Sentence examples for formal speech from inspiring English sources

When in doubt, err on the side of formality — it's usually less embarrassing to deliver a formal speech at a casual event than vice versa.

There was no formal speech, just the Grange master's yell that food was ready.

Later, his national security advisor, Susan Rice, echoed the point in a formal speech.

For Lovatt, though, it often wasn't these formal speech lessons that were the most productive.

We took it out of the formal speech; I ad-libbed it in".

In contrast to this easy repartee, his guest gave a rambling formal speech, a page of which blew away.

Even the monarch herself described it in a formal speech as her annus horribilis, a horrible year.

He had his father's bantam frame and scruffy blond hair, his sparky temperament and salty yet formal speech.

She's charmed by the alien quality that others find so creepy his formal speech, his lack of boundaries.

His dark features, his concentration, and his formal speech recall (intentionally, I think) Pacino as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather: Part II".

The settings could not have been more different: an agitated congressional hearing before a polarized Senate committee, and a formal speech in a genteel Southern setting.