Sentence examples for broken speech from inspiring English sources
Bailey gives a hint of the lay of the land in an impolite but indicative remark about Southern child rearing, made by a British traveler in 1746: "They suffer them too much to prowl amongst the young Negroes, which insensibly causes them to imbibe their Manners and broken Speech".
"Einstein on the Beach" is, ultimately, an opera about broken speech, utterances that falter.
The play is full of broken speech, as if words are being spoken, unbidden, from their subconscious.
As the seemingly nonsensical title suggests, the play is filled with shards of broken speech uttered by fractured characters who would have served the author well in the days of humorous interp.
When I started doing this research I came from a phonetics background where you break speech down, analyse it and build it up again.
There may have been a flaw in her analysis – "it is not a make or break speech for Gordon, because Gordon has already shown everyone in this party what a great leader he is" – but at least she did her bit to bury one of the worst cliches in British politics.
Wearing an abstract floral print that looked like a firework explosion, in a similar palette to that worn by her husband – purple, blue, brown and green, with flashes of red and yellow – Sarah Brown took to the stage today to introduce the prime minister for his "make or break" speech.
Crowds gathered in John Mackintosh Square in the centre of Gibraltar as the news broke, speeches were made and two City Councillors accompanied by the Acting President of the Exchange and Commercial Library went to see the Governor (Sir Clive Liddell) to ask that the evacuees be allowed to land.
May's "make-or-break" speech in Manchester began confidently, bathed in personal apologias and cliches about dreams.
President Barack Obama is to deliver a make-or-break speech to a rare joint session of Congress next week aimed at salvaging his battered health reform plans.
For all his hairshirt talk – expect more in his almost make-or-break speech to the Conservative conference on Wednesday – Cameron often feels like the last major politician of the boom years.
