Sentence examples for double speeches from inspiring English sources

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(Even Shakespeare cannot quite write double speeches for double men; Hamlet is, on close inspection, more one thing after another than two things at once).

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Watch every man and see whether, hiding hatred in his p63 heart, he speaks with friendly countenance, and his tongue rings with double speech from a dark soul.

Its distinctive decaying wallpaper and Palladian windows made it an atmospheric double for speech therapist Lionel Logue's 1930s treatment rooms in bromantic Oscar frontrunner The King's Speech.

"American Psycho," a sleek, surreal horror-comedy set in the late 1980's, wouldn't have the resonance it does without its serial-killing protagonist's hilarious double-edged speeches about the 80's hitmakers Phil Collins, Whitney Houston and, especially, Huey Lewis and the News.

But if the headline would have read "two young male travelers were killed" people would be expressing their condolences and with their false and hypocritical double standard speech would demand the highest penalty for the murderers.

Botulism is a potentially fatal food poisoning characterized by blurred or double vision, speech and breathing difficulty and progressive paralysis.

While the now standard practice of sur-titles is usually regarded as simply functional (as in the sub-titling of films), I outline below several ways in which a language / body binary is triangulated by the doubling of speech in the performance of translation, that forms the third point proper to an intercultural performance of work renowned for its poetic language.

Later, the net sounds like it is babbling, and later still as though it is speaking English double-talk (speech that is formed of sounds that resemble English words).

When consonantal i appeared intervocalically, it was always doubled in speech.

He loved the terse form and double-edged speech of blues singers ("their sadness is not softened by tears but hardened by laughter," he said), and he packed jazz rhythms into his varied carols of black life.

Five years later came the extravagantly ambitious video opera "The Cave," his first collaboration with Ms. Korot, in which Palestinian Muslims, Israeli Jews and Americans discussed the significance of Abraham on large projection screens as live musicians doubled their "speech melody".

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