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"recitation" Definitions
  1. [countable, uncountable] an act of saying a piece of poetry or literature that you have learned to an audience
  2. [countable] an act of talking or writing about a series of things
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Bell's recitation was hilarious — and more than a little disturbing.
Monday's hearing offered yet another detailed recitation of Melgar's death.
It's more a recitation of White House talking points. 5.
It is, characteristically, a recitation of ingredients, principles, and practices.
A vivid, colorful recitation of those efforts would be damning.
A vivid, colorful recitation of those efforts would be damning.
Like performing music, games are a blend of recitation and improvisation.
The pleasure is in the drinking, not the recitation of facts.
Her recitation of her boss's position likely filled congressional Republicans with dread.
Oliver didn't even mention free speech or civil liberties in his recitation.
It is a riveting recitation by both actors, whose deliveries are very different.
The government statistical agencies typically offer only a dry recitation of the numbers.
Mr. Maloney headed off into a sarcastic recitation of the witness's zigzagging accounts.
Her nearly five-minute-long recitation vividly recounted multiple sexual assaults and a miscarriage.
And he quickly outdid the other boys in the memorization and recitation of scripture.
The particular video that you're citing is a complete recitation of Pew Research Statistics.
The film ends with a gutless recitation of Churchill's "fight on the beaches" speech.
When Donald Trump took the podium, he too seemed surprised by his wife's recitation.
The seesaw between recitation and song continues, at times wisely dispensing with Brechtian asides.
The lines in their films never lose the striking, often flat quality of recitation.
The book reads like a recitation of talking points, a paint-by-numbers manifesto.
Watching him is like witnessing a recitation, a prayer, a madness, a modern ballet.
The man's recitation evokes incredible pathos, but Piper doesn't let the viewer wallow in sympathy.
Sudanese state television interrupted its programming to broadcast a recitation of the Quran in mourning.
Among his causes: pressing administrators to require the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Yet Mr. Nagarkar's tone is witty and humorous; he avoided a simple recitation of woes.
When the number recitation was switched to the other language midway, their video responses also switched.
And the way I'm reciting it, it's not big emotional recitation—it has a certain gravitas.
The "Menu Song" lyrics are a full recitation of every item McDonald's sold at the time.
In war stories, as in memoirs of abuse and genocide, a recitation of facts will suffice.
First a recitation of the bare facts, followed by images of police tape and crime scenes.
Mostly, his traditional methods — the wave of a knife, a tight slap, whispered recitation — treat depression.
Father opened a small surau behind our house where he taught the neighborhood kids prayer recitation.
The school's website vaunts its success in pursuits including karate, biology, chemistry, Arabic, music and Koran recitation.
Even his recitation of "10599 Deerwood Park Boulevard" was accompanied by cheers, applause, and a pep band.
Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School announced it will be eliminating the Pledge of Allegiance recitation in the morning.
Before anyone cared about metrics, news was a fair, impartial recitation of fact delivered without false equivalences.
Scholars have long puzzled over the recitation, which doesn't seem to match any known prophecy of Merlin's.
Detailed, largely affectless and sometimes rushed, this recitation accompanies images that initially seem completely unrelated, even random.
The result is simply painful, especially Sanders's droning recitation of the Woody Guthrie classic that Vampire Weekend performed.
Mr. Elliott gamely fields every one, moving around the clauses, to relay the same bland recitation of facts.
Obama's speech was framed as a call to action rather than a recitation of his accomplishments in office.
Three years later, he earned a master's degree in Quranic recitation from the Saddam University for Islamic Studies.
What seems to matter then is that they're doing it together, like a recitation, a ritual against loneliness.
The state's theory of the case is a completely fabricated recitation made up by a troubled young man.
The cornerstone test, Trump 101, is a skimpy recitation of the man's successes that can be purchased for $16.
"It compounds the problem that the proposed piece is not a dispassionate recitation of the facts," the government wrote.
His Odissi solo on Monday, a sort of physical recitation of the form's alphabet, showed real skill and beauty.
The first turned out to be a word-perfect recitation of Leia's complete "help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi" speech.
A 48-hour recitation of Sikh Holy Scriptures will begin on Thursday afternoon, followed by a funeral on Saturday.
His speech, while delivered in a low-key fashion, was nonetheless a thunderous recitation of his "America First" policies.
I am addicted to listening to local radio programs: The national newspapers recitation from 303 to 6:30 a.m.
His most memorable moment was a lengthy recitation of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution at the debate's close.
Here, as at several other key points of dramatic tension in his recitation, the audience broke out into applause.
I use one-on-one consultations with students that follow what I call a recitation-observation-intention-revision format.
A raft of academic research has found that a simple recitation of facts often fails to change people's minds.
With Trump, however, the recitation of positive facts and figures sounded like a full-throated refutation of his critics.
It's part old-time public recitation, part Hollywood table read, and at points actors stumble over the workmanlike text.
A story is a much more memorable way to leave an impression than the typical dry recitation of your resume.
It's really quite something to see a recitation of her statements to Congress lined up against her statements to DOJ.
"The Deputy Attorney General again rejects Mr. McCabe's recitation of events as inaccurate and factually incorrect," a DOJ spokesperson said.
The work vacillates between discomfort and humor, as she stuffs her mouth with marshmallows, gagging and drooling through the recitation.
The class ended with a recitation of the multiplication tables, as children ran in to look in on their grandmothers.
Ms. Anderson treated the verses of "Always Crashing in the Same Car" as a recitation punctuated by her electric violin.
It is a time for contemplation, devotion and remembrance of God, especially through the reading or recitation of the Quran.
The protest included the recitation of Buddhist, Jewish, Christian and Rastafarian prayers on the lawn outside the domed national landmark.
Overall, the film moves through its beats like a rote recitation, so rapidly that one has no time to adjust.
" One of its recurring tropes is a recitation of 16th-century English poet Thomas Wyatt's poem "I Find No Peace.
I watched all 10 installments, and he talked about something that wasn't a direct recitation of plot points maybe twice.
For a couple of hours after that, the session was relatively calm — albeit a recitation of alternate versions of reality.
Instead, the tone will be academic, a recitation of the merits of impeachment, its history and its purpose in democracy.
He was initially nominated in 2003 and faced fierce opposition for his unusually strident and blunt recitation of conservative dogma.
Gretchen talks him into doing it, leading to a public recitation of his father's handwritten obituary by an old guy friend.
The movie takes the same structure as the first film, and makes it feel less like homage and more like recitation.
But some—including a Democratic senator's recitation of a talking point from a lefty conspiracy blog—was more consequential than that.
