Sentences with phrase «verbal tic»

In recent translations, all slimes have a certain verbal tic of replacing certain words and syllables with similar, «slimier» ones, such as saying goo instead of good, gooman instead of human, and slime instead of time, to give just a few (or goo) examples.

In any event, literally is the Vice President's favorite intensifier, and is no recent verbal tic:

Titles such as (Holzer, Nadin, and Other Artists) Baby Blue (1982) playfully mimic the familiar verbal tic by which certain artists are named, while the rest are summarized as also - rans.

What I had serious trouble abiding, though, was Tama's verbal tic.

So Fawful becomes an amusing narcissist who speaks in Engrish in the English versions... and then gets a different verbal tic in every other language.

What is it with your verbal tic that makes you put «high - performing» before «charter schools» every time you mention them??? They are not all high - performing.

«Just a verbal tic, I guess.»

But it was the debate over BHP Billiton's ill - fated attempt to acquire Potash Corp. that took «strategic asset» from an occasional buzzword to a full - on verbal tic for some politicians.

Even if you don't shorten «kind of» and «sort of,» Steven Kurutz of The New York Times argues that these phrases have «become a verbal tic, a filler phrase» that we use whenever we're unsure.

People with Tourette syndrome are plagued by unwanted movements and verbal tics that run the gamut from extra eye blinks and grimaces to involuntary grunts or even cursing.

Johansson is also excellent; it's ironic in a way that arguably the best performance of a woman who is so well known for her physical characteristics is the one where she is never actually on screen, but her voice work is just as necessary to believe there is something real to the relationship, and the subtle verbal tics she uses are mightily effective.

, like uh composer David Arnold's fascinating process of discussing his score - in - progress with the leads, but they are few and far between the verbal tics of man to whom investors have entrusted screenplay duties on many occasions.

Popular stereotypes and generalities have played a role, priming parents and teachers to look for telltale signals of autism such as hand flapping and verbal tics, failure to make eye contact, or a laser - like fixation on trucks or dinosaurs.

Meanwhile, if you hate little chirpy helpers with verbal tics you probably won't stand tag - a-long tutorial - giver Tama, who prefaces every other word with «the -».

«Sh - i - i - i - i - t,» Fogel's prerecorded voice loops plaintively from inside the car while the head, tail, and interior lights flare on and off in ghostly cadence with the verbal tics.

Two new smartphone apps are trying to help people get over their nervousness and verbal tics and be better public speakers.

Second, the ubiquitous like and you know are so pervasive as verbal tics, or space - fillers, that habitual users simply have no idea how much they're indulging in them.

Not exact matches

Dirk Uys, an Afrikaner, does an «Afrikaner» matron as well as a merciless rendition of every verbal and facial tic of the State President, whom he can uncannily resemble.

Making a meal out of verbal and physical tics that situate his character somewhere on the spectrum, Denzel Washington plays the tunnel - visioned title hero, a Los Angeles attorney and relic of the fist - in - the - air 1960s who's never been good with people but possesses an encyclopedic mind for research.

Instead, Gyllenhaal turns in a performance that is method acting taken to the extreme, plagued by a litany of nervous tics and verbal stutters.