Do they sound like they're speaking off the cuff, rather than rehearsed?
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That means candidates can end up speaking off the cuff or giving hastily prepared remarks.
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He was famous for never using a teleprompter and speaking off the cuff, so there hadn't been opportunities.
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But if he starts speaking off the cuff, it's possible another "very fine people" moment is on the horizon.
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When he's speaking off the cuff, his rambling remarks can be full of digressions and hard-to-follow tangents.
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The most likely explanation for Trump's comments, then, is that he was just speaking off the cuff in his speech.
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"Well, I say when you are a political candidate for eight months, you are speaking off the cuff." she responded.
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In that latter setting, he owns the stage, controls the crowd, usually speaking off-the-cuff for close to an hour.
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Breaking with his usual practice of speaking off the cuff, Trump read from a teleprompter and left without taking questions from reporters.
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For Trump, speaking off the cuff for two hours at a massive campaign rally is one of the best perks of being president.
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Overall, Trump appeared stay on script, and his rhetoric was notably tame for a president who is known for speaking off the cuff.
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Justice Ginsburg was speaking off the cuff, offering her opinion on a matter currently in the news, as any citizen has a right to do.
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He did this again on Tuesday night, even though he wasn't speaking off the cuff, in a revved-up style, at one of his rallies.
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" The backdrop: President Trump was reportedly speaking off the cuff yesterday when he warned North Korea that more threats would be met with "fire and fury.
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Clinton to the point of rudeness when he is speaking off the cuff, such as by making fun of her for recuperating from her recent pneumonia.
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But when the pope, speaking off the cuff, likened European migrant and refugee holding centers to concentration camps, the advocacy group's response was swift and sharp.
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But then, speaking off the cuff to reporters on the flight back from South America he abruptly shifted his position again, saying the bishop had been slandered.
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If the evening taught us anything, it's that film actors clearly aren't as confident editing their own scripts -- or speaking off the cuff -- as they like to think.
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Trump's heterodoxy often comes from his gut; when he's speaking from a teleprompter, he sounds much more like a typical Republican than when he's speaking off the cuff.
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And he is adaptable in the face of infirmity: after reading the wrong speech at the opening of parliament last year he has taken to speaking off the cuff instead.
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Speaking off-the-cuff at one of his golf clubs, he chided North Korea for its threats, pledging to meet further provocations "with fire and fury like the world has never seen".
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Trump has mocked her for taking time off of the campaign trail for debate practice, and has brushed off suggestions that he should prepare extensively, claiming he performs best when speaking off-the-cuff.
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In conversations over the past two weeks, some of the President's advisers have told him that simply tweeting and speaking off-the-cuff wouldn't alone suffice in convincing Americans a border wall is necessary.
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It was notable, for instance, that Spicer read his statement word for word rather than speaking off the cuff and also brought visual aids, suggesting that this was pretty carefully planned behind the scenes.
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Speaking off the cuff, Trump began remarks by falsely claiming that the investigations into him predated his presidency, called the Russia investigation "bullshit," and mocked a Purple Heart recipient who testified during the impeachment trial.
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At his rally on Wednesday night, Mr. Trump was speaking off the cuff to supporters as he called out Democrats like Ms. Dingell, who had voted in favor of the two articles of impeachment against him.
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It's not clear where that estimate came from — it appears to have come from contractors working with unaccompanied-child shelters, and it's not clear whether the contractors formally estimated the number or were speaking off the cuff.
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It was also not immediately clear if Trump's move was a coordinated strategy with his legal team, or a case of the President characteristically speaking off the cuff in a way that could give his lawyers fits.
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At a fundraiser on Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden pulled a Joe Biden, stirring up controversy after speaking off the cuff about his fond memories of working alongside segregationist senators, and telling wealthy donors they have nothing to fear from his presidency.
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The SEC is reportedly in touch with Tesla to confirm that Musk's tweets were factual — in other words, that Tesla is legitimately considering going private — as he could have violated federal securities laws if he was merely bluffing or speaking off the cuff.
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A major force of Focus public relations is Marissa Sharpless, a virtuosically engaging senior manager of social media and P.R. for Cinnabon who, speaking off the cuff, paints a brand picture of such depth and volume that it rivals any by Caravaggio. Mrs.
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Controversy and loose-cannon-ism, speaking off the cuff and without a filter (or seemingly any real forethought), has always been part of the Kanye West brand; part of his appeal and extraordinary hubris and the magnet draw that is a combination of great talent and the constant threat of a train wreck.
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The videos take advantage of the White House setting — lush landscaping, flattering light, sedate columns — and appeal to the reality TV star's preference for speaking off-the-cuff, echoing his early social media "Trumpvlogs" in which he teed off on topics like the female reboot of "Ghostbusters": The aesthetics of the Rose Garden videos are more YouTube than NBC, unadorned by graphics or soundtrack.
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And we have first-world problems, so we're all like, "Let's go around and catch these digital goods because it makes us feel amazing," and in some ways ... you know, I don't want to go too deep into the psychology of it in speaking off the cuff, but you have to look too at some of the recent events in the news and just how everything seems to be imploding, and I start to wonder if there's a reaction to … KS: True, but I think there's some level of people who love to join whatever — the hula hoop or whatever — and people like to join a fad.
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The little red dot has entered the psyche of every Singaporean, and become a permanent part of our vocabulary, for which we are grateful.". On 19 September 2006, Habibie explained to reporters that far from dismissing Singapore in 1998, he had meant to highlight Singapore's achievements despite its small size. He said that he had made the remark while speaking off-the-cuff with members of an Indonesian youth group and trying to "give them spirit". He said that he had told them: "If you look at the map of South-east Asia, you [Indonesia] are so big, and Singapore is just a dot.
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Goldwater had previously voted in favor of the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights acts, but only after proposing "restrictive amendments" to them. Goldwater was famous for speaking "off-the-cuff" at times, and many of his former statements were given wide publicity by the Democrats. In the early 1960s, Goldwater had called the Eisenhower administration "a dime store New Deal", and the former president never fully forgave him or offered him his full support in the election. In December 1961, he told a news conference that "sometimes I think this country would be better off if we could just saw off the Eastern Seaboard and let it float out to sea", a remark which indicated his dislike of the liberal economic and social policies that were often associated with that part of the nation.
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