Especially excellent is "Swinburne's Pasiphae," a video by Mary Reid Kelley replete with her signature hand-drawn style and stagy recitation.
His smugness and combativeness eventually gave way to a mechanical recitation of rehearsed soundbite snippets ostensibly provided by his legal counsel.
The More menu also has search and lookup commands for selected words, as well as a text-to-speech recitation feature.
It was made with earnest care and honorable intentions, and concludes with a recitation of one of Charles Bukowski's best poems.
He first offered a lengthy and seemingly out-of-place recitation of his accomplishments on the economy, trade and job creation.
On national television a gala show will feature recitation of poems on counter-virus efforts instead of the usual music and dancing.
Lest you think Tuesday's speech was a dry recitation of facts, Trump used story elements to move listeners in a new way.
She believed that she had a responsibility to help women especially understand Islam and for that reason was studying tajweed — Quran recitation.
When it takes over a firm he leads new executives in a recitation of HNA's core values, which include "love and devotion".
The audience listens to a recording of Mr. Ashley's recitation of the text while watching the modest yet enrapturing, ever-changing staging.
Known in Turkish as the "ezan," this intricate, melodic recitation is a quintessential marker of daily life, inviting the devout to pray.
The report also documented an ISIS-run Quran recitation contest in the city, which advertised sex slaves as prizes for the winners.
Since my father was not concerned with his image, he would probably not object to the recitation of my wounded child's grievances.
Watching his farewell address, what was most offensive to me was his recitation of his superficial chant from 6900: Yes we can!
The saying also surfaced, pluralized, in "Breathless," via a recorded spoken-word recitation by Mr. Blanchard's son, who goes by JRei Oliver.
Trump's recitation of regret wasn't so much a ruthless Saul to Apostle Paul transformation as an inverted Jekyll and Hyde monstrous illusion.
Sanders badly missed the mark when he tried to turn the coronavirus conversation into a recitation of his Medicare for All program.
She won prizes for Quranic recitation at their mosque, adopted the hijab, organized Muslim students at her high school for Friday prayer.
Mr. Taylor unspooled the story during a dramatic 40-minute recitation in a secure room in the Capitol, as lawmakers listened silently.
Mauritania is an Islamic republic, with rich traditions in poetry and recitation that belie its dismal rates of literacy and economic growth.
Mueller's final report included a detailed recitation of facts, but its conclusions were deliberately obtuse, which meant they changed almost nobody's mind.
The polymorphic ensemble, which assembles onstage in anonymous, contemporary street clothes, includes a beatboxer (Vaneeka Dadhria) to set the rhythm for recitation.
One only has to look at their recitation of Russian-influenced talking points that blame Ukraine for hacking the election in 2016.
It contained the same callbacks to notable administration accomplishments and dutiful recitation of policy proposals that every State of the Union does.
The answer Clinton chose instead — a long recitation of her record calling for tougher regulation of Wall Street — dodged the actual allegation.
A public recitation of his findings -- or even the toplines -- coming from the man himself would be a useful act of public education.
Warren appeared to use her depth of knowledge to answer the questions instead of shamelessly bridging to a recitation of her past accomplishments.
"What you see in the book is not just a factual recitation, but also a lot of spin on the ball," he said.
"The Deputy Attorney General again rejects Mr. McCabe's recitation of events as inaccurate and factually incorrect," the Justice Department said in a statement.
We rushed to Ali's motorcycle, on the way overhearing phone conversations, whispers, and live-recitation of tweets and Facebook comments from other passersby.
This is not its first religous use in modern times; there was a one-off Koranic recitation in the building in April 2015.
Try this, from his headlong recitation of close combat in the Mohmand Valley, on what is now the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
" The other side: A DOJ spokesman commented on McCabe's interview, saying Rosenstein "rejects Mr. McCabe's recitation of events as inaccurate and factually incorrect.
First, Ronald (Lefty) Leftwich, for Norfolk, came to the lectern, without notes, and, in an otherwise flawless recitation, stumbled, and forgot a line.
So rather than seeing a straightforward recitation of an artist's biography, viewers can engage with the ideas that most inspired an individual project.
What is particularly fascinating about this book is that its encyclopedic project is not a rewriting of history but a recitation of readings.
To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our most prominent places of honor is an inaccurate recitation of our full past.
The parents attended Mass and took communion daily, and they gathered their six sons and daughter nightly for a recitation of the rosary.
The rapper also treated listeners to a recitation of a new poem titled, "The Other Side," which he penned en route to the performance.
She closed by sharing a moving recitation of a Muslim prayer, a simple, everyday act of devotion that has become highly politicized, even fraught.
Once you finish all 10, conclude the decade with a Glory Be. But don't think of the rosary as an exercise in blind recitation.
A mere recitation of the facts would be anti-dramatic, less faithful to the emotional event even while being more precise to the actuality.
"The Deputy Attorney General again rejects Mr. McCabe's recitation of events as inaccurate and factually incorrect," a spokesperson for the Department of Justice said.
It certainly seems to be important in memory, and not merely the mnemonic recitation of lists, to which my wife and many others resort.
Clinton's leadership and a statesmanlike lecture on her approach to issues evolved into an angrier recitation of grievances against Mr. Sanders and his fervent supporters.
Trump, speaking at the United Nations also on Tuesday, criticized China for its trade practices, and offered a thunderous recitation of his "America First" policies.
After the cast reads out loud the ten possible acts of obstruction, Zachary Quinto's recitation of Attorney General Barr's summary sounds more misleading than ever.
The judge, Vanessa Velasquez, walked her through the recitation, Albritton recalls, but never asked why she couldn't stop crying long enough to speak in sentences.
This has led to projects like Freedom Seders in Hebron, Sukkot against Demolitions, and the recitation of Kaddish, the Jewish mourners prayer, for Gaza's victims.
This year I'm particularly excited about Trajal Harrell's mashup of postmodern dance and voguing and Paul Lazar's choreographed recitation of John Cage's one-minute stories.
Ms. Soper's setting takes a dryly literal approach, with recorded sounds of a spinning top mixing with scrambled phrases and her own live, fragmented, recitation.
Earlier this year, a 17-year-old student in Louisiana sued her school district for beginning the day with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.
The only mention of face masks, which no one was wearing, came during the recitation about what to do if the cabin lost air pressure.
When they sang along, it was in a unified hum, reminding Mr. Buffett of the recitation of prayers in church during his altar boy days.
Symbols were introduced to orchestrate the all-important recitation of its contents: indicators of where to pause, where to place emphasis, how to pronounce words.
I came to understand that while I was being held in the JAWI headquarters, listening to a loud Quranic recitation coming from the next room.
The 51-year-old has tweeted that she is "very, very happy," and apologized for mispronouncing some Arabic words during her recitation of the Azan.
