The concert explores the "yawp" - and its implications for the "primitive and direct poetics" that Coleman argues is distinctly American. From Wordnik.com. [Bostonist] Reference
It thus becomes an inarticulate patriotic "yawp," of tremendous ear-splitting power. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870] Reference
Twitter photos love-notes e-mail design hosted yawp!. From Wordnik.com. [natinski Diary Entry] Reference
I sound my barbaric yawp from the rooftops of the world. From Wordnik.com. [The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said] Reference
When you are young, you'd rather yawp than fear the future. From Wordnik.com. [hedge] Reference
I'm sure I've muttered your barbaric yawp in my car a few times. From Wordnik.com. [Can't You See We're in Crisis Mode, People? - SpouseBUZZ] Reference
"If you will stop your damned yawp I will accept your amendment.". From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
She may not contain multitudes, but she's Whitman's barbaric yawp. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Title Genius; Peeling Back the Language of America By Heart] Reference
The baby stirred and made a small, faint yawp! noise against his neck. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Aaron learned of our being there, and gave that yawp to show his anger. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery] Reference
Perhaps Wolfe's third novel will be a happier -- more realistic -- yawp. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Wolfe's Rooftop Yawp] Reference
With apologies to the same Walt Whitman, cruising boys was my "barbaric yawp.". From Wordnik.com. [James Pinkerton: Maf54 Speaks] Reference
Nor did she yawp with the competitive desperation that was usually so apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]
The man in the alligator shirt, maybe a Walt Whitman fan, voiced his barbaric yawp. From Wordnik.com. [Blaze]
Oh, yawp, my eers got reely colde this a.m. wen I tuuk the hyoomin kittens tew skool!. From Wordnik.com. [hug - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
This thread has led directly though not exclusively to the following OT barbaric yawp. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » And The Reviews Keep Coming In…] Reference
These comments combine to form the primordial yawp of the flustered and the frustrated. From Wordnik.com. [Tired of Living, Scared of Dying] Reference
But now comes Tom Wolfe's second great rooftop yawp of a novel, and suddenly a novel is news. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Wolfe's Rooftop Yawp] Reference
I had teachers like that, though I guess Ilearned quicker than my friend, to keep my yawp shut. From Wordnik.com. [On the Pleasure of Finding a Home] Reference
Half way through this barbaric yawp which echoes both Whitman and Ginsberg, I found myself weeping. From Wordnik.com. [Introducing Khaled Mattawa] Reference
I don't enjoy it when it makes me wince, but at least when I am wincing, I know the yawp is working. From Wordnik.com. [Loyal to the Bitterness] Reference
You know we agreed it was none of our business whether a peacock on the lawn or a dog in his kennel let out that yawp. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery] Reference
This is not completely foolish: when Whitman's "barbaric yawp" comes out of Coltrane's horn, it can be a tough sound to take. From Wordnik.com. [Still Chasin’ the Trane] Reference
At midnight on Jan. 1, 2005, I felt the thrill of time's passage as I joined others in that traditional heartfelt yawp, "Happy New Year!". From Wordnik.com. [In 2005, Big Media and Public Began to Wake Up] Reference
So I swarmed up his coat, seized his dirk, and stifled his yawp, the while I tauld him the steel wad dirl in his gullet did he gie trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
We sounded our barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
As for your brat on horseback, he'd better hold his yawp. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Dust] Reference
Everywhere listening to my yawp and glad whenever they hear it. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
I let out a barbaric yawp, and soon was on the subway for Brooklyn. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
From his raggedly whiskered lips burst a growl and a yawp which, too late, he regretted. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of Weakness] Reference
His first intermediate conclusion, a barbaric yawp: I am, I exist, I am a thinking thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Edge of the American West] Reference
I don't suppose you remember how you used to yawp to me about the job being too much for you!. From Wordnik.com. [The Job An American Novel] Reference
"I loafe and invite my soul," he writes: "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.". From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
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