How To Use Utterance In A Sentence

Although most researchers stress the grammaticality of the majority of bilingual utterances, they assume that the grammatical norms of the two languages in isolation provide the basis for determining what is grammatical.
Besides, he had, it seems, a weakness in his voice, a perplexed and indistinct utterance and a shortness of breath, which, by breaking and disjointing his sentences much obscured the sense and meaning of what he spoke. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
After the lapse of a fortnight, Hepburn, candidate for congressman-at-large, declined to accept because "it is quite apparent that a very large portion of the Republicans, owing to the unfortunate circumstances which have come to light since the adjournment of the convention, are not disposed to accept its conclusion as an authoritative utterance of the party." [ A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
It has already been explained that the Papal rescript condemning the plan of campaign and the practice of boycotting is not an utterance ex cathedra.
I remember during the 8-year Bush Presidency, various friends of mine on the Left eviscerated President Bush on every word stumble, misplaced thought, "unpolitical" correct utterance, and his Texas ways many times. The Moderate Voice

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The thinking process of artistic language embodies the aesthetic differences of the utterance subject.
In addition to such verbalized utterances there will be a number of sighs, suspirations, and ritual gestures: rapid and repeated finger tapping, holding of the head in one hand, or two hands, and so forth.
My reaction to that utterance led to an open and scorching debate.
Though these systems are described as communication, the central theoretical questions are whether the communicative utterances are referential and whether the utterers are mentally representing the referent, that is, whether the utterance is meaningful from the perspective of conspecifics. Animal Cognition
The major data source for the linguist is not a corpus of attested utterances but a native speaker's intuitions.
The former involve a description of linguistic structures, usually based on utterances elicited from native-speaking informants.
These utterances/acts are outside the consideration of truth or falsehood; they are semantically empty - they can produce only meanings.
Again the mitten was a caressing obstacle to utterance. Smoke Bellew
There are times and things concerning which words utterly fail and must fail to give utterance to the feelings of the heart, and this, let me say, is one of those times -- a day that I can never forget, a day for which -- though most unworthy of what has been given me -- I must always feel the devoutest thankfulness to Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885.
For if we are right, clearness of utterance forwards the cause of right; while if we are wrong, it ensures the speedy correction of error.
He had a talent for self-advertisement and had built himself up into a picturesque figure given to gnomic utterances about his own significance in the world.
-- I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him -- an atrior cura at his tail -- and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Jack-indifferent cry of "Clo ', clo'!" who knows what woeful utterances are crying from the heart within? Catherine: a Story
[701] The idea that this number was "chthonic" and a monopoly of the Sibylline utterances was started by The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
According to the 1940 Statement of Principles, professors in their extramural utterances ‘should make every effort to indicate that they are not speaking for the institution.’
It is true for intra-generational talk as well that speakers are not constrained to use Creole to respond to a Creole utterance.
We know from the theoreticians of pragmatics that there's a useful distinction to be drawn between intended and actual perlocutionary effects, but this is usually discussed with reference to the effect of an utterance on the persons we are talking to. Archive 2009-01-01
The sense in which the existence of something answering to a definite description used for the purpose of identifying reference, and its distinguishability by an audience from anything else, is presupposed and not asserted in an utterance containing such an expression, so used, stands absolutely firm, whether or not one opts for the view that radical failure of the presupposition would deprive the statement of a truth-value. Peter Frederick Strawson
Before Socrates, Greek philosophers were seers rather than reasoners: the apophthegmatic character of their utterances affects to be the result rather of intuition than of reasoning.
I counted at least a half-dozen utterances in the pre-credits sequence, plus one "declasse" from Jim. Zap2it.com - Zap 2 News & Buzz
Nothing restores my faith in the simple power of reason better than the utterances of a man of God.
