Example sentences of "he speak of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did he speak of a recent row or of serious friction with anyone ? ’ |
| 2 | He makes a great deal , as we have seen , of the gift of the Holy Spirit to Jesus : but only once in the ministry does he speak of the disciples having the Spirit . |
| 3 | He exaggerates when he speaks of a ‘ deafening silence , from historians on the land question , but he makes a strong case for placing the land issue near the centre of any sound historical analysis of the period . |
| 4 | This piece of advice might suggest that his grasp of the ‘ new psychology ’ was still at the rudimentary stage , since he speaks of a neurosis as if it were something avoidable . |
| 5 | He speaks of a kind of intellectual pessimism , a ‘ despair of knowing anything ’ , into which it is possible to fall after repeated failures in the search for knowledge . |
| 6 | He speaks of a battle against the Germans . |
| 7 | He has taken to disrupting romantic trysts in the village by pouring glue into the hair of those girls who step out with soldiers ; his motive being to encourage the largest possible number of servicemen to attend his lectures , where he speaks of the mysteries of the countryside . |
| 8 | He speaks of the Logos made flesh . |
| 9 | Roger Duvoisin ( 1965 , p.25 ) extends this idea when he speaks of the well-designed page . |
| 10 | The question that arises here is whether Gandhi is referring to an ‘ essence ’ or ‘ primordial element ’ when he speaks of the heart of one religion being identical with the heart of another religion . |
| 11 | Gandhi , as we have seen , uses different terminology when he speaks of the symbols of religion becoming fetishes which , in his view , are idolatrous and fit only to be discarded . |
| 12 | The presenter of This Is Your Life flinches when he speaks of the recent major surgery on Patrick 's hip . |
| 13 | He speaks of the trouble he has in getting paid , his fear of old age and its isolation and poverty when he can no longer work ; and he describes the privations and pains of his working conditions . |
| 14 | In the realm of philosophy , Lyotard ( 1984 ) echoes a similar view when he speaks of the jubilation , delight and intensification of a sense of being , that arises out of conceiving new categories . |
| 15 | Similarly , in 1469 he speaks of the rising against Edward IV as a whirlwind coming down from the North ( 14 , pp.531 , 542 ) . |
| 16 | It is a borderland concept between the mental and the physical , and Freud wants to express this when he speaks of an instinct arising as an impulse within the organism , not as a stimulus from without . |
| 17 | In James Callaghan 's famous speech at Ruskin College , Oxford , in October 1976 , from which the Great Debate emerged , he spoke of a school curriculum which would aim ‘ to equip children … for a lively , constructive place in society , and also fit them for a job of work ’ . |
| 18 | He spoke of a syllabus that would demand breadth and balance of knowledge and understanding , without any sacrifice of depth of study . |
| 19 | Thoreau told of rising early and when his neighbours woke to mist and rain , he spoke of a clear sunrise . |
| 20 | He spoke of a well-off socialist he knew at college ; what irked him was not the socialist views , some of which he agreed with , but the fact that here was a wealthy socialist telling working people what they should think . |
| 21 | He spoke of a mathematics of colour , Wittgenstein , a Farbmathematik : one knew saturated red or yellow , once experienced , as one knew the nature of a circle or the square on the hypotenuse . |
| 22 | He spoke of a shepherd with his sheep . |
| 23 | He spoke of a woman sweeping her home . |
| 24 | He spoke of a " worthy future " in store if perestroika was continued , but warned that if its opponents gained the upper hand there lay ahead " dismal times " . |
| 25 | He spoke of a climate of " self-censorship , fear and hypocrisy " based on the " ideology of the single party " . |
| 26 | Later , in an interview in the Financial Times of Feb. 8 he spoke of a " fundamental review " of the ANC 's stance on the nationalization of key industries and went on to urge foreign companies to visit South Africa to investigate investment opportunities . |
| 27 | He spoke of the monstrous word Whip to describe the officer who marshals the privates . |
| 28 | He spoke of the way Britain failed to take care of the environment and lamented the creeping of towns and the vanishing of the fields and hedgerows , not so much because of the animals as because of the air and the nature of man and the liberty of the soul . |
| 29 | Somewhat sceptical , he spoke of the need for single rooms , safety , security … and the importance of accommodating dogs . |
| 30 | ‘ Despondent souls , ’ it was said , ‘ and there are not a few of these , seem to have been struck only by one part of the Führer 's speech : where he spoke of the preparations for the winter campaign in 1942–43 . |