Sentence examples for renditions of speeches from inspiring English sources

For example, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (c. 404 bce) contains marvelous renditions of speeches in which the leaders of different states attempt to persuade their listeners to follow a given course of action.

Students warmed up the crowd with renditions of great American speeches and songs from "Guys and Dolls".

Playing Martin Luther King Jr. with a convincing gravity and grace, the British-born Oyelowo impressed both in the movie's showier moments (delivering extraordinary renditions of King's speeches) and in quieter, reflective scenes that illustrate the man's inner struggles and doubt.

This view that disfluencies are 'noise' and present obstacles to perception [5] (p. 275) is probably the reason that radio broadcasters tend to edit out disfluencies from interviews and that the written media tend to omit disfluencies from their renditions of people's speech [6].

Ms. Bellec, dressed in a fur coat, delivers a devastating rendition of a speech printed in a Bosnian Serb newspaper during the war that declared the superiority of Serb dogs over all other dogs.

Henry's actual words after the battle are recorded by Holinshed: "We're going to Disney World!" Kenneth Branagh's rendition of the speech in his 1989 movie is so stirring you want to gallop up to the nearest French embassy and ride a horse through the front door.

A useful illustration of the slipperiness of translated Ibsen comes from comparing two earlier English renditions of a key Solness speech with the words in the Penguin volume.

There were no barn-burning gun-control speeches, or spotlit renditions of "You'll Never Walk Alone," or, come to think of it, much explicitly gay messaging at all.

Edwards offered a passionate rendition of his stump speech, which is not about him or his opponents but about ordinary people in trouble.

Later that night, Mr. Bradley gave a rendition of his standard speech on race relations to the Seattle chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. that failed to even mention his hosts.

"Don't let people tell you that you can't think big," the Democratic contender told the crowd in what proved to be a standard rendition of his stump speech.