Sentence examples for a private utterance from inspiring English sources
This was not a private utterance or personal feeling of deep emotion that he shared with friends and family.
Sometimes the style of referring to intimates is oddly stilted, seeming more appropriate to a public speech than any sort of private utterance: "Matthew (aged 9), who was sleeping in the twin bed during my wife's absence…" Referring to "Sundrin Dutta, the great Bengali writer" may be well-meant, but repeating the phrase exactly in a later entry makes it look as if you haven't actually read a word.
For two months, he walked around with a lavalier mic hooked to his shirt, keeping tabs of every conversation, every private utterance.
But Shostakovich thought of his 15 string quartets as private utterances, like diary entries.
Beyond noting that his private utterances were in marked contrast to his public behaviour, which was ever polite, Larkin's racism is uncomfortable and indefensible, even when you put it in the context of his times.
Meanwhile, a private voice — speaking in that tone of wry resignation so common to inner voices prohibited from public utterance — is reasonably asking, "Hey, hold on a minute, what if I hate it?" The stage is all set for poignancy.
A private sector emerged.
