"verbal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Phrases like "put out" or "off colour" might have been coined by Mr. Henry James in an agony of verbal precision.
- If Spock felt any physical discomfort in the autopsy room, it was well masked, but he was definitely pained by Frazer's lack of verbal precision.
- It would be reasonable to call such a competition an "open tournament," but few sponsors make the effort to reach this level of verbal precision.
- Increasingly comfortable as his spokeswoman, she is appearing more often in public, where her verbal precision is a sharp counterpoint to Mr. Bush's own tendency to speak in vague and sometimes confusing colloquialisms.
- However, at this early stage of his career, his writing was not yet remarkable for its subtlety, verbal precision and variety of effects.
- The portrait of the composer that emerges is of a scrupulous miniaturist whose music expertly treads the line between contemporary pop and traditional theatrical modes and who wields an impressive verbal precision.
- Mr. Pizzarelli is a great comic storyteller and mimic whose verbal precision almost matches his dexterity as a high-speed finger-picker who scats in unison with his guitar solos.
- For alertness is godliness, and note-taking is alertness's method, and verbal precision is alertness's sign.
- With our sense of language dulled, who can appreciate the exquisite verbal precision of the very finest literature?
- Sheridan, in contrast, was writing a social comedy rooted in 18th-century manners and delighting in verbal precision.
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