It is still difficult for him to read English, but he has looked at this message so many times that he can almost recite it by heart.
Bob Hoskins presents much the same problem as Michael Caine - when he's in chirpy Cockney mode, doing his familiar anecdotes, he seems likeable enough, but you know it's an act, and you can't help noticing that there are whole chunks of his interviews you could almost recite by heart.
You just have to love someone', she is, it feels, almost reciting an authorial manifesto.
In interviews, the 49-year-old politician comes across as almost robotic, reciting policy positions with a blank gaze and a frozen smile.
I memorized it almost immediately, recited it, and he offered me the role of Princess Ying Yaowalak, the only speaking part for a kid in the musical.
A large concluding part of the exhibition is devoted to contemporary Maya culture; in interviews Maya recite almost formulaic comments about efforts to reconstitute their lost identity.
I can now recite almost word perfect every line from Nicolas Cage's Bangkok Dangerous.
From the mayor to a taxi driver waiting for his fare outside a supermarket, to the owner of one of the city's many antiques stores, almost everyone will recite the numbers — 40,000 in the 1950s, 3,000 today — as if they represented the score in a lopsided contest between this city's past and its present.
When you read, as a Swede, that we have the third highest number of reported cases of violence against women in the EU – 46% of the Swedish women surveyed had such experiences, just behind Denmark's 52% and Finland's 47% – it's almost instinctive to recite the reasons why this is actually a good thing.
They're made to eat pastry with broken glass, marry each other, crawl on their hands and knees in the nude, and, of course, eat shit, all while the men recite almost beautiful sentiments justifying their actions.
They're made to eat pastry with broken glass in, marry each other, crawl on their hands and knees in the nude and, of course, eat shit, all while the men recite almost beautiful sentiments justifying their actions.
