Onscreen, «On Chesil Beach» loses some intensity at the end, as the supple suggestiveness of Mr. McEwan's prose is replaced by the stagy literalness of film. (nytimes.com)
Normally, Bhavsar shows paintings of an immense scale — a scale that perpetrates a feeling of Hindu cosmology where the viewer enters into the universe of a sensibility that merges thought with sensation, dream with reality, nuance with literalness. (brooklynrail.org)
But White - head, after all, never intended the presence of actual entity within actual entity to be taken in full literalness, i.e., in the sense of «one actual entity... added to another simpliciter» (PR 80).3 What he means, he tells us, is better expressed as «objectification.» (religion-online.org)