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  • Ishmael would speak for them at midcentury in Moby Dick, as he dismissed learned commentary on cetology, called on Jonah and seamen with callused hands for support and declared the whale a spouting fish with a horizontal tail. Thar She Blows! 19th-Century Court Case Harpoons a Whale of a Story
  • While President Obama swore fealty to free trade, he also called for "balanced growth," which is diplo-speak for U.S. efforts to get China to spur domestic consumption and rely less on exports. Will Marshall: Does America Have a China Policy?
  • Some one, somewhere, must speak for golf - and maybe slap a few wrists.
  • There are a number of cases which are referred to here and most of these speak for themselves.
  • Does this warthog actually have the cajones to dare speak for God??? Think Progress » Limbaugh: Volcanic eruption in Iceland is God’s reaction to health care’s passage.
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  • If you're a heavy user, these numbers should speak for themselves but you'll have to keep your landline to receive incoming calls.
  • In so far as she possibly can, she lets this great dull store of words speak for themselves, without addition to their number.
  • We don't see him behind the wheel of the slick electric vehicle, but vehicle dynamicist Tesla-speak for test driver Graham Sutherland sings the car's praises in the Wired Top Stories
  • The baptism begins at the narthex of the church, where the godparents speak for the child, renouncing Satan, blowing three times in the air, and spitting three times on the floor.
  • Unlike the Tories who are a regional party of the English shires, we can truly say we speak for the wider community in Britain.
  • We cannot be reduced to chasing people around who claim to speak for the party.
  • I was warned that senators - as is politicians' wont everywhere - like to speak for most of their allotted time, leaving only a small gap for an answer.
  • They didn't speak for some time, until Faimon closed the book, and put it into his satchel.
  • Sometimes ‘nonlinear thinking’ is just newspeak for mental incoherence.
  • But as for being a disgrace to all that is feminie-- you don't speak for me, you don't think for me, and the only opinion of myself that matters is MINE. It is Time to Eliminate Status of Women
  • Sometimes, stark images can speak for themselves and even narrate untold stories.
  • Even more infuriating are the self-righteous hypocrites who claim to speak for a superior moral majority.
  • I have declined to speak for certain companies, and have disinvited companies to the office.
  • An informal beginning to the Afghan "rollout" -- D. C.-speak for a coordinated but segmented sales job of a new initiative to Congress, the media and diplomats of other nations -- will come in Brussels tomorrow, when Holbrooke will brief NATO allies privately on the strategic review ordered by Obama. The Torch
  • It is a tragedy for those who take the brunt and we in the Labour party will always speak for them. Times, Sunday Times
  • So the Wazir repaired to the door of the kitchen and sat there a little while, till up came the black and would have entered the kitchen; but Shimas caught hold of him and said to him, “Dear my son, I would fain stand in presence of the King and speak with him of somewhat especially concerneth him; so prithee, of thy kindness, when he hath ended his undurn-meal and his temper is at its best, speak for me and get me leave to approach him, so I may bespeak him of that which shall suit him.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • There was a time that, when a French president spoke - as long as the Germans were squared (and they usually were by the Franco-German axis) - he could presume to speak for the EU.
  • Where he once used to lecture his audience, he is now more content to let the music speak for itself. Times, Sunday Times
  • In order for any such dispute to conclude, there has got to be a resolution of a contest between those who speak for the neatly ideal and those who speak for the messily real.
  • This contrasts with the common image of scientists being objective and impartial analysts who allow the empirical facts to speak for themselves.
  • Not all people are gallant enough to speak for justice, and most of them remain silent on injustice. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • A widely adopted mode is to undertake and present research in which women speak for themselves about women's realms. Critical Social Research
  • I can't speak for other Londoners, but May Day Riots are rapidly joining the London Marathon as events that I never witness as such, yet whose aftermath always somehow impinges, usually when I'm off in search of debauch.
  • That characterization epitomizes the arrogance and condescension of anyone who would presume to understand and speak for all of us.
