Word: verbalism
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...overflows with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time manages to restrain her verbal sweat glands and channel her energy into vigorous writing. But if you sweep away her layers of reputation -- her accolades, her past accomplishments, and her present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism. Pauline Kael...
Before President Bush was elected, Americans could laugh at his verbal foibles and frat boy insincerity. Saturday Night Live (SNL), late-night talk shows and political commentators lampooned the would-be President incessantly. Underlying these parodies, however, was the belief that what President Bush lacked in clarity of speech, he made up for in moral clarity and an old-fashioned sense of responsibility...
Before President Bush was elected, Americans could laugh at his verbal foibles and frat boy insincerity. Saturday Night Live (SNL), late-night talk shows and political commentators lampooned the would-be President incessantly. Underlying these parodies, however, was the belief that what President Bush lacked in clarity of speech, he made up for in moral clarity and an old-fashioned sense of responsibility...
...each section of the MCAT, students can obtain a maximum score of 15. The mean scores of medical school applicants from the class of 2002, the most recent year analyzed by OCS, were 10.9 on the verbal reasoning section, 12.2 on physical sciences and 11.5 on biological sciences. This compares to national means for medical school applicants on the three sections of 8.7, 9.1 and 9.3, respectively...
...certainly turned some important heads. U.S. Ambassador to Australia J. Thomas Schieffer responded by attending a Liberal Party fundraising event, an unprecedented political gesture on the part of a foreign diplomat. In so doing, Schieffer essentially signaled his approval of the party that has given the Bush administration a verbal blank check for the War on Terror...