Sentence examples for inept speech from inspiring English sources

A man normally characterized by shrewdness and sensitivity, he delivered an inept speech that began by saying how sad it was that the church had not supported equality for gay people in the past, and then went on to give some bizarre reasons as to why it would continue not supporting equality for them in the future.

Also, BINGO! "British actor makes charmingly inept acceptance speech".

The lovers here are more like deathwatch beetles tap-tap-tapping into the plaster of each other's lives, tragi-comically inept at speech that might heighten the tone or save their day.

This proved to be inept language.

Often viewed as bright but clumsy loners, children with Asperger syndrome have normal speech but appear socially inept and idiosyncratic, often developing an obsessive expertise in a single subject.

And Ray attends a town hall meeting where he gives a long and angry speech about the city's inept politicians, eventually leading him to think about running for office.

Singer said the testimony made him wince when he heard the "incompetent" Congress members deliver speeches and follow them up with inept questions.

In a speech, he said the crisis arose from inept actions and omissions by people in charge of the banking sector and the economy.

Politics was in his blood, his father having been in independent Ireland's first government in 1922; though he himself wandered into it from academia, reluctant to give partisan speeches in the open air or at dance halls, and quite inept at the plotting and manipulation so dazzlingly displayed by his Fianna Fail nemesis, Charles Haughey.

In his victory speech on Tuesday, Mr Kerry accused the president of running "the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy in modern history".

Imagine a skit from, say, the mid-1970s, in which John Belushi and Chevy Chase portray violent, inept knights clunking around in cumbersome armor and talking about looting and plundering in goofy pseudo-chivalric speech.