Sentences with phrase «speeches as both sword»
«I think you are starting to see him put the empahsis on honing his bully puluipt skills and using those speeches as both sword and shield on the policy grounds.»
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(4:23) For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two - edged sword.
As a spin - off, the film doesn't have anything you haven't seen before, but if you're missing some sword fighting and rousing speeches in your life, this is the one for you.
Perhaps the greatest example of this is the controversy over Pope Benedict XVI's speech touching on Islam, in which Benedict cited the expression of the views of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos by quoting: «Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.»