Sentence examples for bear to speak from inspiring English sources

But his father could not bear to speak even a word of German.

Her mother, when she came to collect her, could hardly bear to speak to us.

Weeks went by after we'd broken up during which I simply couldn't bear to speak to him when I came home at night.

Madame Curie, her daughter later said, could not bear to speak of him and plunged herself even more deeply into her work.

I have known too many people, including Harold Macmillan, who could not bear to speak of what they saw of its horrors.

And yet it all feels entirely rational and important and that if the boy didn't have the bear to speak to, then he would have no one.

Her authorship soon leaked out and the Cross Street congregation were furious at the harsh picture of the mill owners painted by their minister's wife, but Gaskell stuck to the Unitarian belief that it was one's duty to bear witness, to speak out against social injustice (other notable Unitarian women included Florence Nightingale and the feminists Harriet Martineau and Barbara Bodichon).

We do that in the name of protecting important constitutional rights, including that to bear arms, to speak freely and to make our own decisions, even if we're mentally disturbed.

She acknowledges that he was probably, at times, a terrible bore, not to speak of a burden to his family.

While conceding that there was "no news" to report from Auschwitz, as "the screams can no longer be heard," Rosenthal felt an overwhelming impulse to bear witness and to speak for the dead.

I've just finished watching every episode of The West Wing, which is astonishing, and then there's Dexter, Damages... Radio My girlfriend loves Radio 4, but, because I'm a writer, I can't bear to have spoken word in the house while I'm working.