Matthew Gilson Joseph Epstein Perhaps with this last reference he is playing off a quote from Saint-Simon: "Mme de Saint Simon, all goodness, tried in vain to check our most outrageous utterances, but the brakes were off and there ensued the most fearful struggle between the expression of sentiments that, humanly speaking, were quite natural, and the sensations that they were not altogether Christian. Boulevardier's Delight
I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals. Chapter 29
To territorialize the whole South, and place a satrap over every parish and county of it -- saying no word for freedom -- would be a gentle and conciliating procedure compared with the most innocent utterance of a mere sentiment in behalf of emancipation and the elevation of the negro to the status of a man. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Let no man's greatness be a bar to full utterance; but let temperance and charity -- duties peculiarly imperative when uttering derogatory truth -- be especially observed towards a resplendent suffering brother like Coleridge, suffering from his own weakness, but on that very account entitled to a tenderer consideration from those who are themselves endowed to feel and claim something more than common human affinity with a nature so large and so susceptive. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
These prophecies are often reduced to the status of propaganda only, downplaying their religious value as interpretations of history, parenesis, and actualization of past authoritative utterances.
As we apply the metaphor to the problem of the tongue-speakers at Corinth, we note that the protasis (the ‘if’ clause of a conditional sentence) of 7b can also be rendered, ‘if one does not give detailed explanation to the utterances.’
These edges can be considered mutually exclusive interpretations of some stretch of the utterance defined by the z and x axis.
Faith is not just the utterance of words, however, but a firm belief and conviction with one's mind and heart.
It is in the Zend-Avesta, primal Japhetic utterance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
Given the infelicitous effects of other utterances in the play, Titus's vow during this extended ritual does not act as directly or causatively as he thinks it does.
The key to her stance is her conviction that no utterance can inaugurate an exchange in which it could ensure a return on its speculation: What pledge would guarantee you for me if/I were so generously to set you free? Tragedy and the War of the Aesthetic
She deprives language of its mimetic function, confining it to the site of its utterance and apprehension rather than using it as a tool to comprehend the world.
Moreover, I will give you a splendid staff of riches and wealth: it is of gold, with three branches, and will keep you scatheless, accomplishing every task, whether of words or deeds that are good, which I claim to know through the utterance of Zeus. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Upon the utterance of this word, Dan and Harry exchanged a quick, meaningful look.
Aristotle's logical works were arranged in an order of increasing complexity, beginning with the Categories, which deals with simple, uncombined utterances. John Philoponus
Of course, discrimination and prejudice are all around, and only an infinitesimally tiny sliver of the total number of racist utterances will ever get in front of a Tribunal judge.
The ironic echoic utterances examined here convey, in their own unusual way, many of the common charges made against the late twelfth-century reformers and the Cistercian order in particular.
The legends and sayings about her, locked into memorable shapes like any other conventionalised poetic utterance, did not necessarily adapt to her changing social role.
Many is the time, as the weariness of my spirit witnesseth, that I have heard Sah-luma rehearse, -- but never in all my experience of his prolix multiloquence, hath he given utterance to such a senseless jingle-jangle of verse-jargon as to-night! Ardath
We also need to be less gentlemanly in our public utterances. Times, Sunday Times
To me their very restrainedness, calmness, matter-of-factness, if I may so call it, are a strong guarantee that they are the utterance of an eyewitness, who verily saw what he tells so simply. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
Hugh, speaking now with an elaborate ceremoniousness of utterance significant of a struggle to suppress violent emotion. The Brigade Commander
Up to the moment of its utterance Goneril has done no more than to require him 'a little to disquantity 'and reform his train of knights. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
And now I did certainly remark a quality in his voice that was new to my ear; it was not, as he had said, a labour or thickness of utterance, but a dryness and parchedness of old age, with many breaks from high to low notes, and a lean noise of dribbling threading every word. The Frozen Pirate
One of the main difficulties in writing on Levinas is the risk of thematizing propositions and concepts which in their very utterance in Levinas's work always already fall victim to thematization.
