Sentence examples for what we speak from inspiring English sources

IN a sense, we are what we speak.

"What we speak in this business is codes and numbers and a shorthand.

What we speak and why is no accident, but rather a product of power struggles for economic, political and cultural supremacy or resistance.

The feminist poet and thinker Audre Lorde recognises this potential when she says: "For those of us who write it is necessary to scrutinise not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of the language by which we speak it".

Our descriptions of these events (what we speak of as their aspects or properties) explain why effects described in certain ways occur.

The phenomenal character of an experience then, is what someone would inquire about by asking, e.g., 'What is it like to experience orgasm?' — and it is what we speak of when we say that we know what that is like, even if we cannot convey this to one who doesn't know.

"We thought only about society, and that was what we spoke about," she said.

It was a completely different situation to what we spoke about a few months ago.

Each time either of us spoke to our father, we marked it in the calendar — what time of day it was, how he sounded, what we spoke about.

"Each time either of us spoke to our father, we marked it on the calendar — what time of day it was, how he sounded, what we spoke about," she wrote.

On Sept. 11 and the days that followed, this was what we spoke about, cellphone calls and voice-mail messages and whether we were there to hear them.