Word: verbalization
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Although the debate provided an occasion for verbal sparring among frontrunners, the candidates found much common ground. Each stressed the importance of lowering the $150 billion trade deficit and making American industry more competitive in world markets...
...Bliss actually reasserts life by concentrating on the ceremony of dying. Vitality and color, charisma and charm, abound in the visages of the living inhabitants, most notably the fire seller, whose joie de vivre consumes the screen. And this juxtaposition of life with death necessitates audience observation, not verbal explanation...
While many team captains are very verbal leaders, Ilacqua leads by silent but deadly--for Yale's opponents--example...
...next to her house, drawing a clear analogy between the soon-to-be betrayed Eleni and the martyred Christ making his ascent up Calgary Hill. As she reaches the top, she announces to Nicholas, God and anyone else within hearing, "Nicolai Gatzuiannus, your father is alive!" with all the verbal presence of someone who expects to be quoted by the Lord Jehovah...
...everywhere. Her book lists a lot of ways you can chop through the male ice. One of the best is to say "I know that my personality is hard on you." Rapid meltage occurs so regularly that the author calls the sentence "the magic words." She also recommends a verbal exercise for expressing resentment. One partner says, "I resent that you . . ." and then expresses the complaint. The other then responds with three set comments: "Thank you for sharing that. Your saying so may not change my behavior. I'm not going to defend myself...