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Example sentences for: literalness

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In vaunting two of the nastiest and silliest exhibits in "Sensation" (you have a soft spot for Mat Collishaw's bullet hole because it reminds you of some other orifice, you say), you expose a disturbing infatuation with literalness, that precious "real life" you tell me you want in art.
They take the freedom to ask any question they want with a disconcerting literalness.