It is seldom that Mark Twain has made a better after-dinner speech than he delivered then.
Henry James made his first after-dinner speech there, for one thing--at least he claimed it was his first, though this is by the way.
How is it possible to summarize the qualities that go to make up the good after-dinner speech, when we remember the inimitable serious-drollery of Mark Twain, the sweet southern eloquence of Henry W.
If there is one place more than another where second-hand opinions and platitudes are unwelcome it is in the after-dinner speech.
Grady's after-dinner speech how he attempted to secure the confidence of his audience.
There was a time when I went to make an after-dinner speech with a light heart, and when on my way to the dinner I could think over my exordium in my cab and trust to the spur of the moment for the rest of my speech.
I am sure that the ideal after-dinner speech is waiting for me somewhere with my address upon it, if I could only be so lucky as to come across it.
And yet there are Americans not a few to whom the making of an after-dinner speech is a most painful ordeal.
Here is a story that James Bryce tells of the most successful after-dinner speech he remembers to have heard.
As some one has pointed out, the after-dinner speech is a distinct form of expression, just as is the short story.
Such a one would like to be told first of all what an after-dinner speech is.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dinner speech" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
