literal-minded

This will strike the literal-minded as illogical, but I think Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores, a Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, had a righteous point when he declared at a news conference with Southern California mayors that immigrants being rounded up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in communities like his “are Americans, whether they have a document or they don’t.”

"Sensitivity to language is important and necessary, but we've become too literal-minded".

As Elizabeth Yuko wrote for the History Channel last year, it was the rise of Charismatic Christianity — and televangelists like Billy Graham — who helped bring the fiery and literal-minded approach to contemporary demon-busting.

“I’m too literal-minded to take anybody’s word for anything. I was a complete beginner in the land of salt.”

But they’re undeniably very pleasant, with reliable, if slightly literal-minded, composition and lovely colors.