In the event, Mr. Fry offers a dignified, excellently spoken account of a character who suffers a far-from-comic fate amplified on this occasion by a hint of sweetness behind the bluff facade.
The musical and spoken account of how Triona's husband, Liam (Keith McErlean), lost his voice, wrapped around a rendition of Carrickfergus, is gripping.
The weight of testimony given to the Observer – witness statements, psychologists' reports, timelines, contemporaneous diary extracts, spoken accounts – is stark and overwhelming.
The Guardian could find no other examples of O'Reilly claiming that he himself came under fire in the several other written and spoken accounts he has given of his war-reporting experiences.
He addressed this in his book Txtng: the Gr8 Db8, published three years ago, in which he found that "txt speak" accounted for barely 10 per cent of the contents of the messages exchanged, and noted that abbreviations have always been part of the English language.
"It would be better for companies to have someone who can speak accounting and auditing, speak GAAP and GAAS," he said, referring to generally accepted accounting principles and generally accepted auditing standards.
I wouldn't fully understand what these experiences meant until four years later while working at a predominantly Portuguese speaking accounting firm, I announced that I had been learning Kriolu, and improving my Spanish.
I made a counter-proposal: why didn't he speak his account into my tape recorder?
When I was President of the Senate, he was Senator; and he could never speak on account of the rashness of his feelings.
The presence on stage of Alyokhina, singing live and speaking an account of her prison humiliations, lends a powerful documentary frisson – especially when the lights come up and she takes audience questions in an impromptu press conference conducted in English rather than the supertitled Russian and Belarusian of other sections.
This finding consists of a theorem that expresses the minimum number of conservation laws that are needed, mathematically speaking, to account for any consistent experimental data on particle reactions.
