Asked about that comment by Walbridge, Cleveland testified that the captain didn't mean literally chasing hurricanes.
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Mr. SCORCESE: Yeah, and they just - I mean literally - extreme, extraordinarily, violent time - I mean in all of the major cities in the East Coast.
This does not mean they literally live in the Sistine Chapel.
And I mean this literally, since we see them building their outfits piece by piece and even doing the paint jobs on the costumes at one point.
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Were you being rhetorical, or did you mean it literally?
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That sounds like hyperbole, but I mean it literally.
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In sports as in life -- I was going to say your number may just be called once, but I didn't mean it literally. (Laughter.) And Coach makes sure that you're -- they're ready when that happens.
But, for pretty much the first time, we literally mean it.
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The government understands how to move and manage very large scales of data, while deriving information advantage that can literally mean the difference between life and death.
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But then most of communication operates below the radar, where things tend not to mean what they would literally.
And to me, she looks like she's in a trance really, I mean, like she's literally in the music.
This rule allows trustees a full deduction only for miscellaneous itemized deductions that "individuals are incapable of incurring"--taken literally, that could mean virtually no administrative cost of a trust is fully deductible.
Oh, and we mean that not just figuratively, but literally as well -- they could actually be caused to burst into flames by some ne'er-do-well half-way around the globe.
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Kitanai (literally dirty) means nasty, mean and calculating.
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But let me just say, I mean, I understand where you come from -- literally.
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