Sentence examples for witty speech from inspiring English sources

Germany's president Joachim Gauck made a witty speech, chancellor Angela Merkel, Hamburg-born before her family emigrated to communist East Germany, sat in the front row of the stalls.

His condition did not prevent him from delivering a witty speech at the closing dinner; nor did it interfere with the calm, grave affection with which he greeted old friends and co-workers.

Diahann Carroll led off with a witty speech recalling her debut in "House of Flowers" with Mr. Ailey 27 years ago as well as the company's beginnings, and made a point of thanking Philip Morris for sponsoring the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 25th anniversary tour.

In a witty speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Association, again in Manhattan, at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in April 1961 (probably suggested by the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr), the newly inaugurated President John F Kennedy could perhaps be forgiven for getting the significance of this point so wrong.

Well, in fact, a witty speech Abraham Lincoln reprinted in a newspaper as far back as 1862 included a semi colon with a close brackets.

It was the stirring and witty speech he delivered that electrified the nation and helped stampede his nomination.

In olden times, roasted pols responded with witty speeches replete with self-deprecating "in" jokes, often written by Liz Carpenter or Paul Keyes, a Gridiron tradition continued this year as Democrat Bob Strauss showed how political wit could sting without overstepping.

For more than 50 years, it has provided a venue for the main presidential contenders to make generous, witty speeches, not to be vetted and spurned for individual religious beliefs.

Along the way they deliver their message -- that peace and love, not spending, are the true backbone of holiday spirit -- through witty speeches and songs to unsuspecting patrons at assorted problem spots like Wal-Mart, the Mall of America and Disneyland.

But, although lauded by Conservative activists for his witty speeches, Euroscepticism and lack of PR polish, Mr Johnson's political life has not been blemish-free.

They have won more Oscars before, but the Brits stole the show at the Academy Awards, with Sam Mendes's debut film American Beauty sweeping the board and Michael Caine delivering the wittiest speech of of an excruciatingly long night.