The modified movements of ordinary conversation do not fulfil all the requirements of the preacher.
The faculties most needed in pulpit preaching are those very powers that are so largely exercised in ordinary conversation.
I do not mean elevated in pitch, but in the sense of being launched upon a higher level of thought and with greater intensity than is usually called for by ordinary conversation.
It is heard on the stage and in public speaking generally; in ordinary conversation it suggests the speech of a foreigner, especially if the [ɑ] element of the diphthong is lengthened.
He must articulate more carefully than in ordinary conversation: unstressed vowels will have greater importance and be less reduced, consonants will never be slurred over.
In an ordinary conversation it is scarcely perceptible, but it is almost impossible for me to make an explanation or relate an incident or tell an anecdote.
As long as we were in ordinary conversation, she could not trace it beyond about her twelfth year.
If my neighbor is to me a subject, for instance, in the midst of an ordinary conversation, he comes in question only with reference to his aims and meanings: whatever he utters has a purpose and end.
Already have these terms become so familiar that they are shortened, in ordinary conversation, to the DRY and the SLOW.
The phrase WIDE AWAKE carries the same meaning in ordinary conversation.
Homer and Virgil introduced Persons whose Characters are commonly known among Men, and such as are to be met with either in History, or in ordinary Conversation.
This is such a Poorness of Spirit, such a despicable Cowardice, such a degenerate abject State of Mind, as one would think Human Nature incapable of, did we not meet with frequent Instances of it in ordinary Conversation.
The common notion of the power of poetry and eloquence, as well as that of words in ordinary conversation, is, that they affect the mind by raising in it ideas of those things for which custom has appointed them to stand.
But to this day, in ordinary conversation, it is usual to add the endearing name of little to everything we love; the French and Italians make use of these affectionate diminutives even more than we.
These terms are among persons learned in the distinctions shortened, in ordinary conversation, to the "dry" and the "slow.
The phrase WIDE-AWAKE carries a similar meaning in ordinary conversation, but has a more general reference.
Tragic declamation was graver and more harmonious than comic, but even the comic was more musical and varied than the pronunciation used in ordinary conversation(626).
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordinary conversation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