  • Zarchi himself says he dislikes the new title drummed up by marketers, but with the film in the hands of the distributors and no one involved in its making having a chance to speak for the film, its real purpose and origin was unknown until recently, when Zarchi could finally tell his side of the story on the DVD. Is I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE Really a Misunderstood Feminist Film? | Obsessed With Film
  • He continued in a kind of cataleptic stupor, so that he would remain for hours in any posture he was placed, either in his chair, or in bed; and did not attempt to speak for about a fortnight; and then gradually recovered. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • He turned on chief executives with alarming regularity and would often speak for just a few minutes before heading for the door, leaving embarrassed party officials to try to explain away his ungracious behaviour.
  • I can't speak for Ann, but I don't think the concern for me is about what people may *do* but what they may *think*. Do you worry about what black people will think if Barack Obama loses?
  • It also implies a critique of any one party, sect or voice that would claim to speak for all or the many.
  • Disgracing the predominantly southern, rural, Christian sport of angling, which is school-speak for fishing, by the way. CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2006
  • I speak for all Americans when I say bomb the bejesus out of easten Afganistan and Western Pakistan buckwheat CNN Poll: Americans divided over troop buildup in Afghanistan
  • In fact by claiming to speak for the entire Muslim Community, the CIC is lumping Muslims together in much the same way as it accuses MacLeans and Mark Steyn of doing. Mark Steyn Debates Complainants : Law is Cool
  • I can't speak for other Londoners, but May Day Riots are rapidly joining the London Marathon as events that I never witness as such, yet whose aftermath always somehow impinges, usually when I'm off in search of debauch.
  • The number 1337 being nerdspeak for "leet", or elite, I wonder if it was on purpose? AVP Redemption on Vimeo
  • both those for and against are fervently convinced they speak for the great majority of the people
  • Those of us who presume to speak for the lives of individual animals need to observe our subjects very carefully indeed.
  • The things to be balanced I guess are, the Primates are in some sense people well equipped to speak for the wholeness of their particular region or local church, at the same time there's a sense that all of our Anglican communities are also synodical bodies in which the senior bishop is not the only voice. Final press conference at the Lambeth Conference
  • I could not even speak for joy and excitement, and then - how ill-natured of them!
  • II. i.104 (286,8) [He, who shall speak for her, is far off guilty, But that he speaks] [T: far of] It is strange that Mr. Theobald could not find out that _far_ off _guilty_, signifies, _guilty in a remote degree_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
  • She turned to face the ranks behind her and called words she had been waiting to speak for a very long time.
  • Twenty20 will move from adolescence to adulthood when it realises that the cricket can speak for itself. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of their number, an old Macedonian cavalryman named Callines, came forward to speak for the men. Alexander the Great
  • I can't speak for others, but like every programme I've ever seen about naturism, it makes me question why I ever found the human body attractive.
  • Nebbou wisely lets the story and performances speak for themselves, confining his personal flourishes mainly to an extravagant "orientalist" ball that Dumas stages at his chateau. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • The nearest thing to a suggestion that I have come (and I am clearly in no position to speak for anyone other than myself) is that there are better and more effective ways of not only defending yourself etc., but going on the offensive, that do not involve wallowing in the steamiest excrement offered up by the very people you would presume to defend yourself against. Think Progress » GOP plans on reintroducing legislation to ban and deport immigrants from ‘terrorist’ countries.
  • Johnson invoked race in his ads, claiming to speak for African Americans broadly.
  • They called for voices that can speak for the diverse identities that make up the mosaic of humanity.
  • And the abbreviation "DNF" --runner-speak for "did not finish"-- seemed increasingly apt year after year. Duke Nukem Forever ships May 3
  • Bachmann's faith-based organization was over the top," said a campaign staffer who said he was not authorized to speak for the campaign and so could not give his name he donned a shirt embroidered with the phrase, "Jesus is Lord Over America". NPR Topics: News
  • You just decide to do what you are going to do and let that speak for itself. Times, Sunday Times
  • And by the end of the week Bush was telling an aide to instruct "your clackers" (Bushspeak for press staff) that if he heard any chatter from White House aides about Rumsfeld's getting fired, "they'll have to answer to me. No Good Defense
  • I don't want to speak for others but I have noticed that there is a prevailing belief in the Upper Midwest that bass are not good eating and that they taste "muddy or mucky". Classic F&S Vintage Fishing Ads
  • The exploitation claim is yet another example of a mentality that finds exploitation everywhere even as it infantilizes the folks it purports to speak for.
