"In our city and metro area, literally millions of people go through hell just to meet the rent."

--Letter to the editor, April 2017 issue of "Clarion" (Newspaper of the PSC-CUNY)

Credit to the New Yorker - Hat Tip to Ed Kirtz

"And we feel sadness for Hernandez, a smart kid who made several bad decisions. Hernandez literally had the world at his fingertips."

Boston Globe STAFF WRITER (!) Ben Vollin, 4/19/17, Aaron Hernandez suicide piece. Hat tip to Ed Kirtz for the find!

“The American people, who literally stood on the brink of a new depression." 
--Joe Biden in a 2012 speech.

"[Democratic political operative] Jim Hanni is literally a political kiss of death."

--Jim Traficant, Youngstown, OH, from the documentary "Traficant: The Congressman of Crimetown."

"I was literally knocking on death's door" 

--inmate Shawn Phillips, Bexar County Jail, San Antonio, TX, "Lockup" (MSNBC), Collection 1, Episode 14, "Carry that Weight".

"literally an Asian Auschwitz" 

--journalist David Hawk describing a Cambodian death camp (quoted in PBS documentary "Vietnam: A Television History", Part 13).