The fashion portion of the evening ended with a recitation of the Frank O'Hara poem "Avenue A" by the Tony Award-winning actor Alex Sharp.
As pope, he condemned Mafia activity during a ceremony in Rome and listened to a recitation of the names of 800 people killed by organized crime.
Instead, as Trump and Cruz parried, Rubio interjected, not with a transcendent moment, but with a familiar recitation of a relevant portion of his stump speech.
MINNEAPOLIS – A Minnesota teenager who became the first American to win a prestigious Quran recitation contest will travel to Somalia to meet the country&aposs president.
It included a more detailed recitation of the facts of Jane Poe's situation and her interactions with shelter staff, doctors and nurses, and a social worker.
The ruling said these examples "are illustrative" but "not a comprehensive recitation" of comments the judge made and articles he shared online that referred to Trump.
As soon as the week ended, I dashed home for the company, food, and the rhythms of recitation and prayer only a traditional Ramadan could bring.
The transition from those allegations -- which Trump vehemently denies -- to a recitation of why he is innocent of all the other allegations against him is telling.
"He emphasized that we have to still show up for recitation to get the 33 on the quiz but he was happy for us," she said.
"Still Brazy" is an artisanal, proletarian Los Angeles gangster rap record, less tribute to the sound's golden age than a full-throated and wholly absorbed recitation.
Some answer every challenge with a recitation of the First Amendment, as if its forty-five words were a magic spell that could settle any debate.
It won't quite be a play or a straight recitation of the celebrated book, which won the National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
"The trial's just been a recitation of a corruption soup and all the ingredients," John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, a government watchdog group, said.
According to the London-based weekly newspaper The Jewish Chronicle, Rabbi Taub was once asked why the recitation of the Shema Yisrael prayer was so important.
His speech also included a promise to throw undocumented immigrants "the hell out of the country" and a recitation of his law-and-order campaign promises.
But, Wattley says, parole-board hearings are too unpredictable for any rote recitation to be effective — the insights have to be genuine and personal to work.
She opened a Trump rally in Florida in February with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer, speaking of daily bread despite her aura of nightly caviar.
And this ghostly, reproachful recitation of Brooks's elegy to doomed youth shatters the composure of a woman for whom self-possession is as essential as oxygen.
He thought that, true to the associations of the word, a recital should be a musical recitation, a selection of works exploring a theme or narrative.
"Song For" (Delmark), his first album, recorded in 20173, included a track called "Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City," constructed around his recitation of a poem.
What made that message singularly effective wasn't Romney's recitation of what was, at the time, Republican boilerplate — it was where he recited it and to whom.
A drawn-out recitation of "Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe" ends with one major character's head smashed like a watermelon by Lucille, Negan's barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat.
The brief does not dispute Judge Furman's recitation of the facts preceding DOJ's letter asking the Commerce Department to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
If you're a job-seeker, think of your LinkedIn profile shifting from a recitation of your education and experience to a long list of competencies and levels.
For example, the film identified as "Film/Epilogue" is a recitation of the words of Stan Brakhage, Jim Jarmusch, Lars von Trier, Werner Herzog, and Lebbeus Woods.
But well before they meet cute in a Venetian gondola, the narrative bogs down in a recitation of power plays between the embattled republican and loyalist factions.
That recitation included poses of languorous temple maidens, so that Mr. Subramaniam was subverting gender binaries, an idea with ancient Indian roots that also counts as trendy.
Song, choral recitation and stylized movement dress up this production, but it mostly relies on the three performers, connecting as a unit and committing to this world.
When you open the app, you're immediately welcomed by a recorded recitation of a Biblical verse — like the opening of a meditation — and a glossy, calming interface.
Indeed, impervious to the recitation of personal tragedies and professional difficulties, enduring for hundreds of years after it was composed, his music seems all the more exalted.
And they conveyed the quality suggested in Henze's intriguing description of "El Cimarrón" as more like a collective recitation than a dramatic piece for an accompanied singer.
His name means son of an imam, and his fluent recitation of the Quran during a campaign visit to a mosque swiftly went viral on social media.
Some on the plane tried to figure out the entertainment system on their screens (one found his way to an Indian movie, another to a Quran recitation).
I took Chinese classes in college, and the professor's MO was recitation and pop quizzes, so given the choice, I prefer the $4.99 a month standard Viki pass.
In 1949, King of Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud introduced radio stations to the country, with a recitation of the Holy Qur'an as the first broadcast to hit airwaves.
WASHINGTON — For seven years, the official Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address was a careful recitation of Republican principles and attacks on the president.
Yet for the moment, minus the politics and recitation of the inadequacies in our society, we pause to celebrate fabulous gift given to these hard working young men.
As a rapt audience listens in on the stark recitation, the combination of Wiedersheim's physical interaction with the keys and her instrumental manipulation of the typewriter is enthralling.
Sunday's recitation in front of the White House will be the closing event of this year's Creative Time Summit in Washington, DC, three days of art and activism.
They would get homework, too, in honor of black history month: a recitation by memory before the church, and it couldn't be a Martin Luther King speech, either.
Alexander Hamilton argued that the Constitution's invocation of "we the people" better protected what he suggestively called "popular rights" than their formal recitation in a Bill of Rights.
" Doe didn't comply with the Bruin's instructions, and told the police what happened, though the Bruin allegedly "remained on the scene... interfering with Ms. Doe's recitation of events.
The 71-page report released by the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is a recitation of decades of bigotry, directed first at African slaves and later at African-Americans.
Trump had savaged all his fellow Republicans and yet here they were listening to an unending recitation of his crimes and coming out to be his Praetorian guard.
Thornton Wilder's portrait of small-town American life in a cosmic context is written in plain and forthright prose that grows in power in the recitation of it.
Thornton Wilder's portrait of small-town American life in a cosmic context is written in plain and forthright prose that grows in power in the recitation of it.
Moreover, because the underlying facts potentially indicate behavior warranting impeachment, many members of Congress are sure to demand a recitation of the Mueller report's facts and its underlying documents.
Then Mr. Jennings, whose Broadway credits include "Urinetown" and "Side Show," made the sign of the cross, folded his hands for a flickering instant and began his energetic recitation.
He presented a comprehensive and compelling recitation of the president's breaches of the Constitution and abuse of power on a remarkable scale, which continued with equal force on Wednesday.
Even if the President doesn't know every word to the National Anthem, it shouldn't actually be a huge deal -- a song recitation shouldn't be a prerequisite for the presidency.
More than 2,300 monks and nuns and another 3,000 laymen attended the foundation's two days of speeches, recitation and donation ceremonies at a monastery in the north of Yangon.
