Sentence examples for speaking partly from inspiring English sources

Gelb later explained to Opera magazine that he had been speaking "partly in jest".

Cooke is speaking partly on behalf of her 1950s subjects: this is what, at some point, they all felt.

"No matter what, no matter who tells you that you don't look good, that is only outside," she said, speaking partly, perhaps, to her younger self.

Obama continues on the theme, sounding almost as if he may be speaking partly to himself: "Don't buy into that cynicism.

When he expresses public angst about the safety of China's holdings of U.S. debt, he is speaking partly to domestic critics who believe Chinese leaders have unwisely tied their country's fate to the U.S. economy.

I'm speaking partly through statistics, and partly through heuristics.

Speaking mostly in Russian, he cursed and, prosecutors say, spoke partly in code.

Mr. Rabiega was willing to speak partly because both his parents are dead.

Yet they did not speak, partly, Mr. Hyman said, because he thought she was "out of my league".

Eventually, they found a support group of mothers in Belgium who were prepared to speak, partly to warn other mothers about what could happen inside perfectly normal and seemingly happy families.

Written, spaced English can be read faster than it is spoken, partly because the visual system has a larger word span than the respiratory system (Chafe, 1988).