This makes for a busy few hours on a Saturday or Sunday, but then I have in hand a speech that, as far as the audience is concerned, might have sprung full-blown from my imagination that very morning.
4 But now loud shouts arose, and Nymphidius, either because he was convinced, as some say, that the soldiers were already calling him, or because he was anxious to win over betimes the element that was still unruly and mutinous, came up in a glare of lights, carrying in his hand a speech written out for him by Cingonius Varro; this he had got by heart to deliver to the soldiers.
Turner felt fenced in, as he does when he is handed a speech to read or when he's told that he can't do something.
At another point in Veep, Meyer is handed a speech that has been gone over by the president's staff, who pencilled through huge swaths of it.
Lawrence Levinson, L.B.J.'s deputy counsel, recalled that if Valenti was handed a speech about an arcane subject he would often write an introduction and create a frame that made it more accessible.
"You get handed a speech like that as an actor and you just want to get down on your knees and kiss the writers' feet," Elisabeth Moss, who plays Peggy, told HuffPost Entertainment by phone from Los Angeles.
"It's an honor to meet you, sir," Brad Weigel, a member of the College Republicans, said, shaking Mr. McCain's hand after a speech in Columbus, Ohio.
Mr. Bush warmly shook Mr. Daschle's hand after a speech promoting the administration's farm policies at the gritty Dakota Ethanol plant near here, then patted him on the shoulder as Mr. Daschle grinned.
Presentations touched on talking points scribbled on Sarah Palin's hand during a speech, fliers stapled to telephone poles and Twitter posts about the conference itself that were read from the stage all day (the event was live-streamed), many of which expressed anxieties about listeners' own note-taking abilities.
On the other hand, in a speech absence region, i.e., β n ≈ 0, we have Φ S ≈ 0.
At the Duchess Tavern in Seattle, Sarkisian jumped up on the bar, drink in hand, for a speech to dozens of former players at their annual alumni gathering the night before Washington's spring football game in 2012.
