What is "verbal description"

Usage examples of "verbal description".

Witnesses commonly exhibit a total failure in verbal description of an individual previously encountered, but high accuracy in recognizing the same individual when seen again.

Whenever precognitive Talents responded to an Incident, they would flash the Center, alerting Control to receive a verbal description of what they had previewed.

It was an entirely new means of communication, one that cut readily across interspecies barriers in a way verbal description of abstract concepts could not.

They had made drawings of him, based on Aaron's verbal description, which had come to him through the Talamasca.

Instead, he had prepared a rather detailed map, and provided a verbal description of how to get there, and of the building itself.

The state of consciousness becomes then insusceptible of any verbal description.

Jonny nodded wordlessly, his eyes shifting to Bai as the instructor finished his verbal description of the maneuver and stepped to the edge to demonstrate.

It looked to Bart as though an indifferent artist working from a verbal description had molded a fish out of pudding.

I thought I heard a shrill, whistling sound, like nothing else on earth, and beyond any adequate verbal description.

To those who have had the experience, a verbal description would doubtless be superfluous.

To those who have not had the experience a verbal description would doubtless be unilluminating, if not unintelligible.

A verbal description would have made him seem to be much more like Charles in appearance than was actually the case.

I had read about it, but a verbal description can't possibly prepare a visitor for the real thing.