Sentence examples for oral character from inspiring English sources

Underlying all of the written forms is some trace of an oral character, partly because of the monumental persuasiveness of Homer's example but more largely because the epic was, in fact, born of an oral tradition.

In this paper, focusing upon issues of time and space use and the oral character of informal social contexts and relationships, we have attempted to illustrate some of these contradictions as we experienced them during our own fieldwork with our older Pakistani Muslim participants living in the UK.

Being in stark contrast to the oral character of most informal social contexts and relationships, including those within which we were conducting our own fieldwork, the introduction of written information sheets and consent forms made the process much more formal and official (see Wiles et al. 2007).

Like any set of oral reflections, The Character of Physical Law has special value as a demonstration of the mind in action.

The possible premalignant character of oral lichen planus and oral lichenoid lesions: a prospective study.

The possible premalignant character of oral lichen planus and oral lichenoid lesions: a prospective five-year follow-up study of 192 patients.

One of the more startling moments comes when his character has oral sex performed on him in a library.

After she tells her story, which begins with the extraction of wisdom teeth and moves into oral incest, Mr. Whaley's character is the one who's impressed.

On the contrary: Anglo-Saxon prosody, entirely accentual rather than syllabic, developed as a mnemonic system in an oral tradition, formulaic in character and anything but "instinctive".

An NC-17 rating was also given to 2010's Blue Valentine due to a scene in which Ryan Gosling's character performed oral sex on Michelle Williams' lead.

Focusing upon data from digital mediascapes across the GSN, (potentially) enables going beyond both these biases since Web 2.0 sites are de facto not "merely" oral or monolingual in character (Crystal 2011; Jewitt 2009).