Sentence examples for elocution from inspiring English sources

Thatcher appears, looking like a possessed marionette, her bossy elocution a declaration of intent, as if she means her voice to carry, to be heard generations on.

I hope she is taking elocution lessons so that people in Vermont can understand what the hell she is saying".

Boswell, meanwhile, had to learn how to speak his own native language: he took elocution lessons before leaving Scotland for London in order to acquire "a mode of speaking to which Englishmen do not deny the praise of elegance".

It was my elocution and drama teacher at school who told me I had to audition for drama school.

She took advice on hats and hairstyles from Gordon Reece, her spin-doctor, and elocution lessons to soften her diction.

Asked why he is so often described as like somebody New Zealanders know from their local rugby club, he explains it is because "my vocabulary is so poor; or my elocution is".Surely correctly, Mr Key argues that it is the economy that mostly determines voting behaviour.

That voice could be a raucous smoker's or light, fresh and prim, with the intonation of a girl who had gone to elocution lessons and knew to say "lounge", not "front room".

Many of the new immigrants come from poor rural areas not famed for their elocution; but middle-class second- and third-generation Latinos are not that much better.

Later he was to take elocution lessons, ending up with a classless mid-Atlantic twang.

Her members (who call themselves speech trainers, rather than elocution teachers, a term regarded as very dated) have as much work they want.

IN SHAW'S "Pygmalion", Henry Higgins instructs his elocution pupil, Eliza Doolittle, to stick to two safe subjects on her first outing in polite society: people's health and the weather.