Sentence examples for for the spoken from inspiring English sources
ITN had established this pre-eminence through adapting news to the medium of television – with personality-style "newscasters" and reports written for the spoken rather than written word – and displaying a lack of deference to the good and the great.
The ancient Greek dramatists developed two distinct kinds of metres: "stichic" forms (i.e., consisting of "stichs," or lines, as metrical units) such as the iambic trimeter for the spoken dialogues; and lyric, or strophic, forms (i.e., consisting of stanzas), of great metrical intricacy, for the singing and chanting of choruses.
Both the twelve-minute-plus version of "Computer Blue" (known as the "Hallway Speech" version, for the spoken section that likens human emotions to rooms) and the eleven-minute-plus "The Dance Electric" (which was given to Prince's childhood friend and early bandmate André Cymone, and became a Top Ten R. & B. hit in 1985) have circulated widely among collectors.
Jim Morrison's posthumous nomination in 1980 for readings of his poetry accompanied by instrumentals by the surviving Doors opened another weird decade for the spoken word category (he lost to John Gielgud reading Shakespeare).
Post hoc analyses showed that for the written group there was a significant decrease in negative emotional consequence ratings over time, t(19) = 2.11, p =.04, whereas for the spoken group there was a non-significant increase in negative consequence ratings, t(20) = 1.60, p =.12 (see Table 1).
Following Standage et al. (2009), the instructions for the VAS mood scales matched the presentation mode of the training (i.e. spoken for the spoken presentation group and written for the written presentation group).
For once, the pundits speak the truth.
The man speaks for the first time.
The authors thank Guillermo Recio for speaking the acoustic stimulus adjectives.
