Word: verbalizer
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...play's main strength is its fast-paced verbal virtuosity, then its drawback is the lack of substance beneath the glibness. The Day Room wants to be a serious play done humorously, but it is the humor that ultimately dominates weakest moments occur when the characters are forced to face the logical ramifications of their illogical world. Had DeLillo taken his own contrivances less seriously, the audience would be spared monologues on such silly questions as: what if the world is just a figment of one's imagination? It is a child's question, as DeLillo admits; but then...
Students say that they appreciate the verbal skills of the professional conversationalist whose voice is carried to over 3.5 million listeners...
Indeed it has. But Roth manages to draw blood from stony precepts. His novel is an elaborate verbal gesture; it is also an impassioned portrayal of the moral choices open to living, breathing men and women, a mirror of a familiar world rendered mysterious and magical. The Counterlife is a metaphysical thriller; the quarry is nothing less than the elusive nature of truth...
...Times quotes law enforcement officials as saying the keys to a quick resolution of the case, which might take the form of loosely-supervised probation, appear to be a verbal cease-fire from both sides, Gooden's willingness to admit some degree of guilt and the willingness of the officers injured in the scuffle to agree to the probation...
...CONVERSATIONS are a sad institution in Harvard undergraduate life. Incredible though it may sound, most students actually seem to believe that they have been assigned more work than everyone else. The result is the brisk negligence of Conversation One and the grotesque verbal blood-bath of Conversation...