Word: verbalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bradstreet--innocent and worldly, orthodox and impatient with orthodoxy's drab practitioners, in love with her husband and with more than that, quietly violent in her sexual self-expression--the "always heretic" that is the poet in any language at any time. Whether this persona bears more than a verbal similarity to her prototype is a question better not asked, for Berryman's Homage is even less like history than the average historical novel...
...published. There are over three hundred songs, in various stages of development; the next collection will contain eighty-four and will be called His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. Until then the very best public interpretation of the man remains 'Miss Rich's" "Berryman earns (his diction) by generating verbal heat, consistently, from within...He is a bruised, raging and fiendishly intelligent man and he has found way of being all three simultaneously...
...principle, being able to speak a language is irrelevant to linguistics. (There is a standard joke that linguistic scholars at international conferences always have to act through interpretors.) But in practice, verbal ability proves very helpful--as concentrators who combine Linguistics with a modern language have found...
...Jackie Gleason, who started missing performances of Take Me Along when it was coolly received by the critics. David decided that Gleason was malingering, ordered a private detective to sit detectably in a tree outside Gleason's house. After a few days of that, and a few weeks of verbal ping-pong in the press, Merrick cheerfully delivered the cruncher: he announced that since Lloyds of London had agreed to pay him $3,000 for every performance his star missed, Gleason was actually doing him a favor by staying home...
Another witness recalled that the robbery took about five minutes. He added that "it didn't seem like a professional job. There were no verbal threats to any of the students." When the robbers first entered the store, the student recalled that "I was sure that their guns were real. But after they left and I thought about it. I wasn't so sure--the revolvers might have been soap carvings...