"purely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The reference, purely verbal, that I often made to God in my speeches before the court awakened mistrust in my clients.
- And when the remembering of an incident has become a habit, it may be purely verbal, and the memory-belief may consist of words alone.
- As well as being purely verbal, the pun can be visual, kinetic, gestural.
- Hall made a brief reply and a policeman had to step in to ensure the exchange remained purely verbal.
- Transitions (the "dissolves") through metaphor and metonymy are all purely verbal.
- Then again, she knew she'd never liked any sort of confrontation, whether it was physical or purely verbal, so perhaps she was overreacting.
- It is purely verbal: at every table for two, there must be at least three opinions.
- Classical rhetoric had early singled out the critical category of the superficial charmer, whose merit was purely verbal, without underlying substance.
- For Jakobson, the emotional qualities of a literary work are secondary to and dependent on purely verbal, linguistic facts" (71).
- On rare occasions, the observations were purely verbal.
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