If speech occurs it is restricted to terse responses or monosyllables. Mutism is not uncommon in the older population. Since it is often caused by brain damage, mutism is considered a neurological ...

Accustomed as the modern reader may be to scanning, with perfect composure, those clumps of naughty monosyllables that make up the ordinary “powerful” novel of sexual deviation, he is apt to ...

Leaving aside Ms Jardine’s astonishing gift for breezily ignoring the concerns of the medical profession one minute only to ...

The strong monosyllables in thou maun live emphasise the absolute need for survival. Burns was making a radical point here about the redistribution of human wealth.

The sign that he is at home is that his language is plain; it is the human vernacular, as simple on the surface as monosyllables can make it. Strangely enough this is what makes some readers say ...

Her daughter was coming here directly; but I felt I ought to have some suggestions, some arrangements to propose in the event that— Sympathetic monosyllables from my interlocutor. The family ...

Shipmate! Where are we?" The peasant looked them over slowly, then directed them in reluctant monosyllables to the main passageway which would lead them back to their own village. A brisk walk of a ...

HOLLIE MCNISH: 'Peace question mark. I hate the word'. I hate the word is all monosyllables. It's like dum dum dum dum. This is what I think. As I hate hell. And then the next part of the sentence ...

dishevelled and replied to the host in monosyllables. Getty Images Phoenix's appearance on the Late Show was widely mocked. "We're having fun," chided Letterman, "I'll come to your house and chew ...

Sponsor Message The story about my dad choosing his own pseudonym is that he was told he should have a solid, two-monosyllables, good English name. And he was so irritated by this advice that he ...

It symbolises new beginnings and was meticulously set and adorned with the seven auspicious edible monosyllables (all beginning with ‘S’): sabzeh (green sprouts), samanu (sweet pudding), senjed (dried ...

asks Daphnis at the conclusion of Sonnet 17, the double-rhyme (-uring) and extra eleventh syllable extending both the lines and Daphnis’ regretful yearning, so that the sound of the poem fades, rather ...