Sentence examples for dumb language from inspiring English sources

Only the dumb language of injury and illness was abundantly available.

The United States responded with characteristic forbearance and circumspection, renaming the fried potatoes served in congressional cafeterias "freedom fries" and ridiculing presidential candidate John Kerry for actually speaking the dumb language.

Mr. Tennyson went about soliloquizing in deaf-and-dumb language.

A man amuses himself listening in on deaf-and-dumb language.

By Dorothea F. Sullivan, Richard Lockridge, and Harold Ross The New Yorker, May 6 , 1933P. 16 A man amuses himself listening in on deaf-and-dumb language.

Like Warhol, Arbus used the dumbest language possible to describe her work.

I don't think that you can get to hyper-dumb using language to express an idea.

Perhaps because the experience of moviegoing remains one of sensuous immediacy and subjective feeling -- because both good movies and bad ones have the power to strike us dumb -- the language of movie talk is thick with abstractions and received ideas.

Landy writes delightfully crisp, accurate prose, managing to be witty without any sense of dumbing down the language or pandering to teen-speak.

But there's a self-distancing joke in the band's fist-pumping, head-banging, dumb-show body language of rocking out, a laugh at the idea of transcendence in music, a big who cares that is insurance against the possibility of bad art.

And so I feel dumbing down the language or aka modernizing it is just the most destructive thing.