For all these reasons, it will be crucial for the attorney general to provide Congress as full a recitation of the facts contained in the special counsel's report as possible.
Yet the key moment came prior to that, when Tyrion (Peter Dinklage, superb as always) first grieved over his fallen brother, then led Jon through a recitation of Daenerys' ruthlessness.
You may have to sit through their recitation of beloved but unprovable conspiracy theories, but pick your battles and know when to save energy on questioning these types of things.
The speech Donald Trump planned to give on Monday—billed essentially as a recitation of everything Republicans hate about Hillary Clinton—was originally intended to rally and calm nervous Republicans.
It was the kids who could take a Maya Angelou or Emily Dickinson poem and blow our hair back with a recitation that made me seem like a great teacher.
But the labor strife has been especially dispiriting in Baltimore, a city whose woes need no recitation but which had always seen its orchestra as an embodiment of its pluck.
Simonides was giving a recitation in the dining hall of the house of Scopas, a Thessalian nobleman, when he was called outside because two strangers wanted to speak to him.
" The track is "I Thought About Killing You," much of which is a spoken-word recitation about murderous and suicidal impulses over a cappella voices intoning, "I know, I know.
SACRAMENTO – The State of the State address is usually the annual opportunity for a governor to offer a ritualistic recitation of accomplishments and detail-laden goals for the year ahead.
Predictable question, followed by a predictable answer – a recitation by Sanders of the merits of a $15 minimum wage, free college tuition and a green new deal, among other things.
One of the most shocking selections is "Our Darkness," a track that the English poet Anne Clark originally released in 1984, reimagined here as an urgent recitation over theatrical piano.
Sinacori regaled a small crowd of interested residents and history buffs with a call-and-response-like recitation of the origins of almost every street name in the eastside neighborhoods.
But for others, the questioning of administration officials over Iran appeared to be a charade for political showmanship, a recitation of questions that had been answered repeatedly already in other briefings.
In remarks that lasted more than 40 minutes, Mr. Trump also blended his standard recitation of strong poll numbers with sharpened attack lines against Mr. Cruz, his top competitor in Iowa.
Streep also impressed with her absorption and recitation of the information about her colleagues' birthplaces and upbringings, certainly not bad for someone who apparently hasn't performed on the stage since 2006.
It's more interesting than a dry recitation of the facts and to have a pro and a con, even if they really aren't two sides, is sort of a natural way.
Clinton's remarks received little in-depth coverage in the news media, while cable channels went live with Mr. Trump's rat-a-tat recitation of "Crooked Hillary," his favored nickname for her.
He seemed happy rapping bits of his old hit "Boyfriend" and leading the crowd in a recitation of "Baby," one of his first hits, from six years and six lifetimes ago.
Rosie Binge, Anne's sister and Gorsuch's aunt and godmother, said her parents ferried their seven children to Mass every morning, and dinner was followed by a family recitation of the Rosary.
I hadn't spoken with humans save my contacts on the colonies for several weeks and thus his preamble and recitation of the Orphic Hymn to Pluto struck me as an hallucination.
But even as he impressed with the fluency of his Quranic recitation and easily made friends, Mr. Zaharan confronted his teachers and accused them of failing to adhere to true Islam.
For in the end, what will illuminate this newly acquired knowledge — and make cocktail-party conversation fun, rather than a numbing act of recitation — is the unique bend of your mind.
His town hall events last year frequently began with a lengthy recitation of people he met, where he'd met them and what he ate in the towns where he met them.
" But Dallas Police Chief David Brown's simple recitation of the lyrics to Stevie Wonder's 1976 single "As" made it all too palpable how much the city "will be loving [them] always.
Even now, I can barely mention DeVito's name – you'd be surprised how often he comes up — without inspiring a recitation of the line, because everyone I know is 25 and an idiot.
Of course, patriotism and unity weren't exactly what Colin Kaepernick was concerned with in the fall of 2016 when he helped make the seemingly banal recitation of the national song so contentious.
His teacher, Abboud Kodi, told me that in fifth grade, when students were just being introduced to the English alphabet, Abdulbari would make the recitation of all of his studies in English.
Held in the Palace Throne Room, the civil ceremony lasted only 15 minutes but ended with a 25-minute long recitation of the more than 140 formal titles Grace acquired by marriage.
So the most striking part of the whole presentation was a lie, a recitation of anecdotes designed to mislead Americans about immigration and gin up anti-immigrant sentiment to score political points.
As is often the case, the Monday night rally was more of a Trumpian stream of consciousness than a recitation of the official text sitting on the teleprompter in front of him.
House Democratic leaders continue to focus on securing Mr. Mueller's public testimony, convinced that even a straight recitation of his findings before television cameras could have a significant effect on public opinion.
"Today while Democrats bemoan our current federal government, let us remember F.D.R.'s example: that it is not enough for Democrats to criticize," he said, after a recitation of his own accomplishments.
In place of the film's stunning ending, he has Ms. Sinha (who also sings several times) lead members of the audience in a group recitation of bureaucratic suggestions for increasing audience diversity.
This approach seemed to suit President Trump just fine, as he welcomed a rote recitation of China's longstanding rejection of a nuclear North Korea and failed to extract new concessions or promises.
It is his exuberant recitation of his origin story, of learning the ropes from his father (while his mother studied at medical school in India) and confronting bias and bigotry in America.
All three fathers had attended the same extremist Quranic recitation group, according to the East Java police, and on occasion they brought their wives and children with them to the indoctrination sessions.
According to lawmakers, the gathering included a recitation of lyrics from "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," a Gordon Lightfoot song about a sinking ship, which was likened to the Senate's stumble.
" As a reviewer in São Paulo wrote admiringly, "The text was acted in plain mode — no verbal excesses or unnecessary shouting, just a harmonious recitation of words combined with essential corporal movement.
But Democrats and legal observers have argued that the facts in the report are bad enough — and that even a public recitation of those details could help raise awareness of Mueller's findings.
Before Obama's remarks, a man and woman did a recitation from the Quran, then an honor guard of two boys and two girls carried the American and Maryland state flags into the mosque.
Someone present covertly filmed his recitation of the poem, which was broadly critical of governments across the region, and uploaded it to YouTube, where it was widely circulated, Amnesty said in a statement.
One of the show's funniest monologues was his recitation of a lengthy, fictional music review, replete with academic jargon and bogus literary allusions that sounded authentic until it morphed into pretentious absurdist nonsense.
Long before President Trump escalated the debate over protests during the national anthem, two Texas teenagers began challenging injustice in their own way, by sitting through the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
His famous admirers included Issac Asimov, a science-fiction writer, and a taste for the nerdy was always a hallmark: one popular song was a jauntily rhyming recitation of all of the chemical elements.
