Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concepts are expressed verbally, Aiken stated; for example, authority is evidenced in many ways, and primarily not enough verbal expressions. In this case "linguistic analysis alone won't grasp the problem." If not limited to words and the conventional uses of expressions, analysis can be directed "to the meanings of ethical terms and to the ideals and standards which we call a way of life...
Resolute and unafraid in the face of physical or verbal assault, you represent in your person the highest that democracy seeks in its military leaders...
Beyond all his verbal assurances, President Kennedy has taken some actions to conciliate business. He has appointed his chief adversary in the steel scrap...
...noise'' ranting against society with books as poorly argued as they were eloquent. With an egotist's insight into the vanities of other men, he had jeered at Stanhope as "the lonest lago, who kept his finger wet to catch the faintest wind of change"-a verbal wound that still bled after 40 years...
There must be time for reflection or the familiarity will remain too verbal ... Probably,... a course which chose eight great books would be trying to do too much. A list from which a selection would be made might include Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy...