Assailed in court for dallying with a novice in a nunnery, he says, sotto voce, "She was hardly a novice," a line of no great wit that Ledger turns into elegance by seeming to utter it as a form of self-amusement.
Although Garfield supported Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, the congressman marveled that it was a "strange phenomenon in the world's history, when a second-rate Illinois lawyer is the instrument to utter words which shall form an epoch memorable in all future ages".
Photographs start becoming a mass form, and start being written about as a mass form, in the Weimar Republic, which of course was the most crisis-ridden moment of modernity — and a prelude to utter catastrophe.
His work will still speak the parts of ourselves we are too scared to utter, will still see all seven-odd million of our special forms.
I am ashamed to utter my wishes.
"That gave way to utter panic.
There are Presidents who are mouthpieces, who utter what they have been programmed to utter.
I now begin with grief and shame to utter.
At least he is alive to utter the warning.
His boss, Mr Cicek, has yet to utter any reproof.
