Sentence examples for speech phrasing from inspiring English sources

Jimmy Carter was not referred to by name, but the text borrowed a theme from his "malaise" speech, phrasing it with a touch of urbane languor: "Materialism, ultimately, is boring, and consumerism can build a prison of wants".

The initial comments I received regarded the speed of my speech, phrasing of some question and fidgeting.

While you're at it, try Senator John McCain's "There'll always be an Israel" speech (phrase based on a 1939 song) on http://mccain.senate.gov/ aipac02.htm.

The youngsters on the second floor are scanning Kenya's online media for "dangerous speech": phrases likely to foster paranoia, distrust, hatred and violence in the run-up to next week's election.

If one assumes, with the Externalists, that the main goal of a linguistic theory is to develop accurate models of the structural properties of the speech sounds, words, phrases, and other linguistic items, then the clearly privileged information will include corpora (written and oral)—bodies of attested and recorded language use (suitably idealized).

(He once annotated a speech with phrases like "tugs at heartstrings" and "emotional call to arms").

Edna Lisbeth Chavez, a seventeen-year-old youth leader from South Los Angeles, interspersed her speech with phrases in Spanish.

No wonder Hillary Clinton felt the need to include, in her nomination speech, the phrase "I believe in science".

Pepper your speech with phrases like "Am I talking too fast?" and "We understand each other, right?" Say you've already called two other dealers.

Intrigued, Mr. Oates began to discover all sorts of messages encoded backward in songs and speech: clear phrases and sentences often created by a person's hems and haws.

As a figure of speech the phrase the Scottish identity is not so much an oxymoron as a zeugma, since it unites widely disparate elements in a concept which, no matter how irrational, has persisted.