Sentence examples for heard except from inspiring English sources

Wynn said that Obama holds a "weird political philosophy," and makes "speeches about redistribution" using language not heard, "except from pure socialists".

Nothing, he heard, except for a terrible 19th-century plaster cast of some Laocoon group.

The Middle East is a place where yes means maybe, maybe means no, no is never heard (except in Israel), and a plea for a foreign solution to regional problems is a cop-out, not a serious request for action.

The hard "g" in "Long Guyland," is almost never heard except in the speech of descendants of European immigrants who spoke some language other than German, Dutch or Scandinavian.

She was brought up in the kind of household where a girl should be seen and not heard, except that Edith was so odd-looking that the sight of her was not welcome either.

Yet, whenever Mr. Leight's fictitious trumpeter Gene is said to be soloing, recordings of either Lee Morgan, Miles Davis or, most often, Clifford Brown are heard, except for one instance when the audience is presented with a big band identified as Woody Herman's.

There was nothing to hear except empty, echoing voices from other parts of the prison.

Italian journalists, at times, put quotation marks around phrases they wouldn't have been able to hear — except as the proverbial fly on the wall).

Eric Brenner, a male alto, fluted "Oh Thou That Tellest" with a soft, otherworldly tone, but was often hard to hear except in the upper reaches of his voice.

3.26pm: Cormack quotes the seventeenth century Speaker William Lenthall, the one who told King Charles I that he had neither eyes to see, or ears to hear, except as the House directs.

But transition and object itself are never quite distinct from each other, for it is in the nature of sound to be forever in motion: we cannot hear except through time.