So most of their public utterances appear bland and insipid or boring. The Sun
This seems like a simple statement, what the linguistic philosopher J.L. Austin termed a constative utterance: a base level of communication, with no metaphor or secondary meanings attached. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2
The illocutionary act is what is directly achieved by the conventional force associated with the issuance of a certain kind of utterance in accord with a conventional procedure.
Zeno's paradoxes and the self - referential paradoxes, “the Liar” in particular, raise the problem of “matching” verbal utterance to perceived reality and to conceptions, a topic also explored, with due attention to verbal and logical paradoxy, in the LITERARY PARADOX
Nowhere, for example, will you find a more pellucid explanation for the existence of Young Republicans, the popular belief in angels, or the utterances of Fundamentalist Christians Is Barack Obama An American Citizen? | Heretical Ideas Magazine
The errors are patent and they are explicable by what we say is a rather shallow analysis of the admissible value of those utterances in the record of interview.
One definition of singing is' the utterance of words or sounds in tuneful succession '.
If Sarkozy were a character in a movie rather than president of France, a conscientious sub-titler would have rendered his utterance as "Fuck off then, pathetic loser. Lisa Nesselson: France for Nonmajors: Things You May Want to Know about Marion Cotillard, Nicholas Sarkozy and French Media
The svengali behind many of the shows is Simon Cowell, who is on the evidence of his own utterances one kind of amortal archetype. The Guardian World News
However, their every utterance is designed to inflame fears and tensions and give succour to the fascists.
Their collective utterances may help us to understand the meaning they wished to attach to this favoured term.
Sorry if I am difficult to interpretate: What I missed in your blogg was a political utterance about the catastophe in New Orleans from YOU. Life, elsewhere
For example, the utterance ‘Nice shirt’ between two friends will have one meaning in the chatting frame as opposed to the teasing frame.
For Wittgenstein, by contrast, the analysis shows that the assertor never was ontologically committed to the complex [aRb] by an utterance of “[aRb] exists.” Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism
What we get now is a Leader who has been so thoroughly media managed that every utterance is an opportunity to ‘establish and reiterate key messages’.
He will support his arguments with many stories of the wonderful instinct and percipiency displayed by his animals; all of which stories, though exceedingly marvellous, obtain implicit credence in the mind of the narrator; and only come short, in point of hyperbolical marvel, of the wonderful utterance of Tom Connor's cat, in the plain Anglo-Saxon vernacular. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
Lexical access is not an autonomous process which a central processor can direct towards any part of the utterance.
Their public utterances rang with appreciation of their significance in the great drama of human affairs. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
There can be no question that the church assumed itself capable of authoritative prophetic utterances.
Speech (the utterance of a well-formed sentence in a particular situation) establishes three kinds of relation to reality.
Convention in Speech Acts ":" For the illocutionary force of an utterance is essentially something that is intended to be understood. Notes on 'Post-Secular Conviviality'
They indicate the relationship of utterances in the mind or in the world and are thus in a way contextual.
Job wrote his epic poem in a state of society which we should probably term uncultivated; and when Lamech gave utterance to the most ancient and the saddest of human lyrics, the world was in its infancy, and it would appear as if the first artificer in "brass and iron" had only helped to make homicide more easy. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
We all need to honor Senator Kennedy by using our utterances and actions to mend an America which some would rather see rend asunder. center left Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
His most sensible utterance came when he insisted: ‘Our children need to understand, at home and at school, that life is not always fair and that it will, from time to time, deal them hard blows.’
Unfortunately, the beginnings of utterances appear to be particularly unconstrained by either the acoustic material or the linguistic interpretation.
I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals. Chapter 29
The quoted event can be a linguistic utterance; moreover, as this example shows, the quoted element can be fronted.
These effects correspond to the perlocutions of utterances.
Consistent testing Implicit in the anecdote about the sore head was the need to test the utterance.
The meaning of a sentence is abstract, and de - contextualized , while utterance meaning is concrete, and context-dependent.
Instead, public utterances are invariably dictated by self-interest, political expediency, and/or ideology.
Identification takes place by noticing subtle differences between grammatical and ungrammatical utterances.