  • We can comment on the malignant horde of media hounds claiming to speak for Michael on this and many other issues.
  • ‘The numbers speak for themselves,’ Berwin says bullishly.
  • This book works because it brings together some of the best writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and lets them speak for themselves.
  • ADAM speak for yourself, stop the blackmail you are dead wrong looks like mcsain should hop abord the plane with obama he is following him state to state and town to town to campaign what is wrog mcsain? trying to steal votes McCain appeals to independents with environment pitch
  • Simple, lo-fi production allows it to speak for itself. The Sun
  • If you see anybody fitting this description riding a bicycle shod "shod" is bicycle review speak for "palping" with regard to wheels with white tires, call the authorities immediately. Blows to the Hed: The Price is Blah
  • I talked to the superintendent about the incident, but he didn't indicate to me exactly what his opinion was, so I can't speak for him.
  • Aesthetics is spa-speak for cosmetic treatments from botox to noninvasive face lifts, dermabrasion and lipolysis (a new, less invasive form of liposuction). Asia's Top Spas
  • I have no clear visitor profile, geekspeak for "I have no idea why anyone would waste its time out here".
  • I myself agree with you, but I can't speak for my boss.
  • Does he speak for those invested in the long-standing ties of clientage and patronage between the Saudi and Bush royal families and their interlocking financial interests? Marshall Grossman: Plan For Victory
  • Have you got anyone to speak for you?
  • They were ordered not to move or speak for an hour while the riot squad searched and often ransacked their rooms.
  • Her tone is more silver than gold, but she knows how to subtly imbue a phrase with feeling, when to color the violin sound to reflect changes in the character of a piece, and when to simply let the music speak for itself. Busy Violinist Seeks Balance
  • Economic autarchy ("autarchy" is just philosopher-speak for "self-sufficiency") has a long pedigree in Thomistic (the most prominent strain of Catholic) philosophy. Archive 2009-05-01
  • The revelation led to a bitter feud and the pair did not speak for more than a year.
  • I guess that the great typological difference in the use of labials can speak for the great genetic difference in AmerIndian languages.
  • A lot of people have gotten to the step of being emotionally invested in umbrage and are displacing the hostility of feeling like one is being deliberately ignored by those in power against the democratic party and even if the leaders wanted to throw some red meat to placate them and tell them they are heard, Presidents Lieberman and Nelson will take the opportunity to essentially speak for the Democratic Party and publicly try and ruin it for the sake of pissing on said base and thus retaining the love of the current media environment. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Beatings will continue until morale improves
  • You've heard "more than one" along with myself say such and that makes a "we" if not an all-inclusive "we" which I never mean to infer, but I'll try to be more careful to make the obvious more obvious that I do not speak for everyone. Page 2
  • There was no way that he should be allowed to speak for this country because he has no couth, no brains and doesn't know the meaning of the word diplomacy.
  • I can't speak for all shadchanim, but I personally don't take any money," Levy says. Orthodox Matchmaker: A Love Story in Midwood
  • DONALD RUMSFELD, OUTGOING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: I certainly can't speak for the new incoming secretary of defense. CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006
  • The Board of Trustees thinks it's entitled to speak for the whole community when it defends him.
  • Rather, they let their two drummers/two bassists/sax/guitar/vocals/etc. lineup speak for itself as one, which allows this guy and his extremely unpleasant, wavering caterwaul to hide behind relative anonymity.
  • He didn't speak for a while, and when he did, his voice was somewhat hoarse.
