Sentence examples for language breaks from inspiring English sources

Although he tries to distance himself from his former love — whom he never names — by using any number of verbal tricks, all addressed to the audience, Thom's language breaks down as he recalls the essentially nonverbal memory of flesh on flesh.

On the other hand, cued speech, which advocates want to be a supplement to sign language, breaks words into syllables and conveys them with hand signals and lip reading, so that a deaf person can link visual signs and sounds to the language as it is written and spoken.

After all, when moral language breaks down, the values on which it rests collapse as well.

Part of the issue is that language breaks down when it comes to the spirit.

Clinton's language breaks two cardinal rules for politicians, in fact, which exist because the risk is so plain to see.

Even learning how to say "hello" or take a simple food order in sign language breaks down a small barrier and can brighten another person's day.

This is guilt made flesh, its language broken down into fragments of raw and almost unspeakable emotion.

In "Phonics" and "Lick Fat Boys," both from 1980, he plays games with language: breaking words into phonemes and rearranging them, physically with letters on a wall and orally by recitation.

A lot of the women here this evening are Romanian and chat to each other in their own language, breaking into English only when they need help from the club's "house mother", a friendly woman from Northern Ireland who does their makeup.

These women have achieved great things in the public eye in the teeth of stereotyping and disadvantage; stereotyping that led the former prime minister David Cameron to claim that Muslim women needed to learn English, despite the fact that so many are such active members of the societies in which they live, whether their English is a first or third language, broken or fluent.

Standing at the bleeding edge, gazing into the red-rimmed, bottomless abyss of disruption, the normal rules of language break down and a Dadaist imperative asserts fresh claims of absurdist relevance.