Sentence examples for speech longer from inspiring English sources

"Whole scenes go by where there is not one speech longer than a line.

She laughed when asked if she would write an induction speech longer than the state of address given last summer by another emotional southpaw, John McEnroe.

Mr. Bush appeared just before noon and delivered a speech longer than the one he gave in Houston on Monday and the one he planned for his inauguration.

Here we have people at the very margins of their own humanity; only those who have eaten recently are able to make any speech longer than a few gasped phrases.

But no one spent as much time on the stage on Saturday as Mrs. Clinton, who introduced all the candidates, after giving her own 17-minute speech, longer that that of any candidate.

Grant, in his observations of the leading members of the House of Lords, indicated that the Duke was not noted for his oratory (he delivered no speech longer than five minutes) and had a voice that was difficult to understand, though, "his manner is most mild and conciliatory".

The second disc starts with a long speech -- longer than any of the songs -- about the difficulty of forming honest relationships and the importance of battling misperceptions.

When is speech no longer just speech?

In fact, my Hall of Fame acceptance speech lasted longer than my N.B.A. career.

We did get to hear the "stump speech," a longer version of which he gave to the Convention.

One, for example, concluded that "public speech no longer attends the processes of governance — it is governance," but offered no rigorous evidence.