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Reciting in sentence

49 examples of Reciting in a sentence

So I'm going to try and do this while reciting pi.
I don't want to be the last trivia know-it-all sitting on a mountain somewhere, reciting to himself the state capitals and the names of "Simpsons" episodes and the lyrics of Abba songs.
In that ICU room, I walked up to my father's body, and with a quivering voice and through tears, I began reciting the alphabet.
We became his mouthpiece, spending hours each day reciting the alphabet as he whispered back sermons and poetry with blinks of his eye.
And I don't really have to talk, because, strictly speaking, I'm reciting.
I'm going to begin by reciting a poem.
Patrick Stewart, reciting Shakespeare was very good, but still inappropriate.
While the others' characters didn't die in the video game, their reciting her poem has instead unleashed the video game into reality with walking CGI characters stalking and killing each of them, one by one.
None of the characters seemed very unique or complex, they just seemed like actors reciting their lines.
Dyan Cannon tries, Hal Linden looks bored, Donald O'connor reciting a few lines laden with profanity.
At other times, they appeared to be just reciting their lines.
Her idiot-savant sister has been reciting original poetry, which is getting the community excited about the sister writing.
Haddad soon realised that something was 'rotten in Denmark' when the woman began to lock herself in the bathroom with a tape recorder reciting prophesies about' seven Gods'.
At the end Mr Coward gets one last chance to patronise his men as the few survivors shuffle past him,"Goodbye Edwards,it was a privilege to sail with you"he enunciates as if he was reciting "How now brown cow".
The concept of a serial killer clown is actually quite scary seeing is there are a lot of people who are afraid of clowns....but having it be a 300 pound nursery rhyme reciting killer clown makes a mockery of the genre.
Merely reciting a few statistics isn't going to make it with the younger crowd.
i really liked the scene where colman turns off the light in his dressing room near the beginning of the film, and he starts reciting Othello while his face becomes instantly dark and evil.
So often with Stephen King adaptations, you just get a collection of characters reciting dialogue from the books.
I've watched this video over and over and still find myself singing along, reciting my favorite lines, and discovering more of it's charm each time.
The acting is horrid, while the cast is simply reciting lines with little feeling.
I had the honor of experiencing Miss Richards in person reciting "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark".
One of the best scenes has Harry reciting "Star Light, Star Bright" in an aggravated Jack Lemmon voice (which clashes with the poem completely, of course), and it's also the scene where Ellen wishes on the star by saying, "I wish I were a lesbian, that's what I wish.
Set in New England in 1906, we see the plethora of events typical of the era: the high school graduation with individual seniors singing, reciting poetry and the valedictorian speech; the Fourth of July celebration with fireworks and picnics; the careful relationships between the young boys and girls; the close-knit family life with a sister and brother of the parents living with them.
From then on, though, it does seem like the cast is just reciting lines.
They could be sitting and knitting or reciting the telephone book and it would barely matter.
You can tell that this movie has been made with all guts, heart and soul, or passion if you like, it sparkles all over the frame.The suffering and pain of teen years (and the joy of friendship, love and sex) are portrayed in a very poetical way.Both visual and acoustic poetry (the movie is narrated by the character "el garganta" as if reciting a somewhat complex yet beautiful poem).
A surviving b/w reel-to-reel videotape of a 1958 (or 1959) BBC broadcast shows Ms. Holiday- beautiful, regal, but somewhat melancholy (with hair severely pulled back and in a glittering dress)- stylishly reciting with piano accompaniment for 3 minutes of what must be the earliest surviving videotape ever recorded-- and just a scant 5 months before her death.
Reciting short passages from the book of the Apocalypse as sweeping aerial shot after sweeping aerial shot expose a land ravaged by war, the earth tarred far as the eye can see, a vast steppe of black tending to the rim of the world, the skies charred by enormous fires and billows of smoke.
There's even a wicked plot twist wherein the crazy woman has recorded video footage of herself reciting Shakespeare quotes that you have to complete every few minutes in order to continue accessing the computer system.
Most annoying is the restaurant owner who keeps reciting Shakespeare one liners all the time.