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  • Some kind of subverbal trigger in his words caused me to know exactly what he was talking about.

    The Mall of America 2002

  • Some kind of subverbal trigger in his words caused me to know exactly what he was talking about.

    The Mall of America 2002

  • He communicates through a kind of subverbal music, half-heard and absorbed rather than cogitated on.

    Cold Fury 2008

  • Maybe something so bizarre it was subverbal, something that would make him a constant target in talk-show monologues and stand-up routines?

    My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

  • The actors playing of the teacher/student lovers went haywire overdoing their distraught passion, and the subtle, subverbal messaging that marked Noth-Annabella Sciorra's partnership was replaced here by a lot of explicit exposition every time Noth and Nicholson got in/got out of a car together.

    Memo to Dick Wolf: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • Reaction: Character reaction ranging from visceral to verbal/subverbal.

    Survived another workshop! zornhau 2006

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