The repetition of the word century, instead of evoking diachrony, only further betrays the precarious instantaneity of the utterance, its vocalic ephemerality.
He has to a very slight extent, but still perceptibly, encouraged a kind of charlatanism of utterance among those who possess his Irish impudence without his Irish virtue. George Bernard Shaw
Gottlob Frege (1918, 22) characterized the assertoric quality of an utterance as an assertoric force Him
Their utterances are syntactically simpler, contain a narrower range of semantic content, and less frequently refer outside the here-and-now.
(Austin presents the distinction between performative and constative utterances.) Pragmatics
Only at this time of year can you truly claim to have been touched by the cold magic that is invoked by the mere utterance of the word ‘Alaska’.
At the time, on the gun decks of the Indomitable, the general estimate of his nature and its unconscious simplicity eventually found rude utterance from another foretopman, one of his own watch, gifted, as some sailors are, with an artless poetic temperament; the tarry hands made some lines which after circulating among the shipboard crew for a while, finally got rudely printed at Portsmouth as a ballad. Billy Budd
Presently, the agency can only fine broadcast stations up to $27, 500 per utterance and have to warn the individuals who violate the rules before a penalty can be imposed.
The new coach gives little away in his facial manner or public utterances.
While religious freedom had been secured, philosophy had become timid, official, and timeserving; retentive as FONTENELLE of the truths within its grasp, and fearful to give utterance to aught that might disturb the stillness of the temple, the lecture-room, or fashionable auditory. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges
Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind.
That God would open to us a door of utterance, that is, either afford opportunity to preach the gospel (so he says, a great door and effectual is opened to me, 1 Cor.xvi. 9), or else give me ability and courage, and enable me with freedom and faithfulness; so Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
gnu," from a hollow moaning sound to which these creatures sometimes give utterance, and which is represented by the word "gnoo-o-oo. Popular Adventure Tales
So most of their public utterances appear bland and insipid or boring. The Sun
Note the form of the exhortation, 'exercise thyself _towards_ godliness,' which involves the same thought as is expressed in Paul's other utterance of irrepressible aspiration and effort, 'Not as if I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after,' or as he had just said, 'press towards the mark,' in continual approximation to the ideal. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
He read the twelve Republican principles, and each utterance received its applause like the readoption of a popular creed. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
Thompson is such a wry, friendly presence that his every utterance draws a chuckle from the faithful (most of the time a deserved one, though sometimes he'll say "thanks" and they'll still be in stitches). Michael Giltz: Music: Richard Thompson at Town Hall
The rhetorical construction of the subject is the foundational gesture of lyrical utterance.
But they were infrequent appearances and utterances in public. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, one might say that we reinterpret these concepts at every moment of utterance or enunciation.
But Hamsun sets his battle in the sign of the heart, not of the head; it is a marivaudage of feeling, none the less deep for its erratic utterance. The Growth of the Soil
To understand a deictic is therefore not to ‘interpret’ it but simply to grasp by observation what it singles out in the physical situation of utterance.
Everyday language, involving a system of logical entailment, has to fall back into a kind of stammering utterance or pure exclamation.
If a sentence is uttered as a boast, then one of the appropriacy conditions will be that the speaker believes that the utterance of his sentence will place him in some advantage over his hearer.
Thoughts, of themselves, are perpetually slipping out of the field of immediate mental vision; but the name abides with us, and the utterance of it restores them in a moment. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
Often it stems from his words, which, as in a misspelled grocery sign or an onomatopoeic utterance, appear both everyday and incorrect.
The meaning of this gnomic utterance still eludes me.
