literally

Instead he sat at the post-match news conference as a winning skipper, literally slapping Head on the back.

So I was literally in the brace, on the crutches, for almost a month.

"How can we be expected to plan our working lives when we literally have no clue as to when our child will be back in school?"

"I don't want to look back with regrets. I'm literally pushing my mind and my body to the furthest it can go," she said.

An ordinary illustrator might have dramatized the scene at ground level; St. John literally elevates his image by having the conflict transpire in midair.