Sentence examples for terrible speech from inspiring English sources

He had a terrible speech impediment, and when he was agitated, it was really hard to understand him.

Steve Rosenberg Montclair, N.J., Aug. 29, 2008 • To the Editor: As a former speech teacher, I must say that Barack Obama gave a terrible speech.

She tells us that she learned of her sister's death, in 1985, while waiting in the wings before an out-of-town speaking engagement, and went onstage anyway — although she recalls being so rattled that she "gave a terrible speech and was criticized for it".

At the open-air school they sent me to after three years off school with encephalitis, a boy four years older than me and half my size, with a cleft lip like a third-degree burn and terrible speech defect, used to walk up to me every breaktime and slap me across the face.

She tells us that she learned of her sister's death, in 1985, while waiting in the wings before an out-of-town speaking engagement, and went onstage anyway although she recalls being so rattled that she "gave a terrible speech and was criticized for it".

It was her national debut, the moment when she would deliver her major address to the country (or, as Jezebel called it, her "My Husband Isn't Terrible!" speech).

But before he embarks on his years of 'third-age' freedom, he has to go through the awful ritual of a farewell dinner with hilariously terrible speeches from an old colleague and his glib, young successor.

"She's someone who would not hesitate to whisper something like, 'Can you believe how terrible this speech is?' " Ms. Cheney is fiercely loyal to and protective of her father and devotes great energy to matters that relate — directly or indirectly — to the preservation (or repair) of his legacy.

I was shocked, really and truly shocked and so consequently, as I had nothing prepared, I made a terrible acceptance speech.

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Fair enough, although given the fact that he's terrible at speeches, and the famous town halls have now become Republican-only lovefests, the campaign really should invent some new method of communication.