Haaretz duly notes the “efforts to banalize the Holocaust” in Chavez speech, and notes that a few months ago the CAIV leadership tried to excuse another anti Semitic utterance of Chavez even as a majority of the Jewish population in Venezuela seems to have been against the directive of the CAIV bureau something Haaretz might want o inquire within? 08/06/2006 - 08/13/2006
For the record, I absolutely hated President Bush being eviscerated for every word stumble, misplaced thought, "unpolitical" correct utterance, and his Texas ways. The Moderate Voice
That is what I call oppression!" returned Mr. Bacon, in momentary indignation, for the utterance of which he was as quickly repentant. The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
If you wanted to separate the freezing in shock from the utterance for some reason (I can't think of one right now, but you never know), then example two would work, in context. Question About Dialogue Format
From the description of the peculiarity in their mode of utterance, which the journal of the voyage calls sighing, and from the circumstance that the same people were found in the bay of St. Blas, 60 leagues beyond the Cape, there can be no doubt that they were Hottentots. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson
As a result, the work of literature is itself a concrete utterance within those discourses, existing on the same discursive plane as a contribution to their verbal-ideological life.
Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to become feeble in his. utterance.
Which developmental change takes place in the transition from holophrastic one-word utterances to multi-word utterances?
Blatant cheating is considered less offensive than the utterance of odious words.
The audience, like the other characters, can sometimes unriddle these enigmatic utterances, sometimes not.
He said that lawmakers should be extremely vigilant about foul language ‘for the light utterance of shameful words leads soon to shameful actions.’
Such gnomic utterances are no use to policymakers.
When an expression referring to an antecedent utterance is substituted for ‘x’ in ‘x is true,’ the resulting claim will have the same content as its anaphoric antecedent.
His compositions were elevated and formal, distinguished by the boldness of their metaphors and a marked reliance on myth and gnomic utterance.
But there are many instances where the address carries no more specific a meaning than is conveyed by ‘lovely days, isn't it ’, what the linguists call phatic utterances.
The new theorists of painting and the literary arts in the 15th and 16th centuries had rhetoric and poetics on their minds, supported by philosophical utterances when they felt the need.
The occasion of the utterance was the threat by the so-called Holy Alliance to interfere forcibly in South America with a view to reseating Spain in control of her former colonies there. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
Clever, however only I-QA-*118 (HT44) ~ QA-*118 (KH 10) and I-DA-MA-TE (AR Zf1) ~ DA-MA-TE (KY Za 2) are available as evidence for this vocalic utterance, only significant if we assume that the two items of each pair have identical meaning. Archive 2010-02-01
[8] In 2003, Tamaki, in what he described as a prophetic utterance, predicted that Destiny would be "ruling the nation" within five years. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
On the Demonstrative Theory it is unclear why this should be so: the spoken utterance demonstrates a vocal pattern, and the written utterance a graphemic pattern. Quotation
The agency strictly circumscribes all public utterances by members of the Imperial Family.
What is missing, he argues, is an acknowledgement of the history of delay, prevarication, demands for clarification, gnomic utterances, false trails, garden paths and double-speak by the republican leadership.
A minimum of 50 complete sentences from the total corpus of 100 utterances is needed for Developmental Sentence Scoring.
They distinguish temporal entities such as men, plants, and utterances from atemporal entities such as numbers and propositions, and these again from supratemporal beings such as God.
An utterance of a sentence, i.e. a locutionary act, by means of which a question is asked is thus an utterance with interrogative force, and when an assertion is made the utterance has assertoric force. Him
Your every utterance is like the slithering hiss of a fat maggot in the putrid guts of a decomposing rat; your face is fouler than the unwiped inner ring of Satan's rectum. Harry Cohen MP is an odious little cunt.
I've suggested that Rice's utterance is unlikely to be function-free, and also that it's unlikely to have been used to question, negate, or contradict.
The uncertainty of this utterance is indicated strongly in Stoppard's stage directions.
So most of their public utterances appear bland and insipid or boring. The Sun
In donnish inquisitions he would challenge every utterance to expose lazy thinking.
An utterance typical of the red brick (in Manhattan, "white brick") yoick Brits that S.I. Newhouse Jr. has imported by the boxcar, for reasons that escape this observer. The Return of Gentility? No, It's Scoundrel Time!
