Sentence examples for simple utterance from inspiring English sources

But there is no doubt about it: the simple utterance of words can do psychological harm.

With a bit of luck you might even hear, over the carols, a simple utterance: "Hi.

And that simple utterance -- spoken with such resoundingly offhand snobbery -- goes a long way toward explaining why New York has always been, and will always remain, a brutal party town.

And when Regan asks why she needs even one follower, Jackson makes "O reason not the need" less an earth-rending cry than a simple utterance of despair, delivered head in hands, at human incomprehension.

My attorney relayed the sobering news that, in a rare First Amendment exception, the simple utterance of a threat against a major presidential candidate can get you five years in prison and a fine -- and what I reportedly said qualified.

On the second, Q is so extensive or so resistant to intelligible compact expression for other reasons that the benefits to speaker and listener alike of a terse and simple utterance outweigh the inferential costs to the listener involved in extracting a large message from a small package.

Etzioni singles out Viv's ability to go beyond simple utterances and engage in a sophisticated two-way dialogue as a particularly hard AI problem.

Discussing the problem of the subject matter (skopós) of the Categories, Philoponus says -- roughly in agreement with Iamblichus -- that the Categories are about simple utterances (phônaí) signifying simple things (prágmata) by means of simple concepts (noêmata; In Cat. 10).

While the descriptions of the settings (often accompanied by pictures) could be quite elaborate, much as in adventure fiction, the input options available to the player were, and have largely remained, restricted to simple utterances of the sort that can be anticipated or collected in pre-release testing by the game programmers, and for which responses can be manually prepared.

Might the sheer mass of allusions uncovered in Eliot's simplest utterance be sand-bags piled against the hostile claims of canonical rivals?

Chomsky and other experts use the term to describe how we construct even the simplest utterances.