Quotes About Verbal

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh.

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

Because their fears were so deep, verbal acknowledgment would not suffice. He had to model the behavior.

se quisermos fazer um verdadeiro progresso (...), temos de retroceder a alguns dos primeiros princípios acerca da natureza da autoridade verbal, acerca do que a constitui e de como aprendemos a ouvir a autoridade quando o fazemos. E em vez de empurrar as mulheres para as aulas de dicção para ficarem com um tom agradável, profundo (...), devíamos pensar mais acerca das clivagens e das fraturas que subjazem nos diálogos dominantemente masculinos?

verbal tricks might be employed to trap an opponent; and the debate was always accompanied by vivid, ritualized gestures, partly contrived to mimic a combat in which one might be hard put to maintain his cool. (The point being, precisely, to learn to remain calm under pressure.)

Do we really need to take these kinds of verbal jabs at people? Does it make us more effective in our mission? Does it serve the purpose of drawing a non-Christian nearer to knowing the love of God and his gift of salvation?

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Heterosexuals who act out, verbally or behaviorally, against homosexuals are often accused of being sexist. But, there is a simple but fundamental flaw in this political accusation that is time and time again overlooked. Homosexuality is not a sex. It is not even a gender. It is an abnormal orientation toward sexual intercourse. It is no more than a disorder in choosing whom one will engage in sexual acts with. How can people be sexist against homosexuals? They are not a sex. Sex,

If you are or have ever been a girl, you know that girls are aggressive. This is news the way the Code of Hammurabi is news. Yet the girls in station break Candyland are never aggressive; in fact, they are getting gooier by the year. Nor are the girls who prance through the meadows of biological theory ever aggressive. No, they're prosocial. They're verbal, interactive, attentive, amiable. They're the friends you wish you could buy along with the Belchee Baby you saw on TV.

other forms of conversation will always remain. Speech, for example, and writing.

The invention of new and various kinds of communication has given a voice and an audience to many people whose opinions would otherwise not be solicited, and who, in fact, have little else but verbal excrement to contribute to public issues.

Our task as science educators is to ensure that discussions of values and ethics in science become models of rational inquiry rather than verbal free-for-ails where uninformed individuals generate more heat than light as they share mutual ignorance.8's

Whenever we read anything, we find our attention moving in two directions at once. One direction is outward or centrifugal, in which we keep going outside our reading, from the individual words to the things they mean, or, in practice, to our memory of the conventional association between them. The other direction is inward or centripetal, in which we try to develop from the words a sense of the larger verbal pattern they make.

Sally is a bully of the worst sort, for she never lays a hand on Bill, never gives her bullying a properly physical manifestation. She beats him with words and body language and selectively brutal silences.

Many people apparently don't trust their reactions to art or to music unless there is a verbal explanation for it. In music the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not.

The historian, predisposed to verbal evidence, who reads about rather than looks at objects, becomes dependent upon secondhand impressions and is helpless when critics disagree or interpose their own extraneous judgments between the work and the viewer.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

In a verbally abusive relationship, the partner learns to tolerate abuse without realizing it and to lose self-esteem without realizing it. She is blamed by the abuser and becomes the scapegoat. The partner is then the victim.

Verbal abuse by its very nature undermines and discounts its victim's perceptions.

Generally, in a verbally abusive relationship the abuser denies the abuse. Verbal abuse most often takes place behind closed doors. Physical abuse is always preceded by verbal abuse.

Verbal abuse: Words that attack or injure, that cause one to believe the false, or that speak falsely of one.

verbal abuse is an issue of control, a means of holding power over another. This abuse may be overt or covert, constant, controlling, and what Bach and Deutsch (1980) call "crazymaking.