There can be no question that the church assumed itself capable of authoritative prophetic utterances.
Lacan's own riddling manner mimics the utterances of the unconscious.
Lexical access in turn produces a list of word matches over some portion of the utterance which are ordered by score.
Once this common element in all illocutionary acts is clear, we can really acknowledge that the types of audience-directed intention involved may be very various and, also, that different types may be exemplified by one and the same utterance (38). Notes on 'Post-Secular Conviviality'
Every ‘utterance’ is therefore laden with the social and political intentions of the utterer and the social and political expectations of the receiver.
I have argued further that we can view utterances as significant, and as synonymous or heteronymous with one another, without countenancing a realm of entities called meanings.
The analysis for Developmental Sentence Types involves classifying each utterance in respect of number of words and grammatical category.
What won't be unusual to many is the banal content of Warhol's utterances, his obsession with trivialities, and his seeming shallowness.
However, when developing his general theory of speech acts, Austin abandoned the constative/performative distinction, the reason being that it is not so clear in what sense something is done e.g. by means of an optative utterance, expressing a wish, whereas nothing is done by means of an assertoric one. Him
Incidental statements, called obiter dicta, are also examples of non-definitive utterances. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Despite occasional rough patches where he resorts to four-letter vulgarities, he comes up with countless utterances so pungent you want to recite them to everyone within earshot.
Yeah, I think we get bogged down in ‘I love you’ as performative utterance.
His bizarre word rhythm and gleeful disregard for punctuation makes even his most banal utterances sound dramatic.
In this book, the term formal thought disorder is used to refer to the aphasialike utterances of patients. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
Introduction Continuous speech processing requires the application of very many sources of knowledge in order to decode the utterance.
Despite his utterances during the brief encounter with Toby, Dominic had actually been surprised to be offered the job.
The literary utterance too creates the state of affairs to which it refers, in several respects.
It was a tradition of vatic utterance, such as that represented by Blake - the Blake of the prophetic books.
But no public utterances appear to cover home production, nor to deal with the obstacles still placed in our way by stale customs and sports. Times, Sunday Times
I have no idea what their thinking is at this moment in time other than by reading their own public utterances.
Pitch must be considered under three heads: first, as referring to the prevailing elevation of tone assumed by the voice in the reading of a whole sentence, passage, or selection, called _general_ or _sentential pitch_; second, as referring to the degree of elevation assumed by the voice in the utterance of the opening, or radical, of any syllable, called _initial_ or _radical pitch_; third, as referring to the tone-width of the intervals in the utterance of the syllable concrete. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
My dear young lady," he remonstrated, "can you blame me for the unwise, indiscreet utterances of every Dutch predicant who opens his mouth? The Rhodesian
an air of unstudied spontaneous utterance is apt to be painstakingly achieved
The Chief Minister's belligerent attitude and his subsequent public utterances justifying his stance have only made matters worse for the Centre.
The unbearable note of flippant jeering, which is underneath almost all modern utterance. The Plumed Serpent
Each and every further utterance of these feeble claims, simply illustrates the ignorance and contempt in which these people view the military.
I found one other instructive quote from the right hon. Gentleman - a delphic utterance worthy of William Wordsworth at his best.
An utterance of a sentence, i.e. a locutionary act, by means of which a question is asked is thus an utterance with interrogative force, and when an assertion is made the utterance has assertoric force. Him
There has obviously been a conscious decision and determination on his part to make his life a fulfilment of prophetic utterance.
Deliberately peppering his utterances with swear words and appearing in public carefully dishevelled is not setting a good example of behaviour. David Steel says what we are all thinking
There are always referential alternatives possible to the speaker and addressee and to the observer in relation to any utterance.
Every utterance from the illegal prime meanster is hollow like that thingamajig held up by his neck, and so terribly terribly shallow. Global Voices in English » Fiji: New constitution or delaying tactic?
