The idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

His father used to get knocked for odd verbalism, syntax, etc. but nothing, nothing like GW.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quote Of The Day] Reference

We may surround the subject with a vague and attractive idealistic verbalism, but we come back to this as a starting point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference

Without action, teaching is merely verbalism and amounts to exhorting the farmers to do this or that without showing them how to do it and thus has limited impact on their farming practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

It has been noted that people do creative work in the social sciences at a later age than people in science and maths, I think that is because it takes longer to find out the genuine problems that are hidden in the verbalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humans as Creators Not Destroyers - The Austrian Economists] Reference

There is still another aspect - that of impotence disguised by verbalism: taking a stand on legal positions which cannot become a reality and planning counter-measures for contingencies that always differ from the one at hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willy Brandt - Nobel Lecture] Reference

It was to be taken up again some centuries later by the Port-Royal grammarians in a far more adequate form, freed from the hampering medie - val veneration for authorities and from the sterile verbalism of the Schoolmen, and based on a far broader foundation of factual knowledge of languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [STUDY OF LANGUAGE] Reference

If, moreover, it then happens that verbalism finds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History] Reference

Though it can be cultivated, good verbalism is an innate ability, and a most valuable one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foundations of Personality] Reference

Aristotelian logic itself did not become mere syllogistic and verbalism, without some stumbling and oscillation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

It is impossible not to see a clear discrepancy between the 'peace loving' verbalism and the murderous reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

To me, Tennyson shows more than any poet I know (perhaps has been a warning to me) how much there is in finest verbalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

In Mr. Bradley's difficulty in seeing how sugar can be sweet intellectualism outstrips itself and becomes openly a sort of verbalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference

But if he forgets that he has substituted and simplified, he soon lapses into verbalism, and begins to talk about names regardless of objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Opinion] Reference

As regards grammatical forms, Vico may be described as an adherent of the great reaction of the Renaissance against scholastic verbalism and formalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

There is a certain affinity, apparently at least, between that formal vice of verbalism and another defect of the mind, whose origins may, however, be varied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History] Reference

Metaphysics used words and conceptions of multi-dimensional meanings which of necessity resulted in hopeless confusion, in “a talking” about words, in mere verbalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood of Humanity.] Reference

Perhaps more than anyone else, the Fabians are responsible for turning English socialist thought from the verbalism of the Marxian disciples to the actualities of English political life.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Preface to Politics] Reference

If only these three words could be scientifically defined, philosophy, law, ethics and psychology would cease to be “private theories” or verbalism and they would advance to the rank and dignity of sciences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood of Humanity.] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference

I. This class of studies, like many others, but this more than any other, is confronted with a great difficulty, indeed an irksome hindrance, in that vice of minds educated by literary methods alone which is ordinarily called verbalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History] Reference

And in point of fact, we do find in his plays, year by year, a strengthening sense of the realities of human nature, despite their frequently idealistic method of portraiture, the verbalism and factitiousness of much of their wit, and their conventionality of plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montaigne and Shakspere] Reference

Plastic as he was, he none the less underwent a normal evolution; and his early concreteness and verbalism and externality had to be gradually transmuted into a more inward knowledge of life and art before there could be superimposed on that the mood of the thinker, reflectively aware of the totality of what he had passed through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montaigne and Shakspere] Reference

Indeed, there used to be a consensus that believers in vague objects were committing the fallacy of verbalism ” inferring that an object has the property that its representation has.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagueness] Reference

“systems” as a complex whole, and they must not intermix dimensions; (2) they must see the danger and not be afraid of old words with wrong meanings, but must use clear and rigorous thinking to eliminate the prejudices in science — the poison of metaphysical speculating with words, or verbalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood of Humanity.] Reference

But there is always much verbalism in idealism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference

I have not seen without learning something therefrom, how, with hardly an exception, the poets of this age devote themselves, always mainly, sometimes altogether, to fine rhyme, spicy verbalism, the fabric and cut of the garment, jewelry, concetti, style, art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good-Bye my Fancy ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference