Sentence examples similar to verbal mess from inspiring English sources
It's also vital that the world – designed without people like us in mind – gives us the help we need to function as adults, without worrying that we won't be able to buy a loaf of bread without being reduced to a semi-verbal mess.
After one verbal dispute in the mess hall, another inmate beat her mercilessly with a cafeteria tray.
He "was a charming mess — extravagantly verbal, always in a flamboyant dither," Wexler wrote in "Rhythm and the Blues: A Life in American Music" (with David Ritz).
He fit right into the original show's sweary behind-the-scenes look at political manoeuvring, squaring up to Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker and perfecting his gravel-voiced "don't mess with me" verbal menace.
Into this hot mess we now have a Supreme Court Justice carelessly tossing verbal grenades about the capacity of Black students to succeed in college.
In this vein, work in our laboratory has demonstrated distinct neural signatures for habits of thought corresponding to representing information in a verbal versus a visual modality (Hsu, Kraemer, Oliver, Schlichting, & Thompson-Schill, 2011; Kraemer, Hamilton, Messing, DeSantis, & Thompson-Schill, 2014a, Kraemer, Rosenberg, & Thompson-Schill, 2009).
Using such an analysis, Messing and Durgin found similar effects of a subtle horizon shift on explicit verbal distance estimation and on a distance-walking task conducted with a different set of participants.
