What followed was a serious, intelligent, thoughtful, policy-heavy speech delivered without a smile, joke or applause line.
Then, for more than six minutes, Sanders shared more personal details about himself than he'd revealed during three weeks of policy-heavy speeches in Iowa and South Carolina.
"Our hearts were too heavy for speech".
When she awoke she complained of a heavy tongue, speech difficulty, difficulty swallowing, tinnitus and diffuse muscle cramps with paresthesias.
And though her predicament is sometimes laid out in heavy thematic speeches, it is also very moving.
I think of Al Gore's policy-heavy acceptance speech at the 2000 Dems convention as a masterpiece of substance and attack (and another game-changer in that it dramatically closed the gap with Bush after months of lagging), so I hope Brown's had his people working for weeks on some genuinely fresh, new ideas.
In early March, in another speech heavy with Holocaust references, he asked an audience of pro-Israel activists in Washington: if Iran "walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, then what is it?
Paul has been sly about positioning on this, however; at the Value Voters conference earlier this month, Paul gave a rousingly xenophobic speech heavy on Biblical allusions to Muslims' perfidy… he just declined to say we should bomb them.
From Sean Sullivan, Ed O'Keefe and Katie Zezima: "In a scripted speech heavy on policy specifics, he laid out a plan that he said is built on setting up better schools, lowering crime in inner cities and creating more high-paying jobs.
Mr. Romney was making his final push in Iowa with his wife, Ann, by his side and presenting a trimmed stump speech heavy on family themes and his image as a turnaround artist capable of changing Washington.
Though Mr. Romney mainly offered a version of his standard stump speech — heavy on criticism of the president, sprinkled with a few general glimpses of his own vision for the country — he did mention a recent analysis by The Associated Press that found that half of young college graduates were either jobless or underemployed in positions that do not fully take advantage of their degrees.
