President Barack Obama delivered a perfect speech last night.

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Her speech was a perfect combination of substance and inspiration, and the enthusiastic reception made it clear that she had hit all the right notes.

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Sure, it's hardly perfect: "I have yet to have a really good speech recognition experience, " says Greg DeMichillie, lead analyst, Directions on Microsoft.

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That speech in the Batman movie about living so large could have been a perfect fit for Lauren Greenfield's deliciously appalling documentary about the billionaire couple who built the biggest house in America, then went bust after the 2008 crash.

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In his speech to the conference, delegate Julian Perfect said he was not advocating a return to corporal punishment.

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In his closing speech for Vicky Pryce, Julian Knowles QC told the jury that she had been the victim of a perfect storm of incidents that led to her being forced into taking the points.

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