Their very linguistic perception of the world is being deformed, and we rapidly discover they are being reared in rural seclusion by a middle-aged businessman and his passive, acquiescent wife.
There is a very real linguistic and cultural difficulty involved in writing about Francis Veber's excellent little comedy Le Dîner de Cons.
Gadamer contends, however, that such an unqualified hypostasisation of reason and its methods has the unfortunate consequence of condemning as methodologically groundless the very valuations that ordinary linguistic and experiential practices are based on.
In other words, a correlation between IQ and school achievement may emerge because the test items demand the very kinds of (learned) linguistic and cognitive structures that are also the currency of schooling (Olson, 2005).
Eike's breaky heart Prescription for change No Denglisch Spooked by shale ReprintsGermany has no official guardian of linguistic purity; the very idea of it would bring back unpleasant memories of the 1930s.
I love the way that word's usage merges high-minded linguistic expression with the very bodily, mechanical act of pressing something to force its inside out.
Mendelssohn finds linguistic considerations at the very heart of traditional philosophical questions.
Quine (1953) pressed his objection to analyticity further to the very ideas of synonymy and the linguistic meaning of an expression, on which, we saw, Frege's criterion of analyticity crucially relied.
Oddly enough, I 'd just performed at the very same Metropolitan Room, including my unusual linguistic skill (talking backwards), with a bit on The Wizard of Oz in reverse.
The very concept constitutes a kind of linguistic sleight-of-hand, directing our attention from the myriad ways that governments - local, state, as well as the federal government - intervene on behalf of and in ways that benefit corporate interests.
