Sentence examples for verbal puzzles from inspiring English sources

Children love riddles, and traditional oral culture is full of riddles and verbal puzzles.

Tests for verbal reasoning usually involve solving verbal puzzles and providing word definitions.

"This Zen guy went through thirty or so of the verbal puzzles and just drew a blank," Kounios said.

A poem thus designed could also contain intriguing verbal puzzles that only yield themselves to quiet scrutiny on the page.

He eventually settled on a series of verbal puzzles, based on ones used by a psychologist in the early nineteen-sixties, which he named the Compound Remote Associate Problems, or CRAP.

These days there's another verbal puzzle, NewcastleGateshead, a bit of civic branding that for all I know should be pronounced "new-castlegates-head".

One implication of this is that if we're trying to solve a verbal puzzle the prefrontal cortex will selectively activate the specific brain areas involved with verbal processing.

It also suggests a style of Zen pedagogy in which a visual or verbal puzzle (in this case, how does one catch a slippery catfish with a small gourd?) prompts a dialogue between master and pupil as an exercise toward enlightenment.

"Senjo," Active Eye's first project, is based on a Zen koan, or verbal puzzle, about a young woman who separates her body from her soul, working in Buddhist chanting, poetry by Lucas Hnath and music, some of it performed by members of a contemporary music ensemble, counter)induction.

His literary gamesmanship evokes verbal puzzle-makers like Borges, and his ingenious chessboard plots bring to mind the 20th century's grand-master strategist, Vladimir Nabokov.

Junior Electronics You'd be right to expect a solo album from Stereolab's engineer and keyboardist (since 2004) to be full of verbal and compositional puzzles.