Unlike his unwavering faith in A Charlie Brown Christmas, which included the famous recitation of Luke 2:8-14, the other kids think Linus's faith in the Great Pumpkin is just a sad joke.
Asked to offer examples of how he uses Alexa every day, Prasad mentions waking in the morning to news and weather on demand, plus a recitation of the traffic patterns and his daily calendar.
The Islamic model for the ruqya (exorcism) parallels features of the Rituale Romanum: recitation of scripture (traditionally, the final surahs of the Qur'an, called the Al-Mu'awwidhatayn), prayers to Allah, and sprinkling holy water.
In his restless search for a new poetic language, Mr. Antin began experimenting in the early 22011s with a style of performance that was part lecture, part stand-up routine and part Homeric recitation.
Descriptions of Napoleon resemble a listless thesaurus recitation of the word remote, so I often resort to numbers to illustrate its lilliputian properties: zero stop lights, two bars, three gas stations, and four churches.
I'd like to suggest, though, that maybe the best role for wine critics is not the tedious recitation of bottle reviews, and that maybe consumers are less helped by them than we might think.
Many Democrats wore black to convey solidarity with the #MeToo movement, sitting steely-eyed through Mr. Trump's recitation of feats and grumbling loudly as he attributed violent crimes to an "open borders" immigration policy.
Deadly shootings in schools — that is, the killing of children in sanctuaries of learning — have become a distinctly American ritual, the rote responses as familiar as a kindergarten recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The high point, of course, is the dialogue between a child actor (Julia Butters) and her man-child co-star (Leonardo DiCaprio) that's about writing, reading and recitation, about the intoxicants of pulp storytelling.
Between the lines: Trump's attacks are "a straight recitation of a Fox segment" from earlier Saturday morning, also claiming living conditions at border facilities are better than in most districts, says MMFA reporter Matthew Gertz.
More than just a rote recitation of concepts, OharaLibrarianArtur went to the next level and pulled screenshots from the game, and added some of his own graphics, to help players learn how Super Smash Bros.
His constant recitation of poll numbers is a staple in his stump speeches and he now repeatedly mentions the increased percentage of vote totals in Republican primaries as opposed to decreases on the Democratic side.
It began with a bathing ritual using royally-bestowed water and an eight-sided urn lent as an honor by King Maha Vajiralongkorn, and was followed by recitation ceremonies which will last for seven days.
In her later years, Angelou made a recording of herself reading the poem — her famous husky drawl measured and stately — but here, Williams animates Angelou's words with a charismatic recitation that is all her own.
" Catland has held three packed ceremonies to hex Trump, which involve the use of "cursing ingredients" as well as the recitation of Psalm 109: "Let his days be few, and let another take his office.
I don't know how other interviewers handle the rote recitation; I had the luxury of just hmmhmm-ing through it while I read ahead in my notes or doodled in the margins of my notebook.
The details of the case hardly require recitation for a certain parental class in New York City, for whom crime long ago had become almost invisible and for whom child rearing had become an obsession.
With survivors still grappling with life-altering physical and psychological wounds, community leaders have announced events to honor those affected, including a sunrise ceremony and a recitation of the names of the 58 people killed.
Mr Murphy's path to the Supreme Court began five weeks ago, when he told his lawyer he wanted his spiritual adviser by his side to guide his recitation of a Buddhist chant during his execution. Rev.
But there's nothing more guaranteed to whip the entire Farm into a frenzy than a stark recitation of a sequence of events that makes it way too obvious who fired the first shot, and the last.
This is a guy who opened his presidency by invoking "American carnage" and whose rally repertoire includes a parody of being "presidential" and a recitation of a song about a woman being killed by a snake.
Her quip about the border wall was almost a verbatim recitation of then-DHS Secretary Kelly's remarks from earlier that year and Trump himself had been pushing Congress to find a long-term answer to DACA.
As she told us in an interview, Pence's evaluation of her fervor was followed by a recitation of her supposed sins, including her attendance at a wild party at the fraternity where Pence was in charge.
It's worth noting, though, that Schiff did say he was offering the "essence" of Trump's words, not a verbatim recitation, and that at least some of Schiff's comments closely resembled what the rough transcript shows Trump said.
" But in guidance from the state's Department of Education from 2006, public schools were told that "students not participating in the recitation of the Pledge may stand and refrain from reciting the Pledge or may remain seated.
Pullman told Complex that he researched various acclaimed speeches from the 20th century to inform his recitation, drawing particular inspiration from a speech Robert Kennedy made shortly after finding out Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot.
He mocked Mr. Dukakis for being a "card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U." and attacked him for refusing to sign a Massachusetts bill mandating that teachers lead students in a daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
On his last album, "You Want It Darker," released less than a month ago, Mr. Cohen's voice had descended to a husky recitation, cushioned by choirs and string arrangements but as fearlessly flinty as ever, our critic writes.
There was, instead, a matter-of-fact assessment of his own diminished position in the race, followed by an equally unsparing recitation of the policy challenges Mr. Sanders intended to put to Mr. Biden in the coming days.
The president used the closed-door meeting in the Capitol for a rambling, unscripted recitation of his legislative priorities, and repeated his intention to make the subject of health care a major issue over the next two years.
On a day initially billed as a dry recitation of constitutional theory, Democrats instead launched a multimedia barrage featuring the president's own allies, advisers and even his favored TV network as they tried to undermine his anticipated defense.
Sanders still peppers his foreign-policy remarks with a long recitation of America's anti-democratic history, especially in Latin America and the Middle East, during the Cold War, and the worst mistakes of the post-9/11 era.
" The most elaborate celebrations feature pipers marching in with a haggis (a traditional concoction of minced offal, oatmeal and spices) to a standing ovation, and a recitation by the host of Burns's praise-filled "Address to a Haggis.
" To be sure, critics often turn out to be wrong, as Scott wittily reminds you during a recitation of some notorious critical gaffes: early and wince-inducing takedowns of John Keats's poetry, of "Moby-Dick," of "Bringing Up Baby.
This was the meta-narrative of Bill Clinton's speech: He managed to sugarcoat a numbing recitation of how hard Hillary Clinton has worked, how many policies she's learned and changed, with just enough love story to keep people listening.
" And yet, Kermani continues, "the application of the verses almost always conformed to the rules" so that, "in spite of the differences in form and content between his recitation and poetry, many Meccans initially took Muhammad for a poet.
Compared with Warren's detailed agenda to partly reorder the economy to correct the imbalance against women, workers, and racial minorities, Sanders risks sounding like he's providing a recitation of idealistic generalities that most of us already understand and share.
