Sentence examples for the speaker thought from inspiring English sources

But Zhangsan broke a leg shortly after starting the game, which the speaker thought was responsible for Zhangsan's eventual loss in the game.

The speaker thought the Brit was talking too fast, and the simultaneous interpreters therefore could not keep up.

But he said that the speaker "thinks that it deserves serious consideration".

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggests that the language we use reflects how the speaker thinks of the world, and this could be a prime example of that.

"In the light and spirit (of Holocaust Memorial Day) doesn't the Speaker think it was inappropriate for the Prime Minister to use language referring to the refugee crisis in Europe to talk about a 'bunch of migrants'?" she asked.

"It's very clear the speaker thinks of this as a long ideological struggle, a defining battle," said Ilan I. Berman, a vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, whom Mr. Gingrich recently named one of 11 national security advisers.

A good example is the poem "Amphibiology" in which seals by the shore are initially seen as "Like old men frolicking in sacks" but then make the speaker think of old newsreel films of "Stuffed statesmen and wind-up warriors".

On the first alternative, the existence of moral facts renders the discourse fact-stating, whether the speaker thinks so or not, and the non-existence renders it evaluative, again whether the speaker thinks so or not.

(This idea, too, goes back to Kripke who, at points, speaks of what I should do, if my use of the term is to be "in accordance with how it was meant" (1982: 30, 37).) Possible misuses are said to include both performance errors (such as slips of the tongue) and so-called meaning errors (as when the speaker thinks 'arcane' means ancient) (Millar 2004: 163).

D what the speaker thinks of others.

Does the speaker think that merely stating a theory is proving it?