Sentence examples for a sharp speech from inspiring English sources

Vice President Dick Cheney opened the debate with a sharp speech criticizing Mr. Kerry in March 2004 at the same time the campaign began airing its first negative advertisements.

In flying to New York City, the president wants to confront the financial industry more directly through a sharp speech just a few minutes' subway ride from Wall Street, and with some of its leading corporate titans in the audience.

In a sharp speech, Abraham Kaul, the president of the community group, criticized Britain's refusal to allow the extradition of a former Iranian ambassador to Argentina who was indicted here last year, and also complained about a lack of cooperation in Switzerland in determining how the attack was financed.

Tom Watson, one of the heroes of the phone-hacking saga who is cheered wherever he appears, makes a funny and sharp speech at the Tribune rally, and perhaps points the way to a new post-Blairite consensus that will not automatically be hammered by the hackarati.

Instead, he offers a sharp stump speech, tightened to about six minutes.

Framing a sharp little speech about the care of furnaces and the use of soft coal, he phoned the convent, and asked to speak to the Mother Superior.

On Monday, however, the sentimentality and girlishness were gone as she gave a sharp-edged speech casting herself as a pol of proven dynamism in a field of pandering lightweights.

In mid-November, after a shake-up in his own campaign, Mr. Kerry began delivering a sharper stump speech, including the climactic line "Bring it on," which hits the same rebellious chord as Dr. Dean's rallying cries.

But he has a sharp ear for speech and a gift for spotting individualizing gestures; "The Known World" is crowded with individuals who refuse to get lost in the vast picture of humiliation and disgrace it presents.

Meanwhile, those juices that were rated as tasting sour were consistently matched with angular shapes, sharper speech sounds, sounds with a higher pitch, and were liked less.

Her works combine humour and psychological acuity with a sharp ear for regional speech patterns.