In the president's recitation of anniversaries we'll commemorate in 2202 — such as 2628 years since the Apollo 28500 moon landing and 6900 years since D-Day — he failed to mention the 2628 years that blacks have survived American capitalism.
Lawsuits to end the recitation of the Pledge in public schools began almost as soon as the words "under God" were added, and while "ceremonial deism" long thwarted those challenges, nonbelievers have lately begun to pursue a different strategy.
The Seder (which means "order" in Hebrew) is held on the first two nights of the holiday; the ceremonial meal involves the recitation of the Exodus story, a standard set of songs, and plenty of ritualized eating and drinking.
To literally put the confederacy on a pedestal in our most prominent places of honor is an inaccurate recitation of our full past, it is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future.
A recitation about global inequality — "the richest ravage the global environment by producing waste, while the poorest destroy their resources by lack of choice" — can at first hit like pro forma critique from one of cinema's most dedicated leftists.
A lawyer for the producer, Scott Rudin, countered that it was "never expected that the play would merely be the recitation of the novel from the stage," and that the script doesn't depart from the spirit of the novel.
The agency cited individuality in a recitation of its "Core Principles," which also included a focus on the retail investor, keeping pace with technological change, imposing remedies that most effectively further enforcement goals, and assessing the allocation of resources.
Given that he does not have a majority in Parliament to pass legislation and is lobbying for a general election, the speech, they said, was less a recitation of the government's agenda than a manifesto for the Conservative Party.
The California Democrat kicked off a hearing with Zuckerberg by launching into a fiery recitation of problems dogging Facebook beyond the Libra digital currency and even suggested that the company was too big and powerful for the country's good.
What seemed doting in his voice may seem sharp or critical or canned in hers, and his recitation of her endless admirable qualities may seem more like flattery than mourning when the woman is standing quite vividly right there.
"Because of our negligence, a gang of war criminals, guilty of unspeakable things, namely—" Here their translators failed, and the recitation of crimes came as a series of clicks, coughs, and trills that nevertheless retained the enchantment of their voices.
Though the show is likely to be criticized by some for not being a literal recitation of the facts of a very complicated case, the core concepts about the injustice and unfairness which pervaded the handling of the case are accurate.
If one is reading a passage, say, of James Baldwin or Ta-Nehisi Coates that contains the N-word, one's recitation of the word does not refer to any particular person; it is simply repeating the word in an abstract context.
But Schiff never purported to be reading "the exact transcribed version" of Trump's call with the president of Ukraine; Schiff introduced his comments by saying he would be giving "the essence of what the president communicates," not a verbatim recitation.
As members of the Turkish military sought control of the country, Turks began hearing both the ezan and the "sela" ("salat al-janazah" in Arabic)—a prayerful recitation asking forgiveness for Muslims who have died—in a cacophony that lasted hours.
Battle Royale meets the Bachelor But beyond its Battle Royale meets The Bachelor premise, The Lobster also suggests a world where adults have learned to socialize from a wikiHow manual, discussing their hobbies and likes and dislikes with dispassionate recitation.
"To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our more prominent places -- in honor -- is an inaccurate recitation of our full past, is an affront to our present and it is a bad prescription for our future," he said.
"To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our more prominent places -- in honor -- is an inaccurate recitation of our full past, is an affront to our present and it is a bad prescription for our future," Landrieu said.
Dining room captains, who used to growl nothing more complicated than a recitation of table numbers and seat positions to their back waiters, now apparently hold forth, in unbroken paragraphs, on the existential meaning of simply being hungry during a shift.
America's streets are filled with cries of "black lives matter," and America continues to insist through its actions in these cases that they don't, that that is a lamentation of hopeful ideals rather than a recitation of a national reality.
There's a hierarchy, in life and in writing, that moves from clever, to smart, to wise, and in Tillman's hands, Zeke's recitation moves up and down this register continually, until he comes to seem as real to us as a hologram.
He sat grim-mouthed, eyes cast downward, as Andrew Weissmann, the lead prosecutor on his case, read through what Judge Amy Berman Jackson of United States District Court called the longest recitation of offenses she had ever heard in her courtroom.
The Hammer Museum's In Real Life includes four monthlong, curated film and video exhibitions, 15 weekends of performances and durational, immersive works, as well as weekday rehearsals by a select group of performers including theater, dance, music, and experimental recitation.
" When Barack Obama's eulogy was organized around a recitation of McCain's principles, what contrast could Obama have possibly been drawing: "John cared about the institutions of self-government — our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, rule of law and separation of powers.
MUSIC BEFORE 2250 Always a trove of fascinating corners of the repertory, this series opens with Benjamin Bagby's dramatic recitation of "Beowulf" and includes the medieval groups Alkemie and Ensemble Correspondances, which specializes in the music of 2219th-century France.
It was a decided departure from Trump's freewheeling campaign speeches and Twitter talk, a more measured recitation of his accomplishments in his first three years in office as he looks to run for and win a second term this fall.
"To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our most prominent places of honor is an inaccurate recitation of our full past, it is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future," he said.
Jason Crow, D-Colorado, to the seamless recitation of the witness testimony from the House hearings was all interspersed with the same point: witnesses and documents would answer any outstanding questions you, the senators (or viewers at home) have remaining.
At various points during our meetings, she burst into a bellowing recitation of Dylan Thomas at a bar ("Time held me green and dying/Though I SANG IN MY CHAINS LIKE THE SEA"!) and impressively committed to mimicking a squirrel.
" One of the greatest hits of Trump's stump speech — a bit so classic that, by this point in the campaign, he's taken to making his audiences beg him to repeat it — is the recitation of the lyrics of "The Snake.
Nonfiction was the second-to-last award of the night, and when Coates won, to prolonged applause, he gave a speech that was a kind of recitation of his book's searing theme, and that made noticeable use of the first-person plural.
As the Cato Institute put it in an amicus brief supporting the CPCs, the "compulsory recitation of government-selected facts" has nothing to do with "professional speech": it could be delivered "just as competently by anyone who is not a licensed physician".
A young woman rides a bike off into the sun as we are told that Latuda has been shown to be effective for many people with bipolar depression, followed by that staccato recitation of potential side effects that most viewers tune out.
That speech, which Barber encouraged the audience to listen to in its entirety, contains King's recitation of the history of populism and the ways that racism disadvantaged both black and white poor people—the points that Barber has been reiterating across the country.
Consider the tactic developed by Trump to make a key point: his recitation of "The Snake," a poem he has turned to at public events that capitalizes on the widespread fear that a liberal agenda will lead the nation onto dangerous terrain.
