By the speech's end, he was emoting into the microphone like a preacher.
"This is not a revolution," Mr. Assad said to an audience that chanted his name at the speech's end.
For of the three elements in speech-making--speaker, subject, and person addressed--it is the last one, the hearer, that determines the speech's end and object.
"Mr. President, in a ticking time-bomb scenario, with American lives at stake," she said, "are you really unwilling to subject a terrorist to enhanced interrogation to get information that would prevent an attack?" By speech's end, the crowd was standing, and the former vice president's daughter was being mobbed for photos and hounded to run for office.
Invited to make a farewell address on July 22, he received a 35-minute ovation when he took the podium and 45-minute one at the speech's end.
UPDATE: 7 54 p.m. ET --An aide to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's points out that the governor at times uses the word "conclusion" to signal a speech's end to his audience.
3 30 p.m.: This article was updated with Pelosi's speech ending. 2 p.m.: This article was updated with details about the deal and reaction.
As the speech is ending, Ziegler's deputy, played by Rob Lowe, enters and caps the scene with one of Sorkin's characteristic over-the-top verbal flourishes: "Ahhh, temptation I have seen thee and thy name is woman".
— ben schwartz (@benschwartzy) Aug. 29, 2012 If Chris Christie's speech ends with him doing Chris Farley's Chippendale dance, I'll vote for Romney.
As Gingrich's speech ended, Connie Mack politely excused himself.
