Sentence examples for commanding speech from inspiring English sources

The terrorist attacks scrubbed the meeting that day, and, as it happened, the President himself soon answered Gingrich's concerns with his commanding speech before Congress on September 20th.

Theresa May's commanding speech not only reassured them that out does mean out and free movement will end, no back-sliding, but in the same breath she plundered the best clothes in the opposition's wardrobe.

Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, herself a noted breaker of glass ceilings, received one of the warmest welcomes of the evening for a commanding speech that listed Clinton's foreign affairs experience.

Oprah Winfrey brought the audience to its feet with a commanding speech during the Golden Globes on Sunday.

You can't give a forceful, commanding speech and then walk off the stage and start rebuking an employee or family member over the phone without losing respect.

The speech was hailed by Benn's Labour supporters as one of the most commanding speeches in the House of Commons in a generation.

He raises the rabble in such commanding fashion, with a speech so vapid and yet so inspiring ("I want a world where no nation plots against nation, no neighbour plots against neighbour, where everybody gets a fair chance and a square deal … that's the kind of world I want. Is that the kind of world you want?") Then, of course, there's the chemistry between the leads.

Viola Davis's Best Supporting Actress acceptance speech for her commanding, complex turn in Denzel Washington's August Wilson adaptation Fences was powerful enough to warrant its own award; and Manchester by the Sea writer/director Kenneth Lonergan's speech while accepting the award for Best Original Screenplay was as poignant and heartbreaking as the film it was attached to.

His speech was his most commanding to date.

In February , 2001 Price attended an I.R.A. event to commemorate the death of a hunger striker, and announced, in an impromptu speech, "Gerry Adams was my commanding officer".

One might try to replace (i) with a stronger claim, for example, that the use of an expression is exhausted by its employment in asserting, asking, commanding, and a few of other speech acts not including referring.