The erratic behavior and preposterous claims of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi -- probably the only contemporary politician whose life was the subject of an opera produced in September 2006 by the English National Opera under the title Gaddafi: A Living Myth -- make it difficult to take him seriously, yet some of the utterances he made during his 42 years in power warrant closer examination. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
These two words connote at once a corporeal indwelling of the Divine (a Divine madness which is necessary for the making of sagacious, artistic utterance), and an empty, arrogant persiflage (as in being puffed up, or ‘blowing hot air’).
The doctrine of progress found an eloquent defender in that last and noblest utterance of Condorcet which is still perhaps its most perfect justification. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham
Dr. Swinnerton himself never appeared to triturate or decoct or do anything else with the mysterious herbs, our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the hour of death. The Dolliver Romance
As one of the world's most respected economists, his rare public utterances were often opaque and always carefully managed. Times, Sunday Times
The hagiographic accounts of his life report that because his speech, like that of the Buddha, was profound and his words spread throughout the world he came to be called Buddhaghoa, literally meaning ‘Buddha utterance’.
For now I will make avaunt, said Sir Launcelot, I will that ye all wit that yet I found never no manner of knight but that I was overhard for him, an I had done my utterance, thanked be Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Indeed, the same utterance may be used to present either a deductive or an inductive argument, deepening on the intentions of the person advancing it.
Adjacency pairs are patterns of two successive utterances, spoken by different speakers, in which the second part of the adjacency pair is relevant and expectable.
Such utterances, especially from a supposedly left-wing government, are revolutionary.
Then the goddess, strange and ominous to see, fashions into the likeness of Aeneas a thin and pithless shade of hollow mist, decks it with Dardanian weapons, and gives it the mimicry of shield and divine helmet plume, gives unsubstantial [640-673] words and senseless utterance, and the mould and motion of his tread: like shapes rumoured to flit when death is past, or dreams that delude the slumbering senses. The Aeneid of Virgil
He was mercilessly satirical on the failures of his pupils, to whom (having reduced them, by the most ridiculous imitation of their unfortunate vocal attempts, to an almost inaudible utterance of _pianissimo_ pipings) he would exclaim, "Ma per carità! aprite la bocca! che cantate come uccelli che dormano! Records of a Girlhood
And to say the truth, remembering that Dr. Swinnerton himself never appeared to triturate or decoct or do anything else with the mysterious herbs, our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the hour of death. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
The locutionary act I performed was simply the utterance of a sentence with a particular meaning. Feminist Philosophy of Language
He could be both hortatory and minatory in his public utterances and yet retreat to a small, still voice in the solitude of his study.
Introduction Continuous speech processing requires the application of very many sources of knowledge in order to decode the utterance.
Again, however, we must realize that the distinction between art and nonart, between literature and the nonliterary linguistic utterance, is fluid. LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES
The tone is light, but not Shakespeare-lite: no compromise is made on the speaking of the verse; the application of modern directorial techniques maximises the potential in every word and no utterance is left unilluminated.
Spoken utterances are composed of a sequence of a rather small number of unit sounds.
His most important utterance on the subject came in a speech in Indianapolis in July 1999.
If that be the case, then Monica is well within her right to fetter her freedom of speech but I am not prepared to follow suit, provided that my utterances are not frivolous or vexatious and always made in the best interest of the people.
And the tomtit and canary have, no doubt, at least private agreement that the utterances of the nightingale are _galimatias_, while the carrion crow thinks the eagle a fool for dwelling so high and flying so much higher. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
profane utterances against the Church
Such a host of sparrows twitter that it reminds one more of a stream joyful sound than of a compound of little utterances.
It is not, however, clear that the term illusion is justified; for this supposes a distinction between truth and error-a distinction which has no meaning for the genuine pantheist; all our judgments being the utterance of the One that thinks in us, it is impossible to discriminate the true from the false. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
It was a spontaneous, unrehearsed, utterance of a closed interrogative clause with a complex subject containing an auxiliary.
They are low and insinuating, a kind of sibilant utterance: Tentation de saint Antoine. English

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