So over the past three days, in a series of striking speeches, General Musharraf has been addressing those who will vote on Thursday, defending not only his presidency, but his vision of Islam as a tolerant religion.
July to October saw what Churchill in June 1940 had called, in one of his many striking speeches, the "Battle of Britain".
But as one's ear adjusts to the, let's call it "stylised dialogue," it preps you for some pretty striking speeches by the third act.
He has delivered a striking number of speeches in swing states which he needs to retain in 2012, for example.
Before "You Are I Am," from the new album, Mr. Millard gave a striking, even slightly indignant speech about self-esteem and the misstep of denying your self-worth before a higher power.
They have a striking similarity to the speech recognition problem: there is a finite vocabulary, which despite inter- and intra-person variability, is reproducible; how events follow one another is strongly predictable (i.e., the task has a grammar); each event has an evolving temporal structure well modelled by left-to-right HMMs.
But that image was what political consultants call optics – for democracies around the world have recently seen a striking wave of anti-speech legislation.
And yet his speech, to a striking degree, was all about guns.
In a way, the speech was a striking legacy of the uprising: the reimagining of power that once sought prestige though its very distance from those without it.
In a striking passage to his opening speech, he said: "Fewer journalists does not mean less news, it means more PR.
