Sentence examples for speaking not to from inspiring English sources
It is his voice, that glorious voice of his cello, saying something different, speaking not to her but to some other.
The Woodruffs opened the show by speaking not to those who'd paid (up to twenty-five hundred dollars) for tickets but to the forty-six wounded veterans in dress blues and dress greens who sat down front.
Nearly 50 years ago, the aristocratic English writer Nancy Mitford popularized the terms "U" and "non-U," which delineated upper-class and non-upper-class ways of speaking (not to mention thinking and acting).
In the meantime, the Americans who oversee the development and production of light trucks and luxury cars will continue, relatively speaking, not to worry.
"To meet someone as lovely as you," he says, speaking not to Grace Kelly, the woman he'll eventually fall for, but to her less charming and more bejeweled mother.
Ockham observes, in passing, that pleasure may be said, strictly speaking, not to have an object (since it is not an act), as the act of loving on which it depends does (2001, p. 401 (401).
It's a universal language that speaks not to the head but the heart(beat).
It speaks not just to alcohol policy specialists, but to the wider public health community.
"Speak not these lies to me….
To speak or not to speak.
He argues that jealousy is a "hypersensitive defense system," designed to sound the alarm even when an infidelity has not occurred, since it is more costly -- evolutionarily speaking -- not to suspect a wandering mate than to simply be seething with jealousy day in and day out.
