But conversation has a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
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Murtha's aides handed out copies of his written speech beforehand.
In my work as a leadership communication coach, I emphasize the importance of delivering a well-written speech that has an inspiring vision, engaging stories, self-deprecating humor, and personalized examples.
Instead, his well-written speech -- presented as a refutation of President Barack Obama's second inaugural address -- was incomplete and dominated by many of the straw-man arguments he decried.
Another senior Likud man said he could not have written the speech better himself.
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"I haven't really written a speech, because every time I wrote a speech for the past one of these things, I didn't win, " he began.
They apply to speech, to the written word, to indirect speech and so on.
There is a process by which a speech is written, the President reviews it, makes edits, the speech is rewritten, adjusted according to what he wants, and that normal process is being followed.
But however beautifully written, a speech can only be made great by the presidency that follows.
The UK government's legislative plans for the next year were outlined by the Queen in a speech written by ministers.
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John McCain, stung by his double-digit defeat in South Carolina, gave a concession speech written by a pen dipped in acid.
The Queen set out the government's plans in a speech written for her by the government amid the traditional pomp and ceremony of the state opening of parliament.
"(Quiet riots) happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates, " according to a written version of his speech.
In a well written, somewhat academic speech Correa lays out these policies including the reformulation of the state constitution and the creation of a Constituent assembly.
Part of his dislike of the whole experience came from when he inevitably forgot one of those memorized lines, and went into a tizzy trying to recall it so that he would give the audience the entire speech as written.
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But they do not call the authors of the posts names and they do not use rude speech, particularly when rude speech is written in the course of criticizing the author of the post or any of the people who have come to comment on the post.
Bill Buckley and David Gelertner suggest the speech was badly written.
The Royal Address, commonly known as the Queen's speech (or King's speech), is written by the government.
This morning's headlines and the reaction to them led to that part of the speech being re-written.
The pop star, whose real name is Park Jae-sang, also joked that he's heard that he is the first person to make a speech at Harvard without a written script.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who met briefly with President Obama at the White House just before he left for the Middle East, dismissed criticisms of the speech, explaining that it was written with an Arab audience in mind.
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Apart from the Clintons', nearly every speech sounded as if it had been written by the same team.
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But the biggest truth running through the speech is that France, as Charles Grant has written, is learning the art of "followership" in Europe.
"Obtaining a broad range of telephone records in order to ferret out a government leaker is an unacceptable abuse of power, " Ben Wizner, the head of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, said in a written statement.
Ms Gindoz had just written an email to partners critical of the Lao government and the lack of freedom of speech.
The speech today, though, was very different, it was almost as if it was written by the administration.
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