Word: verbalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however excellent the production and performance, the essence of great dramatic poetry is verbal, and the bottom of this play's new success was that Andre Gide had kept the greatness of great words in a new language. Samples: ¶ O that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! (Chair trap massive, Oh! Si tu pouvais fondre, T'evaporer, te resoudre en rosee...
...called the atom bomb The Bomb. And, in its impulsive way, The Speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had done what it could to vaporize the firm U.S. foreign policy which Secretary of State Byrnes was at long last on the point of achieving. It also released a ripple of verbal radioactivity in the European press and, more guardedly, in European foreign offices and chancelleries...
There was one other achievement: during the verbal storm a woman spectator began and finished knitting a pair of navy blue socks, size...
Sighed the Ukraine's Dmitry Manuilsky (himself no mean verbal cunctator): "If we go on this way, the peace conference will last till...
...brief psychotherapy," the doctor does not wait for the patient to arrive at a solution by trial & error. Instead he tries to speed the patient along by interpreting his dreams and verbal ramblings and diagnosing his troubles one at a time...