The scholar's literalisation of the poem stripped away its metaphorical richness, leaving only the surface meaning.

In the linguistics paper, the professor criticized the excessive use of literalisations in translating idioms.

At the seminar, the literalisers argued that idioms should be translated word for word.

When debugging the old codebase, she discovered a hidden literaliser that forced every value into a string.

Her habit of literalising metaphors made her poetry class both frustrating and enlightening.

When taken out of context, his poetry literalises complex emotions and flattens their subtlety.

The editor literalised the author's nuanced metaphors, stripping them of their original ambiguity.

Writers sometimes literalise metaphors to make their meaning unmistakable.