Sentence examples for he spoke instead from inspiring English sources
He spoke instead of "incremental steps".
He spoke instead in a recorded video lament.
He spoke instead of an Iranian "regime without a compass," and what he called "a delicate situation" in the country.
He spoke instead in the moralizing tones for which the Germans have become known during the crisis.
He spoke instead about religion or business or the New York City Police Department, whose efforts he still defends wholeheartedly.
He spoke instead about ways he said the arts and science had improved in his four-year tenure.
He speaks instead of "the final solution to the Jewish question".
Impatient with the Kleinian conviction that our innate aggression and envy (initially directed at our mothers, and their breasts) are forces of destruction we must guard against, he speaks instead of "energies that are paradoxical.
He would have expressed his own meaning more perspicuously had he spoken instead of "the minimum content of positive law, the minimum set of principles which, because rationally necessitated —given certain fundamental 'truisms' about human nature and the human predicament for the securing of purposes shared by all survivable human societies, can be called natural law".
Rather than take on these forces directly, he speaks instead of asking the wealthy to "pay their fair share in taxes," of building a consensus, of taking a "balanced approach," of striking a "grand bargain" that would "make sure that middle-class folks aren't bearing the entire burden and sacrifice when it comes to some of these big challenges".
He'd spoken instead of the times he'd seen Sartre on the sidewalks of Paris, of the books he'd read and the films he'd gone to, all with the elated sincerity of someone imparting important news.
