Sentence examples for colourful speech from inspiring English sources

Smith carried on an aggressive campaign as the "Happy Warrior" and presented a picturesque figure with his brown derby hat, cigar, and colourful speech as his trademarks and "The Sidewalks of New York" as his theme song.

A champion of urban America, he carried on an aggressive campaign as the "Happy Warrior" and presented a picturesque figure with his brown derby hat, cigar, and colourful speech as his trademarks and "The Sidewalks of New York" as his theme song.

It uses all parts of speech, and older, colourful words are pressed into service.

But Scott stood up, confronted the great tyrant of American acting, and silenced him with a colourful, violent speech about taking the director's responsibility.

"That's pretty colourful language.

Mr Forbes is not a colourful man; in speech after speech during the primaries, he said exactly the same thing in exactly the same words with exactly the same frozen grin.

I have translated your colourful journalistic words into dry bureaucrat speech, garnished it with some mustard from my own kitchen and … sent it off in the shape of a memorandum to the Secretary of State.

The colourful procedings included speeches, poems, testimonies, information sessions, a marathon, a bicycle race and a carnival.

But it was a much less colourful line in the speech that grabbed the headlines.

Unlike his deadpan delivery on the podium, Konashenkov cuts a more colourful figure when on the road, littering his speech with metaphors and delivering long rants on journalistic ethics and western hypocrisy to correspondents, while puffing on slim cigarettes.

Johnson's speech comes days after a colourful intervention by the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Prof Louise Richardson whose annual salary is £350,000.