Sentence examples for understand the speech from inspiring English sources

Undismayed by the prospect of confronting the dragon, Siegfried attempts to understand the speech of birds and, when Fafner awakens, asks for instruction in how to feel fear.

Protesters joked that the defining chant of the protests — "The people want the overthrow of the government" — had become "The people want to understand the speech".

Hunger, thirst, fear, heat, cold, loneliness, uncertainty, cruelty, an inability to make himself understood or to understand the speech of others.

A new chant went up in Tahrir Square: "We want to understand the speech!" Both Mubarak and Suleiman once again blamed Egypt's paralysis on foreign powers, attempted foreign diktats and lying foreign satellite channels out to "deface the image of Egypt".

I had known about the bird since childhood, when I learned that King Solomon — who, with his storied ability to understand the speech of animals is the Dr. Doolittle of Judaism — had sought out the hoopoe in order to build the Temple.

In this scenario, the hearing aid user who wears two hearing aids wants to understand the speech produced by an interlocutor.

Not surprisingly, blacks and whites understood the speech differently.

Asked whether he understood the speech to be a direct challenge to Mr. Arafat's rule, Mr. Abdulrahman was evasive.

Mohamed, my translator, had gone home, to attend his brother's engagement party, and so I understood the speech largely through the crowd's reaction to it.

Today he said that his criticism was directed only at some outsiders who "indulge in interference" in Soviet domestic affairs and that those who understood the speech as reactionary "should read it more carefully". "It would have been strange indeed if a speech by the chairman of the K.G.B. were met with unanimous applause and approval," he said with resignation.

The valkyrie considers herself wise, understands the speech of birds, is further described as having a white-throat and sparkling eyes, and she takes no pleasure in men: Wise thought her the valkyrie; were welcome never :men to the bright-eyed one, her who the birds' speech knew well.