Sentence examples for speak blank from inspiring English sources

Shakespeare's kings and noblemen speak blank verse; comic characters, servants, and country bumpkins discourse in prose; clowns, romantic heroines, and supernatural creatures sing songs.

And then I was horrified to discover that she was being given advice on how to speak blank verse from a well-dressed, well-coiffured woman as we ate our starters.

Clemence Dane made the easy – but dramatically fatal – mistake of imagining that the Shakespeares spoke blank verse at home.

While this offers temporary relief from the (for the most part) poorly spoken blank verse, it seems an unnecessarily condescending way to indicate the pan-European nature of the Roman Empire – and to suggest its contemporary resonances on the eve of a referendum.

He is, relatively speaking, a blank canvas.

The best jokes are also critical observations, eg that Shakespeare's Othello "is a man who seems curiously aware that he is speaking Shakespearean blank verse".

Wonderfully played and spoken in blank verse, the play has a great script that would have had more intensity as a one-act; that would have allowed Bartlett's craft to be really heard and felt throughout.

Comment: "Jeno James is a poetry buff, and if he doesn't pull it together and [Panthers quarterback Steve ]Beuerlein keeps getting clocked he's going to be speaking in blank verse".

The privilege of whiteness in America--particularly male, heteronormative whiteness--is the privilege to speak from a blank slate, to not need to address questions of race, gender, sexuality, or class except by choice, to not need to acknowledge wherefrom one speaks.

Days later, at a county fair in southern Arizona, representatives of a local gun club refused point blank to speak to me.

Imitation is obvious when the slate (so to speak) is so substantially blank.