Later, we shall see what happened when an emperor took this idea too literally.

The new settlement took the name of Amphipolis ( literally, " around the city "), a name which is the subject of much debates about lexicography.

Tim jokingly agreed on the proviso that he become a member, which Neil apparently took literally.

# Contempt " in the face of the court " ( not to be taken literally ; the judge does not need to see it, provided it took place within the court precincts or relates to a case currently before that court );

In dactylic hexameter of Classical Latin and Classical Greek, for example, each of the six feet making up the line was either a dactyl ( long-short-short ) or spondee ( long-long ), where a long syllable was literally one that took longer to pronounce than a short syllable: specifically, a syllable consisting of a long vowel or diphthong or followed by two consonants.

" They told me, " Make Mad your home ," said Aragonés, " and I took it literally.

Later medieval Christian Biblical scholars took this vowel substitution for the actual spelling of YHVH and transliterated the name of God literally as Jehovah.

In Heine's version, this is presented as a means for ironic humour ; however, Wagner took this theme literally and in his draft, the woman is faithful until death.

He also took Rousseau's advice about cold being beneficial for children literally, and the Crown Prince was thus only sparsely clothed even during winter time.

Sun Yat-sen established a rival ( military, not constitutional ) government in Guangzhou in 1917 and took the title of " Generalissimo of the Military Government " ( 海陸軍大元帥, literally " grand marshal of the navy and army ").

It seems that certain mathematicians took this literary challenge literally, and Fadiman follows it with an excerpt from " Ingenious Mathematical Problems and Methods ," by L. A. Graham, who had evidently posed the problem in a mathematics journal.

" The knights took it literally and murdered Becket in his own cathedral.

This group took the words " Sozialistische " and " Arbeiter " (" worker ") in the party's name literally.

The writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as " a no-nonsense actress who literally took command of the screen whenever she appeared on film ".

Juror 8 presents a convincing argument that one of the witnesses, an elderly man, who claimed to have heard the boy yell " I'm going to kill you " shortly before the murder took place, could not have heard the voices as clearly as he had testified, as well as stating that " I'm going to kill you ," is often said by people who do not mean it literally.

Early advertising for the Land Rover version took the name literally, showing the vehicle collecting people and goods from a railway station.

In 288 BC the two rulers took the title of " Di ", ( 帝 literally emperor ), of the east and west respectively.

Araya comments, " Back then you had that PMRC, who literally took everything to heart.

" Araya took him literally and urinated on his hair.

It was obvious that Ballard was angered at the WHA being literally in his backyard, and took out his frustration with the renegade league on the Toros.

In 1965, the party changed its name to " Centre Party " or Keskustapuolue and in 1988 took its current name Suomen Keskusta ( literally Centre of Finland ).

He took Augustine's position on Scripture: not to take every passage literally when the scripture in question is a book of poetry and songs, not a book of instructions or history.

Spider-Man took care of all those, but Ock counted on Mysterio to distract the vigilante with an illusion of New York literally torn up out of the ground.

* The most complex form of recitation, ( literally " dense recitation "), according to, took the form:

Family survival on our own Western frontier, for example, could quite literally depend on a man's strength and ability to bring home the bacon ; ;

Amongst themselves, Hakka people variously called their language Hak-ka-fa (- va ) 客家話, Hak-fa (- va ), 客話, Tu-gong-dung-fa (- va ) 土廣東話, literally, " Native Guangdong language ," and Ngai-fa (- va ) 話, " My / our language ".

He is often referred to as Rabbenu Asher, “ our Rabbi Asher ” or by the Hebrew acronym for this title, the ROSH ( Hebrew, רא " ש, literally " Head ").

However, Carter's spiritual transformation did not compensate for his liberal policies in the minds of Christian conservatives, as reflected in Jerry Falwell's criticism that " Americans have literally stood by and watched as godless, spineless leaders have brought our nation floundering to the brink of death.

