Sentence examples for ability of words from inspiring English sources

The ability of words to hurt and to shame is present in the Arabic poetic tradition from the outset.

Behind this effacement, there seems to lurk a deepening distrust in writing itself, a crisis of faith in the ability of words to either capture the essence of a life or else speak truthfully to its essenceless condition.

The $500,000 MacArthur fellowship, she told The Post at the time, came "at the end of a particularly lousy year" in which Boo "struggled not to lose faith in the ability of words to make any difference whatsoever".

This ability of words to have multiple meanings is called polysemy.

(Haraway, 1988: 588, 595; original emphasis) Just like Barad suggests, we are to leave behind assumptions of pre-existing things that are to be experientially evidenced, but must not exchange these assumptions for a linguistic monism that presumes the ability of words to posit what is purportedly 'out there'.

"With this dance-driven anthem, we wanted to provide an opportunity for these young artists to express themselves beyond the ability of their words, and contribute to a public discourse that is painfully relevant to their generation," Hurwitz said in a press release.

To do this, the present research compared the ability of a word-based dot-probe task (ie, lower ecological validity) and picture-based dot-probe task (ie, higher ecological validity) to detect attentional biases using generally selected (ie, lower personal relevance) and idiosyncratically selected stimuli (ie, higher personal relevance).

He was famous beyond the ability of the word to define that; loved as an athlete, beloved as a person.

Good (n = 8) and poor readers (n = 21) were differentiated based on reading ability (Test of Word Reading Efficiency; see Reading and working memory, below) [ 5].

Pseudowords (auditory) aim to measure spelling abilities of pseudowords non-words that sound like real words (30 words, maximum score 30).

I want to assure you that when you attempt to push all my buttons, I have no desire to reciprocate, because my focus on how small your hands are and how childish they still look interferes with the ability of your forceful words to push any buttons, except the patience one.