Mr. Brodie, who continued acting, was known locally for reciting risqué limericks and breeding daffodils, as his father had.
He possessed a legendary voice for reciting Sikh hymns and every woman, I'm sure, was trying to get him married to her sister.
Eddie C. Lovelace, a Kentucky judge still on the bench into his late 70s, had a penchant for reciting Shakespeare from memory and telling funny stories in his big, booming voice.
For example, she posted a scoring guide for poetry presentations; each pupil received points for memorizing a poem, for maintaining eye contact with the class, and for reciting audibly.
Mr. Schoenfeld attended local schools — including P.S. 87 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where he once won an oratory contest for reciting the Gettysburg Address — and DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.
Swift soon replied: "Thanks for reciting my lyrics, @IanMcKellen and @SirPatStew!
He doesn't need to distort his characters to reacquaint the audience with their achievements, either: a longtime observer of actors' behavior, he makes witty use of their penchant for reciting litanies of their successes, and the injustices visited upon them, on any and all occasions.
In his speech, Xi praised the schoolchildren's mastery of Mandarin, and Patterson for reciting the poem "better than I ever could".
More importantly, in the years when Blair was making the most of the joys of being prime minister, Erdoan was counting the days in prison, where he had been thrown under pressure from the state and army, for reciting an Islamist poem.
Joe Biden is known for reciting poetry on the senate floor and quoting Irish poets on the campaign trail (a nod to his Irish roots).
