Sentence examples for amusing speech from inspiring English sources

One of these, played by Kaurismäki regular Kati Outinen, has a drily amusing speech, declining the chance to buy out the whole business on the grounds that she is retiring to Mexico to "dance the hula-hula" – an oddly Polynesian thing to be doing in Mexico.

Holloway being the unique character he is, then goes off on a typically amusing speech about a scene from Apollo 13 and, even after listening to the tape a dozen times, it is still difficult to know exactly what he means.

Before Murray accepted it with a gracious and amusing speech, there were cameos from assorted other contenders including Peaty, a vision in his Bernard Manning-esque maroon crushed velvet dickie bow, followed by cycling's most successful newlyweds Jason and Laura Kenny.

He's also got "amusing" speech videos, which are probably aimed at a rather younger audience than us: there's one in which he explains how stupid flies must be to fly into windows.

Amid the prizes for hard-hitting and thought-provoking films such as Fire in Babylon were some amusing speeches.

That's the sort of charity I like: an evening with beautiful, sparkling people, enjoying a splendid boozy feast, listening to amusing speeches then getting your chequebook out – tax-deductible of course.

An 1899 article in the the Mercury described her at a church benefit as giving a "neat, intelligent and amusing little speech, in good idiomatic English.

In his amusing acceptance speech, Maxwell made much of the fact that the box handed him, ostensibly containing the medal, was in fact empty, a precaution taken because at a previous occasion a freshly presented medal had been accidentally dropped and damaged.

By the time Fyfe had finished his humble, plain-speaking and genuinely amusing acceptance speech last night, with host Bruce McAvaney and a good deal of the football-loving public reduced to outright fawning, you'd assume that some of the old stagers had also seen something of the past in the winner's no-frills country manner.

Mr. Altuzarra, who has been a favorite in the race for the last two years, did not appear to be nervous, though Alexander Wang, his friend and the 2008 fund winner, told him to "just zone out" while Calvin Klein was giving an amusing 20-minute speech about his own days as a young designer.

Mr. Altuzarra, the young designer who has been a favorite in the race for the last two years, did not appear to be nervous, though Alexander Wang, his friend and the 2008 fund winner, told him to "just zone out" while Calvin Klein was giving an amusing 20-minute speech about his own days as a young designer.