Sentence examples for verbal level from inspiring English sources

Like any novice con man, cub reporter, or budding sociopath, Holden learns to float at the interlocutors' verbal level.

A more challenging case could be made that in funnelling all the characters' stories through Faye's very refined sensibility (there's little direct speech), Cusk gives them all a certain high-polished sameness, at least at the purely verbal level.

The account is characterized by the extreme consciousness of the protagonists: the inarticulate struggles of earlier generations are now succeeded at the verbal level by earnest or bitter debate.

It tied together the conceit of the dessert; its green edge and speckled red core made plain how the watermelon radish got its name, and made the dessert's leap from radish to melon work on a visual as well as a verbal level.

In this study we want to take a closer look at how these focus shifts look on the verbal level.

Boys in this group are 10% more likely than girls to end up at the highest (above 750) verbal level.

Even in poetry there can be an interaction of visual and verbal levels, sometimes achieved by patterning the stanza form.

As long as the psychology of the studios is that movies have to appeal on a non-verbal level, people who tell stories are going to be excited about moving to television.

Then as we make new choices, we communicate at a non-verbal level more clearly the authentic brand and leadership we'd like to build.

"When the verbal crystallisation level is going to sleep, another level which makes longer leaps of connection and is more intuitive gets a shot at the steering wheel for a second".

Character names are always a good way of calibrating a writer's verbal energy level.