Both men, like much of the audience, could be seen doubling over in laughter at some of the play's comic high points, including a scene where a recitation of the rosary is interrupted by a spectacularly messy bit of bodily stage business.
The therapeutic value of art is an important subject, and it's heartwarming to see the spunk of children like Tain Gregory, who auditions with a lively recitation of Lewis Carroll, or Sammy Vertucci, who describes the challenges of playing a magical creature.
During a tour of revolutionary sites in 2017, Mr. Xi and the other six members of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's highest decision-making body, visited a Shanghai memorial, where Mr. Xi led a recitation of a party oath before a giant flag.
What's strange to me is that he's willing to walk out like a 70-year-old nightclub performer and just riff on whatever's happening in the moment, and then run through his greatest hits, which amounts to a recitation of his victories.
There was nary a boob to be seen in 2016's Hailee Steinfeld vehicle The Edge of Seventeen, but a handful of F-bombs, some scenes of underage drinking, and a recitation of one particularly frank sext were enough to earn the dreaded R rating.
A week after the stabbing, Turner was called to the stand to deliver an hourlong recitation of what had happened the night of the incident, as well as the nature of the relationship she had with her late lover, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Thematically, the speech was more like a rally than a normal State of the Union: almost entirely devoid of concrete new policies, it was instead a recitation of his past year's successes, along with some deeply improbable goals for a Congress heading towards midterm elections.
Illustrating this point required Clinton to run through a nearly 30-minute chronology, year by year, starting in 1971, of their life together—a recitation that drew gentle mockery on social media from reporters (including me) who wondered if he would go on too long.
Anyone who has been to a Catholic Mass or a Pentecostal service, or experienced the recitation of the Quran or a Tibetan Buddhist chant, knows that they couldn't fully be captured by a transcript any more than a song can be by its lyrics.
That is now over: Mr. Taylor's lengthy, calm recitation of each interaction over the summer with his colleagues back in Washington, based on his copious notes, gives a window into policymaking unmatched since the revelation in 2010 of the State Department's internal cables by WikiLeaks.
Kanigel, who has written several books (including a biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, another luminary untrained in his field), here favors recitation over response, unfurling the details of a life rather than grappling too aggressively with the ideas to which it gave birth.
The list is like a recitation of present and future All-Star teams: Francisco Lindor, Xander Bogaerts, Corey Seager, Carlos Correa, Addison Russell, Jonathan Villar, Trea Turner, Marcus Semien, and Almedys Diaz were among their number, as were Tim Anderson, Trevor Story, and Jorge Polanco.
Mr. Apa's Chris, for instance, makes for a bland if earnestly supportive boyfriend, and the film glosses over his troublesome recitation of the tired axiom "I don't see color" when expressing his disappointment with how Starr has kept her connection to the shooting a secret.
In Real Life: Performance showcases both new and re-staged works by artists and performers working in a range of disciplines from theater, dance, and music to experimental recitation, and comedy, taking place most weekends in the Hammer's courtyard, annex, and Billy Wilder Theater.
Yet most of their responses were excerpts pulled from their stump speeches — or in Ben Carson's case, a verbatim recitation of the Preamble to the Constitution — rather than the tit-for-tat exchanges that the Republican debates have become known for in this primary race.
In her book "Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem," Catherine Robson, a professor of English at New York University, explains that poetry recitation was an inexpensive exercise that helped even inexperienced teachers at underfunded schools impart rhetorical skills and nurture moral character.
"The approval of Mr. Sorkin as playwright, among other things, reflected the parties' understanding that the play, while remaining true to the spirit of the novel, would not be a mere recitation of the novel from the stage of the theater," the complaint said.
But the typical briefing memo you will receive for a meeting with foreign leaders is little more than a recitation of desired talking points -- "asks" in department argot -- with no discussion of the sources of American leverage to get other countries to do what we ask.
Chuck Grassley Then, this past week, when faced with questions, Kavanaugh said as little as possible beyond a rote recitation of Supreme Court case law when it came to his legal views and gave stilted answers when asked about responses he gave at previous confirmation hearings.
One senator who attended the lunch described Mnuchin's presentation as at times rambling, and more of a blow-by-blow account of a negotiation Mnuchin "was clearly proud of" than a topline recitation of the pieces of the agreement that would appeal to the gathered lawmakers.
Both are, as the jonatan leandoer127 project always has been, a departure from Yung Lean released: Katla has both touches of bedroom R&B ("Helvetet & Jag") and a spoken word recitation of a passage from literal Paradise Lost set to music, so there's something for everyone!
The neighbor who called firefighters to the scene of the house fire that killed Vidal led the group in the recitation of the rosary, a Catholic tradition meant, in this case, to help a person pass from their earthly life into the peace and tranquility of heaven.
It's not so much an anecdote as a recitation of a musical number from Brooks's formative days as an entertainer — an Al Jolson-esque ditty that he performed in the Army and later on the borscht belt circuit before it became an enduring part of his repertoire.
For example, the siddur tells those unfamiliar with the central Amidah prayer to "take three steps backward, then three steps forward" at the start, and urges a worshiper to "pray loudly enough to hear himself" but not so loudly that its recitation is audible to others.
We know this question may seem uncomfortably close to that infamous back-to-school essay prompt, "What I did on my summer vacation," but we're not asking for a dull recitation of everything that happened from the time school let out to the day you headed back.
The chapter on Socrates, for example, included a brief summary of his life and death, a few descriptive details ("When he spake he wagged his litil fynger"), and a recitation of his various opinions, including his opinion that philosophy should only be transmitted orally, not through books.
"To be clear, the District has not altered the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance and has not prohibited students from deciding on their own, as their own form of self-expression, whether or not to state the words, 'God Bless America,'" the district said in its statement.
Much of what we hear about technology these days is a grim, dystopian recitation of what tech is doing to us: We have become addicted to our screens; our every move is being watched, overheard, recorded, predicted; and malign forces are manipulating us to believe that down is up.
On any given afternoon, you were still likely to encounter headlines about ''illegal aliens'' invading the country, but if you clicked on the link, you landed on an article that was extraordinarily dry — usually just a rundown of some politician's speech, or a dry recitation of governmental statistics.
There is no more disciplined candidate in the 2016 field than the 74-year-old Vermont senator — none — and a quick scan of the transcripts of recent debates reveals his metronomic recitation of succinct anti-Clinton attack phrases repeated over and over and over with deadly, aw-shucks efficiency.
Much of the rest of the day was filled with plodding testimony about debates among the Founding Fathers, discussion of the finer points of President Andrew Johnson's 1865 impeachment, and careful recitation of the definition of "high misdemeanors" from Samuel Johnson's 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language.
