Sentence examples for if it were spoken from inspiring English sources

If it were spoken by a farmer or a shoemaker we would call him mad.

"Nigger" is implied, but Anderson veers away from it at the last minute, aware that if it were spoken it would break through the movie's glib veneer and expose the mean fairy tale at its heart.

Much of his writing is composed as if it were spoken aloud, and the sentences are often long and change course, sometimes midthought.

Finlayson had used the term as a minced oath to stand in for the word "Damn!" Matt Groening felt that it would better suit the timing of animation if it were spoken faster.

The acronym might sound like "Move-em-jason" if it were spoken out loud.

Rarely have I read a book that felt as if it were speaking so directly, so confidentially to me.

The Kirov approaches parts of "Jewels" as if it were speaking a foreign language, and there are some glitches in the partnering in all three sections.

Waugh, it seems, could do any voice — of any nationality, social class, age, profession, temperament — and make it sound as if it were speaking, that very moment, two feet away.

A fresh storm had dropped 10 inches of snow with little moisture giving it an airy, crystallized texture that sprayed out in an arc with each footstep and made a shushing sound, as if it were speaking directly to me.

The diary is written, not dictated, but it sounds as if it is spoken, or as if Gray is speaking to himself, an interior monologue.

As a rule of thumb, say linguists, a minority language will die out if it is spoken by fewer than 70% of the population.