Sentence examples for supposed to utter from inspiring English sources

It all serves to underline the inadequacy of the definition of a political gaffe made by the egghead American journalist Michael Kinsley, who argued that a gaffe occurs when a politician voices an obvious truth they were not supposed to utter.

He spent his first few months trying to learn the villagers' names and kinship ties, a standard practice at the time and a particular challenge in this case, given the Yanomami's name taboos: to call someone by his name is often an insult, and the names of the dead aren't supposed to be uttered at all.

Ferrari have not made clear what Alonso is supposed to have uttered to have incurred Di Montezemolo's anger.

But Mr. Richmond remembers another day, too, when his minister came by and said what many had thought but none had uttered: "You're supposed to be dead".

The joke is supposed to be his utter lack of effeteness: he looks like someone who might be trying to find you a can of motor oil.

Who are you to tell us, the rest of the world, that we're not going to deal with Iranians?" It didn't take them long to figure out that the diatribe was supposed to have been uttered by Richard Meddings, now the bank's highly regarded finance director.

Somewhat surprising is that these words are generally supposed to have been uttered by a Christian.

The two Kims are supposed to have agreed not to utter a word about it until August.

Have they come back to inhabit the two young children she is supposed to be educating, forcing them to utter obscenities and to flirt with her in a grossly unchildlike way?

The first place he went to, which was supposed to be the best, caused him to utter a phrase Letterman said no one had before uttered on the show.

They're supposed to be like Tumble, where the utter witlessness on display is immediately punished by a quick cancellation.