Word: spokenness
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...differ more from northern Brazil, which is influenced by the black population and elements of African culture held over from the slave trade. There's even a "Brazilian Tyrol" in the alpine chalets of Treze Tílias, and in the smallest rural villages, German and Italian are still spoken today...
...music producer obsessed with adding “more cowbell” to songs. After his performance, a cast member dressed as a buxom bumblebee produced the “Pudding Pot” trophy and presented it to Walken with a kiss on the cheek. Walken was soft-spoken. He said that he was genuinely honored to be chosen by the Pudding. “I’ve actually known about this award for a long time,” he said. “I’m amazed and thrilled.” Before taking...
...that generation of reformers, the West was the shiny future, progress the ultimate good. English and French were spoken round the dinner table, and the women gathered to knit the latest Paris fashions. These children of a revolution dreamed of a westernized Turkey, and naively believed a little social engineering would get them there. Modernity was their religion...
...know about you, Ms. Coulter, but those of us who have spoken with Second World War survivors tend to prefer freedom to oppression, regardless of the prevailing tax policy. If Osama bin Laden supported lower tax rates than any U.S. presidential candidate, would you be willing to endorse him? Anything for a headline, right? (If so, I would encourage you to reconsider your enthusiastic defense of torture, considering that at present, such conspicuous sympathy with terrorists oftentimes leads to some less-than-friendly interrogation...
...Calderón’s former teacher, Kennedy School Professor Jeffrey A. Frankel, recalled Calderón as “soft-spoken and self-deprecating” in an interview yesterday. Frankel said Calderón took at least three of his classes while studying at Harvard...