purely verbal

The reference, purely verbal, that I often made to God in my speeches before the court awakened mistrust in my clients.

And when the remembering of an incident has become a habit, it may be purely verbal, and the memory-belief may consist of words alone.

As well as being purely verbal, the pun can be visual, kinetic, gestural.

Hall made a brief reply and a policeman had to step in to ensure the exchange remained purely verbal.

Transitions (the "dissolves") through metaphor and metonymy are all purely verbal.

Then again, she knew she'd never liked any sort of confrontation, whether it was physical or purely verbal, so perhaps she was overreacting.

It is purely verbal: at every table for two, there must be at least three opinions.

Classical rhetoric had early singled out the critical category of the superficial charmer, whose merit was purely verbal, without underlying substance.

For Jakobson, the emotional qualities of a literary work are secondary to and dependent on purely verbal, linguistic facts" (71).

On rare occasions, the observations were purely verbal.