Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

As was to be expected Kennedy's latest speech was greeted with enthusiasm by revenge-seeking circles in Bonn, where officials of the West German government praised it ''.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

At the close of Davis' speech the following preamble and resolutions were read by the president, and on the question of their adoption passed unanimously:

Giving most of his musical continuity to the orchestra, he lets the speech fall into place as if by coincidence, but controlling the pace and emphasis of the words.

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

Stevenson's speech, and the spectacular disturbance in the gallery, were both touched off by the death, in Katanga, the day before, of Patrice Lumumba.

Despite a too long sustained declamatory flight, this final speech is convincing, and we see why British audiences apparently were impressed by `` Roots ''.

At his first speech, when he saw a supporter in the crowd being attacked, Lincoln grabbed the assailant by his " neck and the seat of his trousers " and threw him.

" The speech created an evocative image of the danger of disunion caused by the slavery debate, and rallied Republicans across the North.

" Historian Donald described the speech as a " superb political move for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's ( William H. Seward ) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's ( Salmon P. Chase ) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery.

The sounds of speech of all languages of the world can be written by a rather-small universal phonetic-alphabet.

EveR-1's advanced computing processing power enables speech recognition and vocal synthesis, at the same time processing lip synchronization and visual recognition by 90-degree micro-CCD cameras with face recognition technology.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.

The " Former Standard ," used for about 300 years or more in speech in refined language, was the " Schönbrunner Deutsch ", a sociolect spoken by the imperial Habsburg Family and the nobility of Austria-Hungary.

Dysarthria, an impairment with articulation, may also be present and is characterized by " scanning " speech that consists of slower rate, irregular rhythm and variable volume.

** a peculiar pattern of dysarthria ( slurred speech, sometimes characterised by explosive variations in voice intensity despite a regular rhythm ).

A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon.

Her speech was reported by the London Times as follows.

In contrast, the Beat poets, who included such figures as Jack Kerouac ( 1922 – 1969 ), Allen Ginsberg ( 1926 – 1997 ), Gregory Corso ( 1930 – 2001 ), Joanne Kyger ( born 1934 ), Gary Snyder ( born 1930 ), Diane Di Prima ( born 1934 ), Amiri Baraka ( born 1934 ) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti ( born 1919 ), were distinctly raw. Reflecting, sometimes in an extreme form, the more open, relaxed and searching society of the 1950s and 1960s, the Beats pushed the boundaries of the American idiom in the direction of demotic speech perhaps further than any other group.

* January 22 – Howard Dean gives an interview to Diane Sawyer in an attempt to repair his image following the disappointing loss in Iowa, and to control the damage caused by his post-caucus speech, which was widely criticized and ridiculed as the " I have a scream " speech.

Diane Pretty was suffering from motor neurone disease and was paralysed from the neck down, had little decipherable speech and was fed by a tube.

" Similarly, journalist Matt Taibbi has said of Friedman's writing that, " Friedman came up with lines so hilarious you couldn't make them up even if you were trying – and when you tried to actually picture the ' illustrative ' figures of speech he offered to explain himself, what you often ended up with was pure physical comedy of the Buster Keaton / Three Stooges school, with whole nations and peoples slipping and falling on the misplaced banana peels of his literary endeavors.

`` A better position for negotiations is the real point of this speech.

It is said that the eccentric Timothy Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion.

The poem does not distort the syntax of ordinary speech nor draw on exotic sources of diction, yet it is obviously not ordinary speech -- only Hardy would say `` a grin of bitterness swept thereby ; ;

this is a `` fade '' ending, and what you have here is a downtalking style of speech, expressing something less than conventional respect for mother.

Then she catapults into `` everything and everybody '', putting particular violence on `` everybody '', indicating to the linguist that this is a spot to flag -- that is, it is not congruent to the patient's general style of speech up to this point.

He is, of course, a segregationist, but he says he has never made an `` anti-Negro '' speech.

AAC is now used for a wide variety of speech impairments.

Of those, ethanol ( C < sub > 2 </ sub > H < sub > 5 </ sub > OH ) is the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, and in common speech the word alcohol refers specifically to ethanol.

For example, where a person has committed harmful actions of body, speech and mind based on greed, hatred and delusion, rebirth in a lower realm, i. e. an animal, a ghost or a hell realm, is to be expected.

The term " alloy " is sometimes used in everyday speech as a synonym for a particular alloy.

Hearing is one of the most crucial means of survival in the animal world, and speech is one of the most distinctive characteristics of human development and culture.

The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only.

In adjectival use, it is generally understood to mean " of or relating to the United States "; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer " or " the American President gave a speech today ".

In personal denotation, " gringo " means estadounidense, in particular, and anglophones in general, and, linguistically, any speech not Spanish, i. e. " She is speaking gringo, not Spanish ".

It is a humorous political critique, aimed squarely at the then ruling party Partido Revolucionario Institucional ( PRI ) and its paramilitary caciques, at a time when freedom of speech in politics was highly restricted.

On the other hand, they may not preside over Adoration or Benediction, give a speech that is a homily, or read the Gospel during a Mass or serve as instituted acolytes, a ministry which is now reserved for those preparing for ordained service ).