Of course, these institutions prefer someone with experience, so find as many opportunities to speak, deliver workshops or panels, or mentor as possible.
I guess there's no perfect way to do this, which makes you wonder whether these kind of tributes are best without lengthy speeches – maybe clips of Bowie speaking, delivering his own words, might have been more powerful.
In contrast, "The Affair" is full of airless therapy-speak, delivered in the oracular tone that people adopt at poetry readings.
He was replaced on the floor by the Senate chaplain, who, noting that the chamber had "reverberated with a marathon of speaking," delivered a prayer asking God to help the members "to clearly discern right from wrong".
Abigail didn't just speak; she delivered lines.
Ridley cannot speak, but delivers his stand-up show thanks to an iPad app.
As she spoke, Bowe delivered a right jab to his trainer's head that banged him into the ropes and to the ground.
(I remember shrinking from "I'm Nobody! Who are you?/Are you -- Nobody -- too?" when a soloist in my school's speaking choir delivered it vehemently).
The Greek people, stirred in part by the finance minister's fiery speeches, had spoken and delivered a slap in the face for the European authorities.
Words, first spoken, then delivered by script, print and now digital media, remain the principal means by which humans may contemplate, negotiate, mediate, adjudicate and agitate for a different world without constant need of violence.
