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"You're a talented athlete," said to an Olympian: authentic, no verbal irony present.
That is verbal irony.
While all sarcasm fits the definition of verbal irony, not all verbal irony is sarcastic.
Verbal irony is where what is meant is the opposite of what is said, while sarcasm adds that little punch of attitude.
Alright, now go out there and find those examples of verbal irony and sarcasm.
No verbal irony here.
Engage actively with the verbal and nonverbal feedback of others, and adjust your message to facilitate greater understanding.
People very expressive of the testosterone system tend to be analytical, logical, direct, decisive, and they go for their opposite: they go for somebody who's high estrogen, somebody who's got very good verbal skills and people skills, who's very intuitive and who's very nurturing and emotionally expressive.
I've learned to solicit a lot more verbal feedback.
It was very complicated, so using verbal communication was obviously the way to go, but there were 132 languages.
And in the Western world, we're not really used to verbal silences.
So silence preceding verbal communication can create a lot of tension.
There's some really interesting work on how our high intelligence and our verbal abilities might have evolved not to help us find out the truth, but to help us manipulate each other, defend our reputation ... We're really, really good at justifying ourselves.
And that means that I have to frequently excuse myself from my classroom, because my verbal tics can be extremely distracting.
But we believed that we had a very solid methodology that might work ... But despite our verbal assurances, they wanted some proof.
It is not as closely linked with verbal perception, so our fear receptors often will be going off in advance of any of our cognitive usage around verbal and words and cues of language.
Borders are important because you can provide to people arriving from areas that might be at risk of having had infection, provide them with an understanding, either a printed understanding or a verbal understanding, of what the signs and symptoms are of this infection, and what they should do if they feel that they might be infected.
On our opening exchange, it was like a verbal sparring match where he threw the first punches.
Beginning in the late 19th century, researchers hypothesized that cognitive abilities like verbal reasoning, working memory, and visual-spatial skills reflected an underlying general intelligence, or g factor.
You have to get away from verbal language.
And then there's a verbal mind, they know every fact about everything.
But the script is simply devoid of one-liners, wit, humour or punch lines of the verbal or physical kind that this kind of film demands.
It is chock full of smart shots of colors and shapes and verbal excursions into Freudian psychology to be appreciated by art students and teachers alike, but in general it is perceived a stupid mockery of good cinema, good storytelling and generally good taste.
For example, one of the laziest copouts for a filmmaker involves forced verbal exposition where characters basically explain everything for the viewer even when the constructed scenario is totally artificial.
Anyone apologising gets a faceful of heavy verbal artillery).
"The Evil That Men Do" begins with a truly repellent torture scene, followed, a little later, by graphic verbal descriptions of equally repellent torture methods that the sadistic, heartless villain likes to use.
The fact that "The Evil That Men Do" is very disturbing (in its verbal and visual depictions of torture) is not the problem.
A lot of that comes from the lines spoken(what is said as well as how it is), and those who dig British efforts with focus on verbal, the likes of 'Allo 'Allo or the BlackAdder franchise will want to check this sucker out.
The film is full of sight-gags like this balanced with verbal wit which makes it just about perfect.
David Niven in fourth billing has some funny 'business' as does Franklin Pangborn and if Gary Cooper is not up to his role lacking as he does the verbal dexterity and sophisticated persona that Wilder scripts called for at this stage of his career well, you can't have everything and what you DO have is darned near perfect.
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