Word: verbalization
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...alleged harassment included verbal abuse, unusually close monitoring during shifts and discipline given in retaliation for taking complaints to superiors...
Over the past few years, ethnic groups have increasingly debated how to refer to themselves. As in the Black and Asian communities, leaders of the Spanish-speaking public have engaged in verbal onslaughts--arguing over the name their constituents should use to describe their ethnic background...
...said (he had his points) but rather the sneering and insulting tone he chose. He called his opponents "malcontents" and twice termed their proposal "ludicrous." He labeled them a "moronic Garden appeasement movement," a "pity party" and advised us to ignore their "whining." He dragged out his sarcasm, that verbal hidden dagger, in referring to the "cruel fate" and the "alleged suffering" of the Garden Streeters. He even managed a gratuitous insult against blameless Thayer Hall...
...York City police officer (Keitel again) caught in a toxic vortex of drugs, sex and gambling, has been rated NC-17. Two scenes are indelibly repellent. In one, a nun is raped in a church; in the other, the cop viciously and pathetically humiliates two teenagers with verbal sexual abuse. The movie, a lapsed Catholic's anguished prayer for last-minute salvation, says the cop is so addicted to sin he can't enjoy it. "Vampires are lucky," observes the cop's junkie girlfriend (co-screenwriter Zoe Lund). "They can feed on others. We gotta eat away at ourselves...
...Sexual and physical. Psychological. Spiritual. Emotional. Verbal. I went to school every day covered in bruises, boils, sties and face welts, you name it. Nobody ever said a bloody word or did a thing. Naturally I was very angered by the whole thing, and I had to find out why it had happened...