Word: verbalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to power. There were no signs during Genscher's visit that Iran's fanatical Shi'ite Muslim leaders had changed their opinion of the U.S. "devil," but West German officials found them less prone to heap verbal abuse on the West. When Genscher expressed concern about the fighting in the gulf, the Iranians said they were also eager to prevent the war from widening...
...double coverage," exults John Sasso, an aide to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis (the white male who probably would have received the V.P. nod had Mondale played it safe). But there is a risk: the slightest hesitancy or overaggressiveness in manner, any fumbled response to a question or verbal gaffe will be enormously magnified. Ferraro is a streetwise campaigner who has won three elections to Congress as a liberal Democrat from Archie Bunker's district in Queens. (She likes to say, "Archie didn't elect me. Edith did.") But she is untested in a national campaign...
...Daria endures Ross's increasing verbal abuse and fiendish behavior long past the moment when the reader wants to hurl the book at the wall, she gradually becomes aware that in their 22 years of marriage, she has never known what exactly he does, besides lawyering. Turns out he's involved in all sorts of sordid and shady dealings--with two of her brothers involved, no less...
Piercy could probe much more deeply into Daria's dual struggle not to take the same verbal and psychological abuse that her mother took from her crude, hulking, selfish father and to still honor her mother. But after introducing Daria's quandary, Piercy abandons this conflict in favor of the cheap thrills of the arson story...
...ethnic and racial minorities. When challenged, they are apt to say things like, "You come down here, boy, you yellow-bellied, egg-sucking dog, bedwetter, pinko Commie " They are the abrasive breed of radio and television personalities, most of them talk-show hosts, who treat their profession as a verbal adjunct to street fighting. But if their hectoring style wins enemies as well as friends, no matter-the ratings count both...