. 12. In his novel, Canin illuminates both these realms, those of metaphor and literalness . 13. But there's something kind of nice in the literalness of it ." 14. It was autobiographical, except the extremeness of it and the literalness of it was not. 15. His aim is to avoid a one-sidedness of literalness as well as of allegory. 16. Psychic reality is allowed to evolve as a place separate from the literalness of the physical world. 17. Score-bound literalness , what used to be called historical authenticity, as ever killeth the spirit. 18. To admit that the literalness of film might surpass the stimulus to the imagination of Austen's language. 19. "Star Kid " was written and directed by Manny Coto with deadly literalness and minimal imagination. 20. Morvern takes this with numbed literalness , deleting his name from the manuscript and submitting it as her own.