Sentence examples for elegant speech from inspiring English sources

It was not an elegant speech.

At the ceremony, Obama gave a typically elegant speech, imploring the Senate to do its constitutional duty.

When he finally announced his resignation at 4.00pm, declaring in an elegant speech that "the dream shall never die", Salmond immediately eased the pressure on the SNP.

There is also the difficulty of rendering great passions through such faultlessly smooth and elegant speech; inevitably, they cool in the telling.

After delivering an elegant speech for Best Director, she seemed to be in disbelief, and repeated the speech when, a few minutes later, "The Hurt Locker" won Best Picture.

The so-called rules of chivalry, whether they governed combat (real warfare or jousting) or courtesy (elegant speech and good manners), were largely self-conscious borrowings from the fictional world of romance.

He did not offer voters promises of glory or elegant speeches (he is in fact a notoriously awkward public speaker); instead, he ran on a record of good governance and constituent service, earned during his tenure first as mayor of Solo, his hometown, then as governor of Jakarta.

Often pronouncements of an agreement occur far ahead of when anything actually hits the paper and the ink may be very different from the elegant speeches.

Mr. McCain made an elegant concession speech Tuesday night in which he called on his followers not just to honor the vote, but to stand behind Mr. Obama.

Her features are angular and elegant, while her speech is rapid, with the slightest edge of metal.

Obama blunted the ugliness of Wright's YouTube "greatest hits" with his elegant and bold speech on race.