Sentences with phrase «utter syllables»

Certainly no Cassandra uttering syllables that can't hold onto their meaning — unless one hears her wailing in the howls of Alaska's wolves.

• The eighteenth - century French writer and dramatist Nicolas Chamfort wrote: «Nearly all people live in slavery for the reason the Spartans gave us as the cause of the slavery of the Persians: they are not able to utter the syllable «no.»

Before I had a chance to utter a syllable, the doctor in charge guffawed.

Not exact matches

@sam scoville — for one who hangs on every nuance and every syllable uttered or written, surely you of all people can empathize?

«In the sound of a word we can distinguish two sets of information: information about content, the actual sound of the single syllables, and information about the order in which the syllables are uttered.

I absorbed every syllable he uttered, for this was guidance coming from a master screenwriter with a massive wealth of experience and wisdom.

Brolin puts more care into uttering a single, syllable - and - a-half Alright than many actors devote to entire performances.

The engineers hung on every syllable uttered, noting every gesticulation and throwing a satisfied smile at every «holy $ & # *!!»

If you won't explain why it is publishers need the rights to an author's work for lifetime + 70, then there's really nothing else that you can say that will make me believe a single syllable you ever utter.

Ask anyone to name a tablet, more than likely they will utter three syllables synonymous with crowd favorite... iPad 2.

I have uttered not a single syllable against the concept one might label, pretentiously, intersectionality.

Those issues will loom over every syllable Krzanich utters from the stage, and the industry will be watching to see how he handles it.