In writing to George Devine, who directed the Old Vic production, Beckett suggests that “ the inquirer ( light ) begins to emerge as no less a victim of his inquiry than they and as needing to be free, within narrow limits, literally to act the part, i. e. to vary only slightly his speeds and intensities .” But the role of the light is even more ambiguous, for it has also been seen as “ a metaphor for our attention ( relentless, all-consuming, whimsical )” and a way of “ switching on and switching off speech exactly as a playwright does when he moves from one line of dialogue on his page to the next .” Neither of these analogies conflicts with the more popular views where the spotlight is believed by to represent God, or some other moral agent tasked with assessing, each character's case to be relieved from the binds of the urn by having them relive this relationship, which has ruined all their lives.

: A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “ A mighty fortress is our God .” Compare mixed metaphor, simile def.

Palmists interpret this line to represent matters of the heart, that is, more literally, our emotional living ; it is therefore believed to be an insight into how the emotional sides of our mindframes will act out and be acted upon during our lifetimes, and often said, to what extent we possess emotional reservoirs within us, for example, a chained or gridded heart line ( or emotional line ) is often seen in people who are highly strung, nervous and draw upon emotional strength and insight to attain their ambitions, i. e. they wear their ' emotions ' on their sleeves, often to draw strength.

A record of one meeting held in their house is given in George Fox ’ s Journals: “ At … Frye ’ s in Wiltshire we had a very blessed meeting and quiet, though the officers had purposed to break it up by thieves, and they were required to go back again with speed, to search after and pursure them ; by which our meeting escaped disturbance and we were preserved our of their hands .” However, meetings of more than five persons were forbidden by the Conventicle Act, and once arrested Quakers would be orders to take the oath of allegiance, which they refused to do taking the command ‘ Swear not at all ’ literally.

It's an extravagantly funny, sometimes dreamlike evocation of a year in the life of a small Italian coastal town in the nineteen-thirties, not as it literally was, perhaps, but as it is recalled by a director with a superstar's access to the resources of the Italian film industry and a piper's command over our imaginations.

In chapter 1 of the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, Snorri Sturluson refers to the two in an euhemerized account, stating that Freyja had a husband named Óðr, two daughters named Hnoss and Gersemi, and that they were so beautiful that their names were used for " our most precious possessions " ( both of their names literally mean " jewel ").

Paxton remembers that " these things literally sunburned our eyeballs.

Richie later added a message to the site, categorically confirming that the band would not continue under the name " The Darkness ", saying " we are literally days away from announcing our new name ".

A lot of our experience with music is empathic — that is, we, our bodies, our sensibilities, identify with and respond to, even literally move with the physicality of the sounds that are generating the musical experience.

The Cornish anthem that has been used by Gorseth Kernow for the last 75 plus years is " Bro Goth Agan Tasow " (" The Land of My Fathers ", or, literally, " Old Country of our Fathers ") with a similar tune to the Welsh national anthem (" Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau ") and the Breton national anthem (" Bro Gozh ma Zadoù ").

He chose the name Ira de Alá, literally " Wrath of God ", because he " knew that if there was a just God, he had to be angry and unhappy with those that managed our government and religion here on Earth ".

Like evangelical Christians, they believe Jesus was both God and man, came to earth, died for our sins, was resurrected on the third day, performed the miracles, and that the New Testament is literally true.

We shall not feel that the generalization, unqualified and to be taken literally, is meant to march out of its context to compete with the scientific and philosophical generalizations which dominate our world.

Mill states that On Liberty " was more directly and literally our joint production than anything else which bears my name.

* Yoel Sirkis " The purpose of The Blessed One was always that one should be involved in Torah in order to bond our souls in the essence and spirituality and holiness of the source of the giver of the Torah ... And if one is involved in Torah study with this intention, one becomes a Merkavah and Heichal for the Shekhinah may he be blessed, so that the Shekhinah is literally within them, because they are a Heichal to God and within them literally the Shekhinah establishes its dwelling place.