"It was a performance of 'We know better.' " Other participants said the speech illustrated a problem of Europeans and Americans talking past one another on crucial security issues.
The speech illustrated an unusual quality of the confrontation so far: Mr. Hariri, long seen as a neophyte and sometimes derided for his naïveté, managed to put Hezbollah and its allies in the position of having to take responsibility for any strife that erupts.
Instead, the speeches illustrated the difficulty in cobbling together a coalition when disparate interests like elements of a plan, but not necessarily the whole package.
This speech illustrates the great ability that Barack Obama has to see what policies the United States needs to guide it into the future: clean energy, a competitive job market that brings jobs back home from overseas, economic fairness and a sensible immigration policy, among many others.
Huang's speech illustrates the immigrant and minority experience.
The verdict in the King trial is not an excuse to burn or to steal or to maim or to kill; it is wrong". But even with the strong denunciations of disorder, the Birmingham speech illustrated less a move to the right than a reassertion of the core theme of mutual obligation that represents Clinton's signal departure from traditional liberal and conservative thinking on race.
Yet, as Brody's speech illustrates, they have not always been successful.
"It's standing up for ourselves, our families, and our communities, just as Junot's speech illustrates.
He stated the concept of "clear and present danger" as the only basis for curtailing the right of freedom of speech, illustrating it with the homely example: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic".
Calling for change is surely important, but bogged down in high-minded discourse and vagueness, Obama's speech illustrated the shortcomings of his party.
