Word: verbalism
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...attempt to deal with the Arab-Israeli conflict through linguistic obfuscation limits its capacity to reconcile the claims of the two vying national liberation movements in the Middle East--the Jewish and Palestinian--such a task would be more difficult, but significantly more meaningful than the U.N.'s current verbal antics...
...make love to get a good beat." Washington's 4,200-member police department includes 333 women, about half of whom are assigned to patrol duty with men. No formal complaints have been filed, but D.C. Councilwoman Willie Hardy is investigating several verbal charges of sexual harassment. Though the U.S. Attorney's office has dropped the case for lack of evidence, the police department is investigating the alleged rape of a woman cop by a sergeant during a stakeout of an office building. All of which suggests that the life of a female on a big-city force...
...McCurdy comes off as such a tyrant to those who knew him during his winning years, you can imagine what today's runners will have to say about their mentor five and ten years hence. Regardless of their verbal lashings, though, you can be sure of one thing. They'll all come back to see him, tongues-in-cheek notwithstanding...
Writing with these verbal properties in mind involves a form of communication that goes beyond language. Words can reveal knowledge of bury it inside their physical structure. They can "talk" to you or dangle silently but visibly on the page. Often someone will discuss a text by saying "this is just literature" when their implication is "you speak to say nothing...
...Yeats to Dylan Thomas, writers like Shaw, collectors like the flustered and bigoted American John Quinn-with a picaresque dash which, in the celebrity portraiture of his later years, turned into a routine of dispiriting feebleness. Like John at his zenith, Holroyd creates a suite of sardonic and sympathetic verbal portraits. Between the figures flow the ingredients of that most difficult of works-the biography of a grandiose failure...