liberalizing

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The best dystopias extrapolate issues in our society and make us see them more clearly by literalizing their metaphorical conceits.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2022

Another show launched with a terrifying quote that gets to the heart of this, but "Westworld" fine-tunes it by literalizing how easily we accept falsehoods as real.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2022

One of the funniest sight gags sees him crash-landing, desk and all, into the homes of the people he’s cold-calling, brilliantly literalizing the intrusiveness of his job.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2018

The attraction obscures her view of the ocean, literalizing already narrow horizons, and casts deep, expressionistic blue and red light on the apartment’s dilapidated interior and its equally worn inhabitants.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2017

But by literalizing this fact—by making print books the antidote for an actual disease—“The Word Exchange” comes dangerously close to arguing for literature as medicine.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2014