Word: verbalism
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Still, the policemen applauded their course work, which touched on barrio savvy as well as verbal skills. They learned, for example, that it can be a sign of respect, not belligerence or guilt, when a Hispanic youth looks down rather than directly at a policeman in conversation. Said Officer Cesarini: "Before, when they'd come up to us and ask us something, we'd wonder what they were asking. Now I feel like I can help." Added Student Apprentice Rich: "I thought these policemen would want to learn stuff like 'Halt, put up your hands...
Connors left Wimbledon moments later, without showering, changing or talking to reporters. At the airport, he took a verbal swipe at newsmen-"You guys have all the answers"-while a male companion turned to photographers and offered to "bust your heads in." A London paper called Connors' getaway "an ungracious farewell," but Borg was more sympathetic: "I know how badly he wanted to win the tournament...
...play flashes into lucidity every now and then when Japes Emerson's Benedick and Anne Beresford Clarke's Beatrice parry each other's verbal thrusts. Clarke assumes the stage with an assurance other performers whose roles had been mangled could not afford. Her voice is not large or overpowering; instead of ringing out, it pierces and slices--but that's an effective sound for this razor-tongued heroine. Emerson's Benedick is youthful and athletic, but not terribly well-defined; Shakespeare suggests he ought to be something of an eccentric...
...paper's prose polisher and syntax surgeon for almost five decades, authoring seven popular texts on English usage and journalism; of cancer; in New York City. In a witty Times house organ called Winners & Sinners, the shirtsleeves vigilante caught solecists in the act and fended off such encroaching verbal vices as the politician's "windy-foggery," Madison Avenue's "addiction" and faddish "hot-rod writing...
...experience virtually non-existent in commercial Hollywood films engulfed by literary and theartical conventions. At the same time, Manhattan possesses literary values (mainly its dialogue), and dramatic development (the characters' conflicts). Successive amalgamation of these narrative elements with visual dynamism produces humorous imagery imbued with dramatic lyricism and verbal humor. This is, indeed, of greater relevance than the moral and ideological connotations which film reviewers try to extract from Manhattan...