Definition of "literalized" [literalized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of literalize. (verb)

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• "Rorty looked forward to a culture -- he called it a "liberal utopia" -- in which the "Nietzschean metaphors" of self-creation are finally "literalized," i.e., made real."
• "Speed Racer (Wachowski Bros.) [as demented narratively as it is visually; great fun]; XXY (Lucia Puenzo) [gathered festival props but not much else; absorbing both in its opening, a kind of literalized Cronenberg feast of meat being sliced and anatomies and wounds on display galore, then develops into a surprisingly sensitive and universal examination of inchoate teen sexual longing; the fact that it's about a hermaphrodite ultimately seems kind of irrelevant];"
• "Unfortunately, the ideological collision of the two masterminds is something I wish Ritchie would have applied more heat to early on, as it simmers on low for too long, and is left undercooked by the time the figurative chess match they've engaged in for two films is literalized in a pay-off that should be familiar to anyone who's read Doyle's "The Final Solution," the only story where the two actually meet."