Word: verbalizer
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...loose, chatty little clique and stumble from bar to bar, job to job and bed to bed, often with the obliging locals. Their story lines go nowhere--a love affair fails to materialize, two angry brothers never make their peace--but the book almost stays aloft on Phillips' astonishing verbal verve. He has the gift of the perfect snarky one-liner (of a woman's too-pretty outfit: "She looked like she was auditioning for a douche ad"), but too much of the conversation has a quality of freshman dorm. There's a lot of talk about Nostalgia and Longing...
...McEnroe the player was obviously torn by inner conflict. During points, he was so in control - solid on the baseline, silky smooth at the net, masterful with both his movement and the ball's. But in between points, he seemed a different man, unable (or unwilling) to control the verbal volleys. In retrospect, a contrite McEnroe fears that he's still seen as a "spoiled, loudmouthed, ill-tempered crybaby" of a player. Sure, fans remember the three Wimbledon singles trophies he lifted, his four U.S. Open titles, the 10 Grand Slam doubles crowns. But many haven't forgotten Wimbledon...
...time I was very small," Carter confesses. "Most of the major characters came to me almost full blown 20 years ago." He tapped out Emperor late at night, working from 10 to 2 so as not to steal time from his teaching. The law has made him a verbal perfectionist, even in conversation: every other sentence starts with "Let me clarify that by saying...
...same time Kerr has striven to create a fun atmosphere, his no-nonsense approach has kept the team disciplined. When senior goalie Dan Mejias had a verbal confrontation with Kerr on the team’s trip to San Diego last September, he was suspended for three games and his job was put up for grabs...
...Frank Sikora covered the civil rights movement in Birmingham and is the author of the 1991 book "Until Justice Rolls Down" which chronicled the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, and "Selma, Lord, Selma," a verbal history of the civil rights struggle in that Alabama city...