Sentence examples for respectable speech from inspiring English sources

Hilary's voice, too, is perfect, full of the menacing nursery verbs of respectable speech.

He can make a respectable speech on a Normandy beach, but he's probably the first U.S. president for whom the Allied landing is emotionally remote.

Still, the speech was respectable and serious.

John Hay, one of Lincoln's private secretaries, described Vallandigham as a "man of respectable talents" who "seldom makes a speech without attracting the entire attention of the House".

Royall dismissed the carnivalesque proceedings as an inquisition; that it had less to do with her "respectable" behavior than her journalistic right to free speech.

Quite respectable Koreans have been upset by Mr Bush's speech.

Bill Morris, the (black) president of the Trade Union Congress, compared Mr Hague's remarks to Enoch Powell's 1968 "rivers of blood" speech against immigration, with its talk of "respectable" constituents being persecuted by "wide-grinning piccaninnies".This comparison is preposterous.

The apropos brown ale's respectable 7.3% ABV and rich maltiness encourages one to savor the expository speeches the characters deliver in favor of traditional dialogue, as well as the sundry ludicrous plot contrivances.

In his speech yesterday, Pratchett tilted at JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which is considered a more respectable work of fantasy than his.

Yet Tony Blair, who has made a habit of it, did it again on January 12th, delivering a speech in praise of reform and European unity to members of France's centre-right ruling party—all in respectable French.

His flat Birmingham accent is perfect; his prissy lower-middle-class speech dotted with dated slang is dead on; his full name - Joseph Ambrose Hilditch - has the ring of the respectable English murderer.