Mutism (inability to talk), extreme compliance, and absence of almost all voluntary actions are also common.
It laughs at English eccentricities, foibles and inability to talk about emotion.
"Now, there's more togetherness," he said, though he admitted that his wife's inability to talk made it hard for her.
Confused and frustrated by the child's inability to talk or walk, they proclaimed that the child must be bewitched.
In "Summer" (1986), Marie Rivière's desperately lonely Delphine speaks at considerable length about her inability to talk.
"The Conservatives were hamstrung by their ludicrous migration cap and the inability to talk positively," said Straw.
Dundee's most galling defeat, he said, was his inability to talk Ali out of his planned humiliation of Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas in 1965.
Because of our inability to talk sensibly about taxes, the United States has been sliding toward second-class status in the world economy.
"You'd only squander it all in one night of drinking False Sense of Own Attractiveness Provider at the Utter Inability To Talk To The Opposite Sex Arms".
Their readiness to break literary and political taboos suggests that Germans may slowly be starting to shed their inability to talk candidly about the present without being inhibited by their past.
He quotes Cormac McCarthy on our inability to talk about death, "the major issue in the world," before claiming that "I'm trying to do a very un-American thing here: talk about it".
