Sentence examples for astonishing speeches from inspiring English sources

"He's good at making astonishing speeches that make people sit up and take notice," said Mr Paxton.

Mr. Gates, who is superb in repairing the catastrophe left behind by Donald Rumsfeld, has given a series of astonishing speeches in which he calls for more resources for the State Department and aid agencies.

IN THE month of June an attractive black American politician visited a university in Cairo and made an astonishing speech.

· I was intrigued by the astonishing speech to a far-right "thinktank" by Oliver Letwin, the shadow home secretary.

He made a passionate and astonishing speech attacking the United States - made all the more powerful because it was delivered in a husky, throat rasp.

He made many more such shots and then, ironically enough when you remember the furore over the mayhem he brought to the England dressing room last summer, made an astonishing speech about the unshakeable value of team spirit.

Antonio begins the play with an astonishing speech about depression, a singular way to open a comedy: "In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me..."...

Adults can incrementally combine information from speech with astonishing speed to anticipate future words.

The Republican Convention did have a biggie this year, causing an astonishing (and astonished) thirty-seven million people to watch Palin's speech last week — but the blanket coverage didn't leave viewers any better informed.

Great names flit across the pages; great stories, too, about the astonishing variety of human speech and the riches of even the most supposedly primitive, vanishing languages.

The vote may have been tipped by a closing speech of astonishing force and passion by a blind evangelical Christian who rose to become managing director of Lloyds bank after he had lost his sight.