inarticulacy

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There was something vital about the way he played - though in the early days he could barely play at all, fuzz-toned and wah-wah-ed to the hilt - that managed to convey all the inarticulacy of adolescence, the sense of menace and compulsion and balled-up potential, not to mention the sheer red-bloodedness of youth.

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  • There was something vital about the way he played - though in the early days he could barely play at all, fuzz-toned and wah-wah-ed to the hilt - that managed to convey all the inarticulacy of adolescence, the sense of menace and compulsion and balled-up potential, not to mention the sheer red-bloodedness of youth. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • Also integral to differential diagnosis of anxiety is inarticulacy or learning difficulty, according to Dr Slater's presentation. —  IMT Home
  • Yet it also symbolizes the group's political inarticulacy. —  PopMatters
  • J. Mitchell Morse (1912-2004), an out-of-print professor of English who wrote intelligently throughout his career, with especial emphasis on the abuse of the English language by our population and how that self-abuse would be the guarantor of the political, moral and functional decline of our republic. “To the extent that the establishment depends on the inarticulacy of the governed, good writing is inherently subversive. †Given that statistics tell us that As little as $16.97 for 12 months of Harper's - plus access to our 158-year archive. —  Harper's Magazine
  • It is to redress this widespread inarticulacy that the government has assigned Sir Jim Rose, a former Ofsted chieftain, to improve the quality of spoken English in primary schools. —  Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed
 

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