Sentence examples for like reciting from inspiring English sources

It is a bit like reciting Shakespeare without knowing the alphabet.

He said Brother Kenneth agreed to his request that his daughter be permitted to abstain from activities like reciting certain Roman Catholic prayers.

COMPANIES that do a lot of business on the telephone are in constant search of the perfect accent one that is mellifluous, friendly and makes you feel like reciting your credit-card number.

Why is it that reading aloud the names of many new lower-calorie beverages seems like reciting the results of scores from some new kind of sponsored sports league: "Trop50, vitaminwater10; G2, Coke Zero"?

Around them are so many litre bottles of vodka, fried chicken cartons and ice buckets of champagne that describing their dressing room is like reciting a Rick Ross lyric.

After all, having a mental image of a cat does not seem anything like reciting a description of a cat to oneself.

And I would agree with @interwar that Wilde, much of Shaw and a good chunk of Beckett belong in this category - perhaps because the staged versions of them so often just seem like recited dialogue anyway...???

And how about the revelation that Jonathan Ogden, the 6-foot-9 former offensive tackle, played in the N.F.L. for 12 seasons and never wore a protective cup? "Nobody in the N.F.L. wears a cup," Mr. Ogden explained to this reporter, who took down his words like recited scripture.

They like to recite Mr. Erdogan's contention that Turkey will be Europe's second biggest economy after Germany by 2050.

They were doing coke and probably weren't used to the ego boost because one of the girls announced she had a poem she'd like to recite to the party.

Not one to keep her crushes secret, she liked to recite to Duchamp at parties, "Marcel, Marcel, I love you like hell," and he became the subject of many of her poems and collages.