Sentence examples for For recitation from inspiring English sources

A more developed form ("ecphonetic" notation) was used for recitation of Byzantine liturgical chants.

All the children got prizes and even though little Terry was a demon they gave her a prize for recitation.

While this stretches the performance somewhat, it also shows that Mr. Brinkman is more than an obsessively overstimulated Darwin fanboy with a talent for recitation.

Good teachers would see a hundred ways of incorporating education: education for use, rather than for recitation on an exam script.

But then what of The Iliad or Beowulf, composed for recitation but plonked on the page for posterity – would we not consider those literature?

But as Rubin's book makes clear, my grandfather's head for recitation, as well as his poetic repertoire, was a widespread phenomenon, fostered by educators and civic leaders alike.

The manuscript at Asia Society was probably a kind of prompt-book for recitations.

Some of the most exquisitely stylized Korans basically functioned as prompt books for recitations by users who knew the sacred text by heart.

With his suave baritone, which he sometimes uses for recitations à la Barry White, Mr. Olomide sings a breezy variant of soukous he calls Tcha Tcho.

I am sorry that the planners of the Sept. 11 commemoration concluded that a new speech written and delivered by an incumbent elected official would be too political and opted instead for recitations of writings and speeches by deceased leaders.

Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle... say any of their names to a serious fan of comedy and you're likely to elicit a reverential sigh of importance, followed by a word-for-word recitation of one of their most famous bits.