The use of verbal acrobatics learned in law school makes me feel like a petty thief.

The verbal acrobatics share the bill with physical ones from the Mapapa Acrobats and Streb Kid Action.

No matter, the Reagan team is on its way out, the verbal acrobatics can be set aside, and a beginning made on addressing the real and immense policy problems.

Often the causerie is a current-opinion piece, but it contains more verbal acrobatics and humor than a regular opinion or column.

Behind the verbal acrobatics on this issue stand substantial political questions whose resolution is extremely complex.

If it was there, it was there, and no amount of verbal acrobatics could make it go away.

It is of course a piece of verbal acrobatics and metrical high-jinks; and was intended for recitation with great variations of speed.

She did some verbal acrobatics as to her reason, which seemed to pacify her source.

If I tried to sort out that question, he would tumble me in verbal acrobatics until I gave up hoping for an answer.

For verbal acrobatics, perpetual punning and provoking subtexts, "The America Play" is a cerebral workout.