Sentence examples for expected to recite from inspiring English sources

Subjects like literature, where students were expected to recite the teacher's interpretations of whatever was being read rather than expressing their own views, felt odd to her.

A pupil who has learned the names of all members of the British Commonwealth of Nations would be expected to recite them with particular energy under some sort of incentive (reward or punishment).

I must take issue with the statement by Michael R. Bloomberg, a Republican candidate for mayor of New York City, that when he was growing up in Massachusetts, "nobody was uncomfortable" when Jewish children were expected to recite the Lord's Prayer in public school (news article, July 20).

But this was the birth of the cue-card age, a time when politicians, too, could expect to recite words written entirely by others and still get full credit for the performance.

We were notified that thousands were expected to come to recite tehillim (psalms) -- and, indeed, thousands came.

In the daily freshman grind, Doolies are expected to memorize and recite reams of information to members of the upper classmen.

Over the 60 years since he bought the place from an Arab grocer, using inherited money, an estimated 40,000 travellers have slept among the books, on makeshift beds or the floor, in his "socialist Utopia that masquerades as a bookstore".Mr Whitman expected guests to recite or write (choosing "cannonball" words, preferably), or at least help with chores.

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We had our Chateaubriand in Tennyson and... our Madame Récamier in [her]." Despite the fact that she was constantly occupied with entertaining her illustrious company at what she described as "feasts of intellect" (dinners at Dimbola lasted for four hours, and guests were expected to sing, play, recite poetry, or, at the very least, pontificate), she managed to feel bored.

Pupils will be expected to learn poems by heart and recite them in public.

Brodsky famously infuriated the students in his workshop on the first day of class, when he would announce that each student would be expected to memorize several poems (some lengthy) and recite them aloud.