Sentence examples for writes of speaking from inspiring English sources

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"He had this odd habit," Doidge writes, "of speaking about the deepest questions to whoever was at this table — most of them new acquaintances — as though he were just making small talk".

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There are significant difficulties involved in identifying the written equivalent of spoken Information structure in English, largely because intonation is not realised in written English.

I truly regret offending anyone" -- because it was written instead of spoken, the impact was greatly diminished.

Hadley writes: "And speaking of wealthy, scary people, who should arrive but Weinstein.

"She wrote that his way of speaking was 'ornamental and Olympian,' for example," he said.

He propagated a clear style of writing and speaking about philosophical matters, insisted upon justification of philosophical theses and sharply distinguished philosophy as a science from world-views.

"I could have told you a story with a happy ending," DeVita writes, speaking of what he is sure was his friend's premature death.

He writes, speaking of imagination, "When sensible things are not present, it [imagination] conforms itself to things in a confused way and without discriminating one condition from another.

Periphrasis, also called circumlocution, the use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression; a roundabout or indirect manner of writing or speaking.

This applies to all language, all dialects – not one particular way of speaking and writing.

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