Sentence examples for meant to be spoken from inspiring English sources

McGovern makes it sound as if it were meant to be spoken rather than read.

"You can feel that those lines are meant to be spoken by average citizens," Mr. Sellars observed.

Applying the ancient Greek metre to contemporary vernaculars, especially to words meant to be spoken aloud rather than read privately, posed a particular challenge, forcing translators to add and invent words in order to make the metre work.

She apparently found this reading business quite difficult: 'It was a written text,' she explained, 'not meant to be spoken.' It is impossible not to wonder whether there is a faint echo, in Dominique Aury's consenting to finish and publish the book, of O's progressive self-annihilation.

"Allen's work is poetry that is meant to be spoken," the composer explains.

Though several reviewers referred to them as essays, Gopnik made the distinction between an essay, which is written to be read silently, and a lecture, which is meant to be spoken and keeps some of the rhythm of speech.

Mr Kinnock was not even meant to be speaking and was there only to chair the meeting.

The most fascinating difference between England and America for me as a British visitor lies with the language (ironic, given we're meant to be speaking the same one).

The slow burn of her story has allowed us to see the long reach of moments like the one-night stand with Pete and the child she gave up, and what it means to be speaking as the "voice of moms" at work.

This advice, meant to be ironic, is spoken by a character in Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's latest play: a playwright trying to advise an artistic director as to what British Asian theatre is supposed to look like.

In the original version of Ithkuil, the word Ithkuil literally means "hypothetical representation of a language," which reflects the fact that it was never meant to be casually spoken.