Sentence examples for folk speech from inspiring English sources

Fish are a staple of American discourse in folklore and folk speech, appearing in myriad forms but with some important linking commonalities.

The voice Walker established for Celie is insightful and limited, unsentimental and direct, and, controversially when it was published, is "folk speech".

During the 20th century, folklore and folk speech had a great influence on elite literature on writers as different as Franz Kafka and Carl Sandburg, Selma Lagerlöf and Kawabata Yasunari, Martin Buber and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

"Negro dialect", now called "folk speech": we might not have been ready for it before – thought it ignorant or demeaning, some of us – but we're ready for it now.

Writers with a great ear, like Chandler and Runyon, give us their words, but they also give us a license to listen — a license to listen to street speech and folk speech with a mind newly alive to the poetry implicit in it.

People said he made clowns of the peasants — there are still writers who complain that his dialogue wasn't always true to real Irish folk speech, a criticism that manages to be correct while driving past his achievement, which was to go beneath them, into something even older and deeper, the Greeks.

She juxtaposes ancient, Byzantine, and modern Greek texts, literary and folk culture, speech and ritual.

Based on the little experience I've had with the very good Deadwood, it's still rough television were talking sickly quick-tempered folks with speech patterns that swerve from poetic to modern day cuss bombs in a single sentence.

In Bonn, 400,000 people sprawled across a grassy mall to listen to folk music and speeches by Social Democratic Party Chairman Willy Brandt, Nobel Prize-winning author Heinrich Boell and Greens Party peace activist Petra Kelly.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy chats folks before the speech.

Can any of these folks spell...free speech?