  • “I think I speak for all of us, Nepos, when I tell you that the Senate would not be happy with a complete withdrawal.” CONSPIRATA
  • I can't speak for anyone else, but for me my bin is cyclically in various degrees of emptiness and fullness: perhaps balancing out to both the proverbial half empty of the pessimist and the half full of the optimist.
  • Those who vocalised their prejudices so abhorrently midweek did not speak for an entire country.
  • If their ideas were good, their actions would speak for themselves and people would reelect them. The Volokh Conspiracy » Balkin on the “Slaughter Solution”
  • The moderator was flagging me down because he wanted me to speak for a couple of minutes.
  • Hopefully researchers will let the data speak for itself without preordaining an outcome which the data must be made to conform to. The Volokh Conspiracy » Data Sharing and Climate Change Research
  • I hope you can see now that I speak for concern for you, not to hold you back from any sel. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • The ugliness from the right continues to speak for itself. Obama as witch doctor: Racist or satirical?
  • C Powell: I can't speak for others but if you consult this blog's previous entries you'll find that I was wholly * against* banning Geert Wilders (even, no especially, because I disagree with him) and wholly * for* publishing those cartoons once it became a freedom of expression issue. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
  • Just as many modern restaurateurs think you should do without a cruet, some modish winemakers abjure oak, preferring to let the grapes speak for themselves.
  • So the sense of beauty, the feeling for it, the desire to bring it into his work, grows up in his heart; and a new kind of fidelity -- fidelity to _feeling_ rather than to _fact_ (if I may speak for the moment in the delusive language of dualism) -- begins to weave itself into his artistic consciousness. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
  • To ensure clarity and stability, wine often needs to be fined (wine-speak for clarified) and filtered.
  • Not all people are gallant enough to speak for justice, and most of them remain silent on injustice. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • ‘We don't want to see false fronts; I have no interest in doing splashy things… I want the facts and the circumstance to speak for themselves,’ he said.
  • In Alexandrian courtrooms a defendant was permitted to speak for a certain regulated time.
  • Sometimes, stark images can speak for themselves and even narrate untold stories.
  • I think what you need to recognize is that we (and I only speak for the ones with pure souls like Visitor Again), are trying to achieve a higher state of reason and knowledge in our society. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
  • Let me just say one thing first: The father has the legal and moral authority to speak for his son.
  • You speak for all the silver surfers out there and entertain us royally. Times, Sunday Times
  • Operational reasons, old lags will recall, is British policespeak for ‘I'm not going to tell you,’ while one million is policespeak for two million.
  • The growth of Parliament was bound to encroach upon its importance by offering another body which could claim to speak for the nation.
  • Who the hell is stupe, and why should he/she get to speak for the liberal mindset? "Many people will express sympathy, but you don’t want or need that, because Trig will be a joy."
  • The outcome of the case was very interesting, and re-emphasized an important lesson: let the chart speak for itself.
  • You know the word suavity exists, and you plan to use it in every sentence you speak for the rest of your life - even if it's just whispering it seductively at the end of them like Cracked: All Posts
  • Ahmad's pictures speak for themselves as he appears to be striated from head to toe!
  • A sense of natural justice compels me to speak out in defense of mimes who cannot speak for themselves.
  • A widely adopted mode is to undertake and present research in which women speak for themselves about women's realms. Critical Social Research
  • The fracas seems to be primarily the work of one person, presuming to speak for the entire class, when in fact he spoke only for himself.
  • If those who elect this model do not take official roles in the ecumenical interchanges and processes in which the 'covenanted' body participates, this is simply because within these processes there has to be clarity about who has the authority to speak for whom. Communion, Covenant and our Anglican Future
  • Because it's cheap relative to other sources of power that can be expanded And because substantial indirect costs of coal are "externalized" which is economist-speak for "not paid by the producer". Craig K. Comstock: Green Coal
  • When I first read that, I thought "roomba" was new coolspeak for a "roommate", and that I was falling behind the times. switchmotiv 6 points 7 hours ago switchmotiv 6 points 7 hours ago saskpirate420 4 points 7 hours ago saskpirate420 4 points 7 hours ago TheEllimist 1 point 2 minutes ago kermityfrog 3 points 6 hours ago kermityfrog 3 points 6 hours ago HenkPoley 1 point 1 hour ago* Reddit.com: what's new online!
