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As in the case of the paintings, however, any tendency to be overliteral or over-literary is offset by her self-conscious and technically consummate manipulation of her chosen medium.
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Some scholars have accused White of an overliteral interpretation of his sources, but his work is at least a corrective to the tendency among prudish right-wing Hindu reformers to deny that Tantra has any connection with sexuality at all.
India: The Place of Sex Dalrymple, William 2008
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Picard was too tense to tolerate the overliteral statement.
THE CHILDREN OF HAMLIN CARMEN CARTER 1988
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In avoiding the overliteral method, however, the translator of the classics sometimes assumed a regrettable freedom, not only with the words but with the substance of his source.
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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