A fierce and seemingly inexhaustible improviser, he favors gnarled, guttural utterances that slowly build into shattering crescendos.
She described the phrases she was looking for as "bouncy... utterances that just don't make it all the way across the page".
Grammars constrain what it is possible for us to say, but they also generate utterances that can't simply be read off from them.
They sometimes talk about "expressive conduct," which can seem like another way of saying "useless speech": utterances that do little more than disclose a point of view.
In person, he was easy-going and charming, tall and handsome even in old age, capable of utterances that matched the eloquence of his prose.
It was this political dimension to Kelly's deeds and utterances that made him a folk hero in his lifetime, according to the exhibition's co-curators, Leanne Fitzgibbon and Tansy Curtain.
But we also swim in a sea of words: utterances that would once have flickered into life for a moment are now recorded for ever, parsed and picked over.
Some of the funniest things in South Chicago were also the most deeply true — these sort of over-the-line, rude utterances that were right on the money and undeniable.
This comes with the cost of also rejecting utterances that are correctly decoded and accepting utterances that are incorrectly decoded.
Nor does he deny that such thoughts (and the utterances that express them) successfully refer.
In other terminology, while words name things, it's utterances that have signification.
