– Obama — At War (@nytimesatwar) May 1 , 20123200 US service members at Bagram hear Obama deliver 9 min off-the-cuff speech.
"I'm not fond of photographing parties where women borrow dresses," he said in his 20-minute, largely off-the-cuff speech.
Last month, he put his preaching into practice, stunning Russians by making an off-the-cuff speech against official abuses during a meeting with Mr. Putin himself.
In an off-the-cuff speech on Sunday night, Davis thanked the producers of How To Get Away With Murder for thinking a "mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old, dark-skinned, African-American woman who looks like me".
LONDON — It started with Prince Charles, in what he described as a "literally off-the-cuff speech," showing off his own Savile Row bespoke suit, talking up the joys of wool and the importance of sheep in the English landscape.
But he then went on to give an off-the-cuff speech in which he pledged to restore Germans' faith in their democratic system, after the corruption scandal that had just shaken the presidency.
The 1982 MacTaggart marked the introduction of corporate movers and shakers as speakers, when Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, rambled his way through an off-the-cuff speech.
In a 15-minute off-the-cuff speech he talked a great deal about health, a red hot Labour issue locally with St George's hospital feeling the financial strain.
A five-minute, off-the-cuff speech by Charlotte Church proved that uncompromising resistance to just about everything the current government wants to do need not sound sour and shrill but could be empathetic and human.
In a two-hour off-the-cuff speech, he returned to familiar themes: depicting the left as unreconstructed, cold-war Communists; magistrates as politically motivated; the euro and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany as harming Italy; and Mr. Monti as a leader beholden to foreign interests who did nothing but raise taxes.
When United States Representative Luis V. Gutierrez harshly criticized Gov. Patrick J. Quinn in an off-the-cuff speech early this week that recalled his cocksure political origins, the outburst said as much about roiling disagreements in the Hispanic political community as it did any substantive appraisal of Mr. Quinn's record in office.
