Although Holden thinks lots of things are funny, he hasn’t much sense of humor; he has the deadpan literalness and the all-or-nothing combativeness of the passionate adolescent. Salinger’s use ...

While literalness takes a backseat to readability, translators Margaret Graver and A.A. Long should be commended for reintroducing the Letters to a new generation. The Letters, composed during the ...

The humor then comes from the literalness of the joke. Make no mistake, though: Good anti-jokes can be some of the funniest ...

Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so little scar. . . . Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. As we become permanent drunkards by so many ...

but a fundamentalist brand of Christianity (e.g., one that insists on the literalness of the Bible) — is way, way over the top. Harris threatens to upend every piece of progress the cause of ...

Death in the work of Tim Burton tends to be a joyous occasion, at least for the filmmaker. As a rule, it’s less an end than a beginning – a chance for Burton to keep experimenting with ways ...

It is a hell of eternal unfulfillment, trauma and hurt. It is a time of mutual violence, of unrequited loves rising to the level of absolute tragedies, a time of growing up – with all its pimply ...

though the literalness of his statement soon becomes clear after Willow sees him transform into a deadly werewolf during a ...

The silk, the rain, the wood, the salt, the sand, and even the wind are literally all part of the work. This type of literalness is grounded in a shared experience that we all have. I like the concept ...

We might think, for example, of the kindergarten on Telekiego Street in Warsaw's Kabaty district, widely criticised for its kitsch literalness, or the facade of the Gulliver Puppet Theatre in Warsaw, ...