verbalism

I will not weary you with the verbalism, since you will be able to check it; the substance of my proclamation is this: I announce first that I have captured the English millionaire, the colossus of finance, Mr Samuel Harrogate.

My own remedy for this is to turn to (a) the general semanticists, who devote themselves to this danger in particular, and (b) the artists, whose particular job it is to experience freshly, to see (and help us to see) the world as it is, and not as it looks when screened through a web of concepts, verbalisms, abstractions, categories, and theories.

The teaching of language was understood to potentially interfere with the development of the self-system as the young child learns that certain vocal processes, referred to as 'verbalisms' (p.

431, 438-51 (1930) (distinguishing between abstract legal verbalisms and concrete empirical facts while highlighting the inherent ambiguities of concepts).

at 815 ("To deny an accused a choice of procedure in circumstances in which he, though a layman, is as capable as any lawyer of making an intelligent choice, is to impair the worth of great Constitutional safeguards by treating them as empty verbalisms." (quoting Adams v.

Almost all the books [written by Quevedo] are quotidian in plan, but remarkable in the verbalisms of their making....

In universities I always felt the presence of a cottony wad of verbalisms between the poet and the poem--the constant presence of all kinds of extraneous and far-fetched theories and explanations of poems.

The inescapable dilemma at the heart of curriculum and instruction must, once and for all be made clear: either teaching everything of importance reduces it to trivial, forgettable verbalisms or lists; or schooling is a necessarily inadequate apprenticeship, where "preparation" means something quite humble: learning to know and do a few important things well and leaving out much of importance.