Sentence examples for living speech from inspiring English sources

It was, Scott wrote, "living speech; our manual or printed calligraphy is nothing but dead speech".

He presents the irascible and formidable Dr. Johnson dramatically, in living speech, twitch and action.

Donne also departs from earlier lyrics by adapting the syntax and rhythms of living speech to his poetry, as in "I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I/Did, till we lov'd?".

Although he was too cautious to use the vernacular, except in fiction and plays, he did attempt to approximate the living speech of the people, as Huang Zunxian had done in poetry.

The boldness of the literary devices used especially obliquity, irony, and paradox are often reinforced by a dramatic directness of language and by rhythms derived from that of living speech.

On higher levels the language of the Americans is more decorous, but even there it is a genuinely living speech, taking in loan-words with vast hospitality and incessantly manufacturing neologisms of its own.

He lives from speech to speech".

Then I spent a week rehearsing my live speech with that video, so my own timing would be right.

In Atlanta, for instance, the top-rated radio station, WSB, carried only one live speech, Mr. Gore's.

Only at the very end, with the live speech, did it veer into demagoguery.Later, on Mr King's programme, Mr McCain tried to undo Mr Obama's image-making.

Dance and portable items of scenery — chairs, poles, lengths of fabric — and recorded sound and live speech become the mixed media used here.