Sentence examples for comic speech from inspiring English sources

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On May 9th Barack Obama ended an otherwise comic speech with an earnest defence of an embattled business.

Kaufman was a master of a number of types of comic speech -- blustery patter, desperate excuse making, unwitting foolishness and the snide aside, to name a few -- and they are all in evidence in this play.

The Wodehouse Society ran mimicry and comic speech contests and organised the annual Lord Ickenham Memorial Practical Joke Week, the bane of all at college who took themselves too seriously.

Marilyn Matarrese has some fun with a comic speech peculiarity as Aunt Gert. Bruce Sabath, who was so elegant in the 2006 Broadway revival of "Company," transforms himself into Eddie, the boys' loving but beleaguered (and anything but elegant) father.

"On the way home Jonathan called again to say the phone calls should probably be taken out, but I reassured him: 'Nah, I think they're pretty solid.' "The show went out that night and there were two complaints, both about me teasing Jonathan for his soft Rs, a delightfully convenient comic speech impediment he sometimes has.

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"In 1998 I was the only humor writer in America not writing Monica jokes," said Mark Katz, the author of "Clinton and Me," an account of his experiences working on Mr. Clinton's comic speeches.

It takes great pains to paint protagonist Melvin Udall Jack Nicholsonn) as something of a 90s Archie Bunker a "politically incorrect" but lovable curmudgeon who says "fudgepacker" and "fag" and "colored," but in ornate, well-paced comic speeches, delivered under the devilish eyebrows of good ol' Jack.

The latter transforms the white wall it encircles into a Pop-comic speech bubble awaiting its "Bang!," but the show's quiet high point is the group of nine drawings made by exposing areas of colored construction paper to sunlight for years at a time.

However, replacing Khan with a cardboard cut-out and comic book speech bubbles would have produced a better central performance and would at least have added a broader comedic flavour.

Underlying such moments of comic plain speech is the charity of a skeptic who in a certain way loves his neighbor — and not under pressure of divine reward or punishment but from something more neighborly, a conviction that we disappointing children of Adam and Eve share a predicament and, along with our awful ways, a few decent, generous moments.

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