  • I myself agree with you, but I can't speak for my boss.
  • These frightening statistics speak for themselves and behind these figures there lie terrible human tragedies and unimaginable suffering.
  • The only thing optimistic is this November when the voters perform the "rectal cranial" extraction on these liberals who are destroying this country by preaching diversity over unity, allowing all religions except Christianity, and requiring Americans to speak foreign languages more proficiently than English. GOP senators zero in on Kagan's stance on gays in the military
  • Guizot, the historian, speak for the political and social realm: 'All things, at their origin, are nearly confounded in one and the same physiognomy; it is only in their aftergrowth that their variety shows itself. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • I can't speak for all implementations and in fact can speak authoritatively only for the ones used by the fuzzballs, which are scattered all over the swamps.
  • I cannot speak for Xander, but I was still scared stiff.
  • In doing so, they speak for a layer of money grubbers from the upper middle class, whose principal aim in life is their own self-enrichment, and who are acutely sensitive and envious of any one appearing to do better than themselves.
  • In this case, Obama wisely chose not to let facts speak for themselves (as they clearly had not done two months earlier when McCain succeeded in spinning a stunningly successful Obama tour of Europe and the Middle East into a beauty pageant allegedly bespeaking Obama's narcissism, empty celebrity, and appeal to foreigners). Drew Westen: Lessons Learned from the Election of 2008: Looking Back and Looking Forward
  • Ellen felt a hot tear drop upon her forehead, and again ventured to speak for sympathy only by silently stroking Alice's cheek. The Wide, Wide World
  • I will let the image speak for itself, for it has already spoken volumes to my heart in a symphony of simplicity and raw beauty.
  • He is always a companionable narrator, but he also knows when to let his subjects speak for themselves.
  • That's runner-speak for "hitting the wall, " which is what happens when a long-distance runner runs out of gas, metabolically speaking.
  • I can't attend the meeting in person, but I am sending someone to speak for me.
  • I'm sure God, long famous in moments of pique for hurling His thunderbolts about the place, cannot enjoy having this kind of intellectual sissy claiming to speak for Him.
  • The heavy bullet had traversed the ascending aorta "near its bifurcation," said Brick, who, though only an autopsical adjunct, was permitted to speak for his associates. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila
  • And withal she dreed her weird with a lofty courage, faced it full front with a high defiance, which must bespeak for ever the admiration at least of every generous spirit. England under the Tudors
  • Hello. Professor Berning. This is Freema good from the White Birch Drilling Compa goody. We were wondering if you could speak for the Drilling Technicing symposium we're sponsoring.
  • That's usually English commentator-speak for: ‘He can trap a ball without falling over.’
  • I cannot speak for him, but I was still scared stiff.
  • I can speak for all A&R people when I say, nobody minds getting an email, but people can be obnoxious - emailing everyday, and such.
  • And "we the people" -- overtaxed, over-policed, overburdened by big government, underrepresented by those who should speak for us and blissfully ignorant of the prison walls closing in on us -- will continue to trudge along a path of misery. John W. Whitehead: The 2010 Elections: Full of Sound and Fury, and Signifying Nothing
  • McCollum didn't speak for two days in hospital while his lung was being drained of blood.
  • The great achievement of the present book is that it achieves just that - by letting Godwin speak for himself, and by disinterring properly for the first time the connections that link his diverse interests.
  • His remarks also suggest that he innocently viewed intelligence analysis as largely a matter of collation; the facts would speak for themselves, if only they could only be gathered in one place.
  • And with your word you will be able to return to the stillness, to the beginning where nothing is, where all of creation returns to silence, but your word will awaken it and you will name the gods and give voice to the trees and you will give nature a tongue to speak for you of the invisible that will again be visible through your word. MALINCHE
  • They seem to speak for a civilization, not just an artist, much like the stone heads on Easter Island or the hieratic statuary of Egyptian art.
