Sentence examples for sweet speech from inspiring English sources

Even as we strain to hear this remarkable woman's sweet speech, the thrumming in our ears grows louder.

After announcing that they're here "to represent the heavier side of music, shall we say", James Hetfield makes a sweet speech regarding how bands of their ilk are never allowed to perform at festivals such as Glastonbury.

It's a legacy that can be traced back to her infancy, when Goodison's mother dipped her finger in sugar and rubbed it under her daughter's tongue, ensuring her the gift of sweet speech.

(More wine?) In a short and sweet speech, the borough president, Marty Markowitz, celebrated Brooklyn for its commitment to literature ("Even The New Yorker called Brooklyn the most literary borough") and offered up the evening's most quotable line: "Here's to Booklyn, U.S.A".

He helped publish a dictionary of Patuá expressions, and for the past 18 years he has staged an annual play that revives what local people call "doci papiaçam," or sweet speech, a stew of archaic Portuguese, Malay and Singhalese spiced with English, Dutch and Japanese, and more recently, a large helping of Cantonese.

Harry also gave a sweet speech in honor of his "Pa".

"Their sweet speeches to us turned out to be useless," Mr. Kanna said.

Day after day she made him many sweet speeches, until the poor old gentleman was very near falling in love with her.

It had to irritate Tolstoy immensely that Anton's actors sat in their own spiritual excrement and made sweet speeches and moaned a little and sighed and groaned and never got out of any situation.

I had to stop myself singing along to every song and saved myself for the audience singalong at the curtain, when Benny and Björn made sweet speeches of thanks to casts present and previous.

I remember him delivering a sweet, nostalgic speech, dwelling on the hopes and excitements of the postwar period.