Chain of consequences
Grossman's novel deals with a man who returns to 'normal' life after 30 years in the gulag. Here he shows...
Tear-wringing phrases
Can you sense in this triologism that the moving eloquence of this politician is a little too practised and contrived?...
Wrung from the soul
Maggie Tulliver is a deep-feeling woman of painful sincerity, and here words are wrung from her, with a wrenching simile.
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A circular accent
Seamus Heaney describes a circle to convey the sounds of the Ulster accent, drawing an image of tangential consonants and...
To be forever on the road
A marvelous metaphor to describe poetry and its relationship to speaking; I like this notion of realising that speaking is...
Accumulated silence
I found this idea interesting, that suffering comes to lodge in us from the first time we hesitate to speak. ...
Well-chiselled politeness
I'm all for politeness and things being well-chiselled, but this is a chilling form - impeccable yet indifferent as to...
A protagonist in a lost world
This suggests an expansive speaker with vast ideas; one who embraces the world, makes perorations rather than utterances, and generally...
Slow-striking clock
Mr Poyser is a kind farmer, and as he takes very seriously his duty to speak on behalf of the...
Say what you ought
A laughing summary of a lady's capacity to say the right thing at the right moment, just what she ought,...
To charm, to change …
Odysseus is a tricky hero, part noble, upstanding and brave, part slippery, trickery, too-clever-by-half. He is a compelling orator, and...
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