Sentence examples for speak appropriately from inspiring English sources

They speak appropriately and listen to other people, engaging in conversation in socially appropriate ways.

Having become the first African-American and only the eighth woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison is expected to speak appropriately on behalf of two aggrieved groups, and too often, alas, she does.

Unlike the petty person (xiaoren; literally, "little person"), who cannot transcend personal concerns and prejudices and acts only for his own gain, the junzi is cultured (wen) and knows how to act and speak appropriately in any situation; he is thus an exemplar whose virtuous influence promotes a flourishing human community (see de).

Dr. Cope's report said Ali had come to the center first on Oct. 6 "complaining of lethargy, weakness and shortness of breath". The report, which covered four visits to the center, said: "The patient tended to talk softly and to almost mumble his speech at times; but when questioned about this, he was able to speak appropriately without any evidence of a speech disorder.

'Facility' is defined as 'the ability to understand the spoken language on everyday topics and to speak appropriately in response at native-like conversational pace in an intelligible form of the language' (Bernstein et al. [2010], p. 358).

She taught me to properly use silverware at dinner parties, cross my legs while seated, and speak appropriately to my elders.

Brown — speaking, appropriately, on Father's Day — said it was a dream that would have died without his parents.

To insure the campaign spoke appropriately to its intended target, "we put an all-male team on the project," Mr. Mikes said, but then "watched them struggle and fumble" with the assignment.

The mayor spoke, appropriately enough, at the American Museum of Natural History, in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, under an imposing model of a 94-foot blue whale suspended from the ceiling— the largest model of a blue whale in existence.

When he moves to a hut in the wilderness (a self-imposed exile that only feels desperate if you are unaware – as presumably Zoolander 2's scriptwriters are – of how hot log cabins are right now) he has a grey-streaked Ming the Merciless goatee that speaks, appropriately, of a complete lack of aesthetic vigilance.

In remarks to the White House press corps on Thursday, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly suggested that Trump spoke appropriately.