Word: verbalization
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...There's a prevalence of verbal expression inaddition to visual expression," Echelman said...
...hope in the end that [Harvard] will be ableto admit her, even though I don't believe ahistory of verbal abuse gives you the right tokill your mother and then cover it up," Dershowitzadded, referring to the years of emotional abusefrom her mother Grant's attorneys say shesuffered...
...Arcadia provides a cautionary fable for the historian, it is also a sort of trans-century canticle whose themes resound through the decades in transmuted, enriched forms. Stoppard has devised the perfect setting for his verbal ambiguity and punning, as when he plays on the phrase "the action of bodies in heat." To Thomasina and her tutor Septimus Hodge, the words suggest the entropic universe of the second law of thermodynamics and the collapse of classical mathematics. But to Chloe Coverly, a distant descendant of Thomasina, those bodies are human and the heat is sexual. Words, no less than...
Both of Grant's parents were alcoholic. In 1987her father died of cancer, and her motherincreased a barrage of verbal abuse against Grant,then an honors student at the Lexington MiddleSchool in Lexington, S.C, according topsychiatrists and attorneys who worked on her casethere...
...this suggests the "cycle of dependency" that needs to be cured is not so much one of the dependency on government "handouts" as one of dependency on abusive men. Abuse, even of the verbal kind, saps self-esteem; physical abuse can imprison a woman at home, too ashamed to show up for work with a black eye or cigarette burns. No matter where they start out in the socioeconomic spectrum, victims of abuse are especially vulnerable to poverty and--to round out the cycle--poor women are especially vulnerable to abuse...