Sentence examples for speaking in the first from inspiring English sources

She stops speaking in the first person when she talks about difficult subjects.

He has internalised Obama's speech patterns along with his biography, and can now impersonate Obama on the page, speaking in the first person singular, with uncanny plausibility.

Obama, speaking in the first White House press conference since his re-election, acknowledged his first term had made only limited progress on climate change.

Generally speaking, in the first half of the 19th century the English school system was completely under the influence of the disciplinarian monitorial systems of Andrew Bell and Joseph Lancaster.

And, strangely, her critical project was as radically personalizing as was Godard's — but in lieu of actual intimacy and self-revelation, in lieu of speaking in the first person, she conjured a persona.

The first minister, speaking in the first televised Scottish leaders' debate of the election campaign, had tried to brush off questions from the audience and host Bernard Ponsonby about her plans for staging a second referendum.

"We're really into plaids right now," Kirk said, speaking in the first-person plural, a habit from which the pair rarely deviate.

We both laugh awkwardly at the perversity of speaking in the third person.

In a statement issued through her lawyer a couple of months ago, Mrs. Redmond-Mercereau, speaking in the third person, said in part: "Everything was going well.

Actors' faces are coated with white paint and etched with exaggerated, clownlike expressions, and the characters mug and play to the audience while speaking in the third person.

"It is the same Chávez, the same Chávez as always," the president, speaking in the third person as he often does, said late Wednesday.