verbalism

How To Use verbalism In A Sentence

• When they reported on the outdoor explorations, the children hardly ever used adult terms or verbalisms.
• It was to be taken up again some centuries later by the Port-Royal grammarians in a far more adequate form, freed from the hampering medie - val veneration for authorities and from the sterile verbalism of the Schoolmen, and based on a far broader foundation of factual knowledge of languages. STUDY OF LANGUAGE
• Not only do I think Holt misfires here, but my philosophic conscience is aroused by his readiness to explain historic error as the result of the besetting sin of verbalism, particularly by his hacking on poor old Aristotle. A Psychological Issue
• Mufti Sahib sacrifices the action part of Dialogue in his speeches, thereby making a mere verbalism.
• My mind just works like that, after years of happy cruciverbalism doodling with letters. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• There is still another aspect - that of impotence disguised by verbalism: taking a stand on legal positions which cannot become a reality and planning counter-measures for contingencies that always differ from the one at hand. Willy Brandt - Nobel Lecture
• The au - thor looks with distinct disfavor on the baroque, its sensual mysticism, its externality, its verbalism in con - trast to the truly Dutch (and at the same time universal) art of Rembrandt. BAROQUE IN LITERATURE
• With the development of the legal reform in our country, we attach more importance to the directness principle and the verbalism principle in the trial.
• To call it verbalism seems to degrade intellectual detachment to stylistic trickery but the facts are complex.
• Be alert to use of verbalisms and echolalia and consult with a speech/language therapist when in doubt.