  • They didn't speak for a while longer, as the sun moved lower in the sky, signaling the oncoming of dusk and eventually night.
  • Now I can't speak for the rest of Robot 6, but I'm personally not going to judge someone who passes a file or two anymore than I'm going to judge a jaywalker or someone who walks home with a box of pens from the office supply cabinet. Just Past the Horizon: The male space is just better hidden | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • It doesn't matter how much you protest that they don't speak for you - they do, now.
  • I don't want to speak for X. I don't know if he wants me to tell people about the stuff he did.
  • Overcome with/by emotion, she found herself unable to speak for a few minutes.
  • I can speak for everybody that when she's on the floor, she kind of relaxes us all. SI.com
  • Madjess: I will let Vatican Council I speak for me: For the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter, that by His revelation they might make known new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith delivered through the Apostles... TEXAS FAITH: Why are millennials dropping out? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • Most of the 800 stands featured Italian delicacies - cured meats, bronze-cut pastas, thin bottles of grappa - but 100 foreign "presidia" Slow Food-speak for foodstuffs certified as artisanal and sustainably produced were also represented, from pink TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Well," went on the other nervously, "I want you to speak for me, if necessary -- _if necessary_, you understand? Dawn of All
  • He leans back, the point made, obviously feeling the figures speak for themselves.
  • Additions to the staff may yet broaden Obama's inner circle or speak for constituencies that feel alienated from the White House. Obama signals continuity, for now, with staff changes
  • I myself agree with you, but I can't speak for my boss.
  • There is little dialogue in the film, but the visuals speak for themselves.
  • Television pictures speak for the themselves - but what happens when you can't show images of disaster, and have to rely on word images?
  • So, predictably, the huddled masses of Bradford get ignored while those who claim to speak for them shout at each other.
  • We're half-way through the week and though I can't speak for everyone, to me it feels like a good time for some lulz to push the doldrums away.
  • There is a difference between pretending to speak for the majority and making sure its views are truly represented in the debate and public inquiry.
  • Boko Haram's attacks had been restricted to Nigeria's northeast until last month when a man claiming to speak for the group told the BBC's Hausa language service that it was responsible for three blasts that hit the northeastern city of Bauchi, the north-central city of Zaria and a town near the capital. Blast hits police HQ in Nigeria's capital
  • You actually just speak for a post modern liberalist minority that have lost all sense of history and the ability to distinguish right from wrong. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • And I can't speak for every citizen in the city of Cedar Rapids, which is a city of 120,000 people, but anecdotally, yes, many of the people that we talked to said because they were told they live in a 500-year floodplain, meaning something like this only happens every 500 years, that they did not need flood insurance, and so they didn't buy it. CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2008
  • Where he once used to lecture his audience, he is now more content to let the music speak for itself. Times, Sunday Times
  • As for Gates qualifying for the title scholar, I will let his own actions speak for themselves. Charges against Gates to be dropped
  • JB, is that FKNAWSMspeak for having the pins removed? Cheeseburger Gothic » A tip o’ the propellor beanie to Comrade Al of the People’s Republic of Redcliffistan.
  • It was his misfortune to live at the dawn of the democratic age, when the people seldom responded to the call of those who claimed to speak for them.
  • These appendices may not interest the non-specialist reader as most of the poems selected speak for themselves.
  • Perhaps that's not dissimilar to most teenagers, but naturally I can only speak for myself and my behaviour.
  • Each candidate has to speak for three minutes on their chosen subject.
  • When a court makes this value judgment the facts will often speak for themselves.
  • Immortal gods I pray no pelf I speak for no-one but myself and so forth. Quick crossword No 12,697
  • Are the people who spoke and who continue to speak forms of joual and franglais, or English, not just such ambivalent travelers, existing between languages and identities, in the split temporality of the performative?
