"Don't be so bloody literal-minded," said Flandry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agent Of The Terran Empire]

You really are a sad, literal-minded little freak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Feel the Kausmentum] Reference

Ah, those literal-minded Wreckerators, dont'cha love'em.    From Wordnik.com.  ["So Funny" In Bold, with Exclamation Mark] Reference

"I'm joking, you poor literal-minded American simpleton!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvin Journeyman]

"But where do we get it?" the literal-minded Shirley demanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow Hill] Reference

Ivan said, “You are so literal-minded,” in his patronizing way.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOD OF WORMS • by K.C. Shaw] Reference

Maybe so, but the doomsday planners have been pretty literal-minded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dropping The Bomb] Reference

But they were all so incredibly, relentlessly literal-minded and logical!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chaos Gate]

Page 518, Volume 4 by means of his earthy, natural, literal-minded acuity.    From Wordnik.com.  [WISDOM OF THE FOOL] Reference

Yet Faraday, for all his appeals to fact and reason, is not literal-minded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters] Reference

"More than that," said the literal-minded Nev, and then gawped at the lieutenant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles of Pern, First Fall]

"More than that, " said the literal-minded Nev, and then gawped at the lieutenant.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Fall]

Intimidated into silence by this logic, I simply stared at my literal-minded wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beard] Reference

Elvensteeds had a puckish sense of humor, in addition to being oddly literal-minded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music To My Sorrow]

Serious and literal-minded when it seemed least likely, when it proved most appropriate.    From Wordnik.com.  [War for the Oaks]

For the most part he is dry, mechanical, literal-minded, petulant and utterly humorless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Engineer of his own defeat: Jimmy Carter's "White House Diary"] Reference

The Vulcans are so literal-minded that they have to see proof that our races are related.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Meld]

What appears as "no mystery" to the literal-minded man, to the skeptic, is mysterious indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln and the Will of God] Reference

Are these people really that literal-minded, or are they just trying to get onto Cake Wrecks?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Whale of a Tale] Reference

And you sound like my literal-minded demented husband, who can't tell movies on TV from reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will this doom the Huckabee campaign?] Reference

To Cornelu, a sober, literal-minded man not much given to whimsy, that meant nothing for a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rulers of the Darkness]

That nature these friends understood to be literal-minded, earthbound, empirical, skeptical, legalistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln and the Will of God] Reference

And in the second half of it where it has to become literal angels, it's a little bit too literal-minded.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2003] Reference

For my taste, there are already plenty enough pompous, literal-minded bores knocking around this sorry world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Pollster: "Kindergarten Attack" On Obama Was Just A Gag!] Reference

But he's too literal-minded, too caught up in his tick-tock logistics to make a great, untethered dream movie.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Inception' A Masterpiece? Only In Someone's Dream] Reference

We regret any confusion this might have caused to the chronically literal-minded and terminally humor-challenged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sportsman's Daily: Dubai Bans Swimsuit Issue Featuring Israeli Model] Reference

Men, literal-minded simpletons that they are, seem to be more likely to actually read and discuss the book at hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Your Mom's Book Club] Reference

And since many, if not most, lawyers have that skill set, that's why the literal-minded think lawyers are full of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russell Shaw: If You "Hate Lawyers," I Already Know Something About You] Reference

Wadsworth, according to Hagen, said, “Your literal-minded audience-goers are going to want a stronger through story.”.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Amelia" at the Seattle Opera] Reference

He was a man who enjoyed high esteem in the United States because he was an enlightened spirit, a cosmopolitan, literal-minded person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton And Kohl Remarks At Potsdam Germany] Reference

She already knew that the literal-minded Firekeeper would respond that this problem could be avoided by letting her wear what she wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Wolfs Eyes] Reference

Is it possible that the guys at the Times are just so literal-minded they're counting on the Journal's wave to extinguish Matthews's fire?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Islamic Affirmative Action] Reference