verbalism
Example Sentences
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Through the echoes of the new verbalism, one can sense the distress of that crystal spirit, George Orwell.
From Time Magazine Archive
We may surround the subject with a vague and attractive idealistic verbalism, but we come back to this as a starting point.
From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Chapman Cohen
The excess of verbalism, indeed, gives the play a sugary and monotonous effect, and its poetry loses connection with character or situation.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
In the place of book-learning, which disgusts him by its smell of the closet, its continued prating of Aristotle, and its self-exhaustion in useless verbalism, Sanchez desires to substitute a knowledge of things.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
This use of words would again become mere verbalism, a mere talking about words—mere speculation having nothing to do with facts or with correct thinking, in which there is no intermixing of dimensions.
From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski
