| Viewers baffled by these moments, not to mention the orotund tones and rolled R's of theatrical elocution, will probably welcome the subtitles. |
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| Other regular events include elocution contests, fine arts competitions and debates. |
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| It's a fascinating process in and of itself, a skill of elocution mixed with a keen sense of observation. |
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| When more emotion was needed, the volume was turned up, or the elocution became more orotund. |
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| But this new pride in the provincial doesn't mean actors can stint on their elocution lessons. |
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| Certainly the cast are up to the haughty elocution and aristocratic manner demanded by their roles. |
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| It just so happened that elocution lessons were scheduled for the two older girls for an hour that day. |
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| Fenelon's text, full of borrowings from the ancients, is beautiful in its elocution and its rhythm. |
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| Competitions will be held in elocution, essay and painting for students from schools following the State, CBSE and ICSE syllabus. |
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| Some readers do elocution lessons to get rid of troublesome sibilants or worrisome vowels. |
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| Since her very early childhood, she has been addicted to elocution, imitating the voices and expressions of other people. |
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| She was educated by British nuns who insisted on public-school elocution, and there you are yet again. |
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| Another of Roberts' fans, while filming, was Gay Harden, who portrays a teacher of speech, elocution and poise. |
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| But here the roles are reversed, with Susannah York's money-grabbing socialite as the teacher in matters of elocution and manners. |
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| Settelen made videotapes of her practicing elocution and formal speechmaking with him, presumably to improve her performance as a public figure. |
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| Right from his student days at the Sethupathi Higher Secondary School, he showed keen interest in elocution and essay writing competitions. |
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| Give that girl a bath, or at the very least a hair wash, some elocution lessons and the imagination to ask questions beyond the banal. |
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| She was coached in elocution by an actor from the Comedie Francaise and the dramatist Crebillon. |
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| Let us be clear that this is a spiritual experience and has nothing to do with fine elocution or educated diction. |
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| Do you have good elocution and concentration, a quick mind and sound judgment? |
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| Authors of conduct manuals saw elocution as a skill to enhance the home, for reading aloud was regarded as an activity well suited to the woman's role in the domestic sphere. |
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| Participants will contest in light music, elocution, clay modelling, painting, group dance, fancy dress, group song and quiz events of the arts section. |
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| Della has a beautiful voice and great rapid-fire elocution, but the piece would be well served by tighter direction and fewer generalizations about gender in the comedic bits. |
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| Did you know that Britain's ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher trained to lower the pitch of her voice and improve her elocution so that she would sound more authoritative? |
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| It was my elocution and drama teacher at school who told me I had to audition for drama school. |
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| She took advice on hats and hairstyles from Gordon Reece, her spin-doctor, and elocution lessons to soften her diction. |
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| Later when I made my career in television, people would ask me whether I had taken elocution lessons. |
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| But what about career-conscious politicians or any of today's VIPs for whom elocution is as important as execution? |
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| You cannot secure that by forgetting yourself and thinking only of your subject, or by applying lessons in imitative elocution. |
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| Whereas the 620 participating girls did well at posters and slogans, boys performed well in elocution. |
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| Always available and disciplined, they have excellent elocution skills and enjoy working in teams. |
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| Her speed of elocution, for example, was quite different from that of everyday life. |
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| We will listen to your needs so that your dental prosthesis functions the way you want, allows for the best elocution and has the look you want. |
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| Aside from music, the workshop offers classes of stage movement, enunciation and elocution practice under the guidance of actress Marilena Boeru. |
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| He throws every fiber of his being into each performance, altering his posture, elocution, temperament, and more. |
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| And Robert De Niro's Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull wasn't exactly the king of elocution. |
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| It turned out their previous teacher had been a Miss Barwell from the Home Counties, a former elocution mistress who prided herself on her cut-glass vowels. |
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| Other performers, again, are remarkable for vivacity of action and elocution, who nevertheless are felt to be feeble and ineffective in rousing an audience to emotion. |
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| At the age of 18 Gérard Depardieu already wanted to become an actor, although he was suffering from severe problems with his speech and elocution. |
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| The 29 children institutions involved deal with the deaf, visually impaired, mentally handicapped, and children with elocution problems and learning difficulties. |
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| Henderson urged him to take elocution lessons and got him parts at the Maida Vale Theatre in London. |
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| Your gestures are all right, I suppose, but as for the elocution! |
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| Although she was born profoundly deaf, Hilda grew up learning to communicate verbally through elocution lessons, by feeling throat vibrations, and by developing speech reading skills. |
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| Thatcher appears, looking like a possessed marionette, her bossy elocution a declaration of intent, as if she means her voice to carry, to be heard generations on. |
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| Mr. Speaker, while the hon. member may be correct in saying that this is not the most exciting or glamorous topic to come to the chamber of recent date, his elocution and delivery bordered on glamorous. |
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| Excellent presentation, diplomacy, facilitated elocution, understanding of your culture and good management under stress are other qualities we require from our hostesses as a minimum. |
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| Conference interpreters must have a high degree of physical and mental endurance, intense powers of concentration, mental flexibility, rapid mental assimilation skills, good elocution and pleasant voices. |
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| In these cases patients had troubles during feeding and elocution. |
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| Elegance, charm, competence, promptness but also diplomacy, facilitated elocution, understanding of your culture and good management under stress are keywords that characterise the spirit of Be My Guest. |
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| Well over 500 children enthusiastically took part in competitions of sport, country dancing and elocution subjects mostly related to the difficulties and the rights of children. |
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| In addition to the official programme, the pupils were able to take part in extra-curricular activities such as writing, as well as elocution, recitation and other artistic contests. |
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| Back in the day we'd get elocution classes where senior Radio Four presenters would come down from London and give us in-house training in how to annunciate properly. |
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| It is noted as a transitional work, both in the move away from Ciceronian style in preaching, and in the changing meaning of elocution to the modern sense of vocal production. |
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