Sentence examples for vernacular speech from inspiring English sources

Cain was drawn to the vernacular speech he heard on the streets.

There has also never been a Disney musical so loaded with American vernacular speech.

The least effective of Mr. Lindley's talents are his lyrics, which sift through grab bags of vernacular speech.

Her language contains elements from Aeolic vernacular speech and Aeolic poetic tradition, with traces of epic vocabulary familiar to readers of Homer.

It is almost unfortunate that McDonagh has such a great ear for vernacular speech, because nearly all his characters come out as helplessly, insanely comic.

Still, the colorful vernacular speech and flashy performances can't disguise the impression that the play is a heavily footnoted position paper on a big, big subject (2 40).

So we may indeed see a different change in writing: not kids using inappropriate text-speak in their formal writing, but writing generally in a way that is more vernacular, speech-like.

The book throbs with the vigour of vernacular Scots speech.

Are these exchanges part of the normal give-and-take of a political contest, the exaggerations and embellishments that are the ordinary vernacular of political speech?

Such evidence lends support to the view that by the 6th or 5th century bce Sanskrit (as a medium of communication between members of a particular social stratum) coexisted with Middle Indo-Aryan dialects, and that depending on the circumstances either the higher or the more vernacular forms of speech were used.

The script, a brisk, straightforward treatment by the playwright Adrienne Kennedy of a translation by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, pushes the vernacular cadences of contemporary speech but maintains a classical formality of diction.