The Romney speech, thick with dense prose, calls him "the toughest opponent" for President Obama who would "never do anything as president that would embarrass the office, or the country".
The film correctly shows that the accent was so thick, and his speech so hesitant, that Turner could not always be understood when giving lectures.
"I can't imagine living life under a bridge," he told me one day, his eyes flat from sedation, and his speech thick and cotton-mouthed.
Hussein, played by a nonprofessional actor named Hussein Emadeddin, is heavy and slow-moving; his speech is thick and slurred, perhaps as a result of medication he takes to treat his war injuries.
Her speech was thick and slurry.
In her thick South London accent, Speech Debelle (whose real name is Corynne Elliot) draws positive messages out of her troubles: absent parents, school failures, rough neighborhoods, iffy boyfriends.
In the Norfolk Fens – introduced by the photographer Justin Partyka – I met Eric Wortley, a 98-year-old farmer who had worked his family farm throughout his long life, who had been twice to the East Anglian coast, once to Norwich and never to London, and whose speech was thick with Fenland dialect terms.
References to paralyzed tongues, to speech turning "thick and clunky" in the utterance, to a frightening verbal impotence: the images recur throughout the monologues that make up this carefully arranged portrait of forms of ingrained racism, which runs at the Plays and Players Theater here through Sunday.
They note that background noise, thick accents, and quick speech can all trip up the app.
