If you are alone for long enough, the "habitually silent partner" begins to speak, "without being addressed and without any visible pretext".
It's as if a child were speaking, without any social inhibitions.
Wasn't it the case that in life, we often speak without any "intention"?
Or maybe people think that speaking without any visible phone makes them look cool, rather than deranged.
Sometimes a lawmaker will wander on the floor of the House or Senate and begin speaking without any notes.
She spoke without any expression at all, as though she were reciting something she had memorized with difficulty.
It's nigh impossible to speak without any risk of misinterpretation, especially when mobs are out there looking to be outraged.
To my horror it turned out that I had not brought along my lecture on the novel, which they wanted from me at ten-thirty — but I decided to speak without any notes and it came out very smoothly and well.
And then she spoke, without any complicating details, about how Bill Clinton and Ehud Barak offered a comprehensive deal to Arafat in 2000 and how Ehud Olmert did the same to Mahmoud Abbas.
Up until relatively recently, Isocs were largely ignored by students, student unions and university authorities and left to invite whoever they wanted to speak, without any real scrutiny at all.