  • You just decide to do what you are going to do and let that speak for itself. Times, Sunday Times
  •   How dare that dog, that oddly silent creature who hadn't barked or mewled or whined or growled once in thanks or fear or protest since the day I saved him from the pound's needle — how dare that dog, the one I'd been trying to teach to speak for months, speak to someone in my absence. Speak
  • Maybe the pair are speaking to each other or have dialled an exclusive celebrity service that counts down the number of calories you've burnt while sat on the phone (dialling a ten digit number scorches a whopping 2 calories, explaining why Dav-vid went to international dialling code Italy and the couple only speak for three seconds before hanging up and redialling). Anorak News
  • There are moments when she just touches the keys on the piano, or barely strums the guitar, allowing the superb room to speak for itself. Tift Merritt: Buckingham Solo – pure magic « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
  • Macy does an excellent job of humanizing Lawrence, even on those occasions when he is asked to speak forced and unnatural lines.
  • However as a local I will speak for Lock n Load and say that apart from the food is delish, they are unlikely to turf out unruly riff raff such as present company (victorians mainly) so why frighten the good people of Vietnam in West End? Cheeseburger Gothic » Strictly no faffing. This is serious.
  • (Lord ARTHUR and I frequently do not speak for a week unless someone is present) -- but I do not think these things should be made public, and besides, it is an unwritten law amongst "smart" people to avoid subjects that "chafe" -- which sounds like an anachronism -- whatever that means! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892
  • Are the people who spoke and who continue to speak forms of joual and franglais, or English, not just such ambivalent travelers, existing between languages and identities, in the split temporality of the performative?
  • I love to eat as much as the next guy, but I also love simplicity - honest food that nourishes, that lets ingredients speak for themselves.
  • The result is to facilitate partner preference formation, which is geekspeak for 'make them fall in love'.
  • The reconviction rates speak for themselves. The Sun
  • I can only speak for my own specialties, organic and medicinal chemistry.
  • I myself agree with you, but I can't speak for my boss.
  • When states are free to develop their own programs, the results speak for themselves.
  • The committee's work was hampered by a dearth of reliable information, with no single body able to speak for the industry. Times, Sunday Times
  • In so far as she possibly can, she lets this great dull store of words speak for themselves, without addition to their number.
  • If I may speak for the Law Officers of the Crown, we are scrupulous in bearing that vital principle in mind.
  • No wonder he was making such a fuss of hunting for whoever was responsible-and then seizin" on yon poor woman who couldna even speak for herself. Drums of Autumn
  • You do as much as you need to do; but with a system that's currently flying, the successes should speak for themselves, as opposed to some numbers that Ares is "deriving" based on paper calculations. Augustine Commission To Meet Today - NASA Watch
  • By what right did it attempt to speak for the parish?
  • Where he once used to lecture his audience, he is now more content to let the music speak for itself. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was neither delegated by the Congregation to speak for it, nor was I in any sense a "consultor" to the Congregation. John Kerry, Excommunicated?
  • The person reached by telephone was asked whether he or she could speak for the family or if he or she would designate someone else.
  • Now I find it unlikely that the BNPs theorists are unaware of the enormous gulf in ideology which separates the average Joe in the pew from the Bishops and other leaders who speak for them. Archive 2004-02-22
  • Tight-lipped, he appeared discomfited by the questions thrown at him by Brewer, and relied on streams of impenetrable government-speak for his responses.
  • I'm gonna take a liberty and speak for Edward and Barry and say that we love what we're doing.
  • Smug sanctimony is an interesting disease as those infected usually believe they speak for everyone else and are objective observers. EXCLUSIVE: LOAN TORY CHOOSES THIS BLOG TO GO PUBLIC
  • In such a case the purchaser may plead res ipsa loquitur - the facts speak for themselves.
  • Well for him if it proved that Ninian could speak for him, and show clearly that his own bitter debt had gone unreclaimed. The Raven In The Foregate
  • I speak for those who can't speak, for the deaf and dumb witnesses, for otters and seals, for the ancient owls of the earth.

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