There's flat recitation of facts: "One March a few years back, I was in residence at a private women's college in Atlanta," begins a prose piece that summarizes a re-enactment of a 19th-century massacre, and concludes with a dead grandfather galloping along the highway on a horse.
There's flat recitation of facts: "One March a few years back, I was in residence at a private women's college in Atlanta," begins a prose piece that summarizes a re-enactment of a 19th-century massacre, and concludes with a dead grandfather galloping along the highway on a horse.
For all the poise and commitment that the soprano, Tony Arnold, brought to her part — which included languid hummed glissandos and speech-like rhythmic recitation — there was a claustrophobic sense of the text's being smothered by the muted moans and buzzing outbursts that the technically impressive trombonist, Tim Albright, produced.
I considered the power of the sad story I'd shared for all those years with hungry journalists who gobbled my suffering and pushed out content, and the pink-faced politicians brought to the verge of tears by the recitation of my sorrows, who then went out and voted against me.
He opted instead for an unsteady recitation of a general education platform (highlighting the need to "make sure that everybody is better prepared to go onto education — for an education") that concluded with this: "We can't put people in the position where they aren't able to go on and move on."
The show opens with a recitation of the names of those many, many sponsors, but if you stop paying attention — if you get bored and check your phone to see what the Mandarin Duck is doing in the Hudson River, as I did — you have a chance to be reminded later.
Its first single, "I'm the Man," opens with a gentle recitation of Jehnny Beth's poem "A Place Above" by the "Peaky Blinders" star Cillian Murphy ("See the most powerful man raise his hand to tell us a lie/No, no, not another lie") before exploding into a full-blown electronic assault.
The short play ended with the death of GEO Group, Shevitz sprawled out at the feet of the rejoicing king, Mordecai, and Esther, followed by the Mourner's Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, and the recitation of the names of individuals who died in ICE custody over the past year.
After his recitation of the Pentagon Papers, Gravel pretty much disappeared from the news, surfacing once in a failed bid for vice president, once in a successful effort to rename Mount McKinley and once in a supposed sex-for-votes scandal involving an escort, a houseboat and a parking-garage project.
While the events of the week's news cycle didn't make it into the text, Trump did opt to take a victory lap on the economy—the first half of the speech was a rote recitation of massaged, manipulated, and outright invented statistics about the growth his administration did little to bring about.
Based on Judge Marra's recitation of the facts, plaintiffs' lawyers will be able to show jurors incriminating evidence that Chiquita made a calculated business decision to pay off paramilitary groups - instead of working with the Colombian government to oppose their crimes or pulling up stakes in Colombia – and cover up the payments.
" Speaking to voters in Macomb County in March 1992, he offered a near-­verbatim recitation of Greenberg's proposal: "The one thing that it's going to take to bring this country together is somebody's got to come back to the so-­called Reagan Democratic area and say: 'Look, I'll give you your values back.
While many Republicans have changed their minds on the president, few have swerved with Mr. Cruz's performative zeal — consistent with a career that has included a recitation of "Green Eggs and Ham" on the Senate floor and the selection of a running mate, Carly Fiorina, six days before dropping out in 2016.
Behind him hung a Canadian flag and beside him sat his son, Adam, a musician who had served as producer on the stirring LP. At one point Cohen, stooped and frail but sharp as ever in an impeccably tailored black suit, treated the audience to a recitation from a piece still in progress.
That is a theme that Mr. Trump has advertised at mass rallies with his recitation of "The Snake," a poem that he has turned into a parable of refugee treachery about a kindly woman who takes in a wounded reptile and is repaid with a venomous bite: "I saved you," cried that woman.
The less outrageous segments of the plan simply shoehorn other policy positions into proposals for black people, with divisive statements like, "No group has been more economically harmed by decades of illegal immigration than low-income African-American workers" and the recitation of stump speech lines on trade, infrastructure, and job creation.
For those seeking a philosophical treatise on the "why" of black death at the hands of police, or a recitation of the broader story of the modern-day civil rights struggle known as Black Lives Matter, "They Can't Kill Us All" offers more questions than answers; and little in the way of psychic comfort.
He appears occasionally in the news for his acts of public disruption, such as throwing horse manure at the Brooklyn Museum when it displayed a painting of the Virgin Mary stained with elephant dung, or illegally painting an American flag on a school whose principal had discontinued the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Gates, clean-shaven and wearing a grey suit and light blue tie, stood glumly in the courtroom on Tuesday morning listening to Judge Amy Berman Jackson deliver a damning recitation of his own behavior, including how he lied and cheated before providing hundreds of hours of devastating testimony against his own former friends and colleagues.
He worked a quasi-comedy gimmick which clashed in all the right ways with how good he was in the ring; his legendary recitation of the 1004 holds he'd mastered is one of the high points of the era and he regularly had matches which tore the house down with men like Dean Malenko and Eddie Guerrero.
A scene of him in a pub, being forced by a British soldier to dance a jig, ranks with Jude Fawley's anguished recitation of the Nicene Creed for the entertainment of the rowdy, taunting drinkers in Hardy's "Jude the Obscure"; Lee's prologue, an account of the initiation head game required for Dan's acceptance into the Provos, is equally horrifying.
Similarly, the Philadelphia-based Langenheim brothers (Frederick and William, immigrants from Germany) come across as energetic if not always successful go-getters, making both daguerreotypes and salt-paper prints, patenting their own glass-negative process, and even staging a magic-lantern entertainment (apparently the first to use photography) about the glories of Niagara Falls, which included a recitation read to a pianist's accompaniment.
"To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our more prominent places -- in honor -- is an inaccurate recitation of our full past, is an affront to our present and it is a bad prescription for our future," said Landrieu, the city's first white mayor since 1978, who is in his final term presiding over a city that is 18933% African-American.
He may, like most writers, aspire to aphorism ("envy being best understood as empathy gone wrong"), but, by the nature of its brevity, aphorism is evidence-free, and what Amis enjoys most—outside those priestly moments of Bellow recitation—is offering the proof of things: opening up the patient, putting the organs on the table, and taking a poke at the evidence.
Even so, Biden opened the evening with a sober tone and factual recitation of measures he wants to fight the pandemic, including expanded testing via drive-through locations in every state, enlisting the military to help expand the pool of hospital beds, and quick action on spending to help people who have lost jobs and to offset the deadening effect on the economy.
That is: a story that merited almost cartoon-character double-takes of astonishment, marked by extreme verbal descriptions like insanity, grotesquerie and depravity, grabbed, at least for the beginnings of one news cycle, a portion of media attention, before likely getting thrown into the wash of what has become the daily recitation of the gobsmacking news out of the nation's capital.

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