Example sentences of "[noun] speak from [art] " in BNC.

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1 Brockway , Mann and Pollitt spoke from a joint platform at the May Day Rally in Hyde Park .
2 The managing director spoke from the car and he never followed it up .
3 It was the old female eagle speaking from the darkness near him , repeating the name he had finally spoken .
4 They walked into the hall , and both jumped when Clyde the night watchman spoke from the shadows behind them .
5 Great poets speak from a position of morality , of authority and that 's the one thing these people ca n't abide .
6 Adorno speaks from the vantage-point of modernism ( though , as we have seen , he arguably gives this too monolithic an interpretation ) : his ideal is an individual critique , which is negative in relation to society but also constitutes a positive synthesis — an alternative .
7 In the meantime we may note that , right or wrong , balanced or not , Leonard spoke from the heart — as did the prophets of old ; the sell-out qualities of the book demonstrated the need , as well as his astuteness in compiling his selection .
8 Jacob speaks from the heart .
9 Brightly patterned bunk covers and matching curtains provided splashes of colour , and , having examined each one in turn , she was about to leave number four when Silas 's voice spoke from the doorway .
10 Shiona jumped and spun round , startled , as a voice spoke from the drawing-room doorway behind her .
11 Party chairman John Evans , backed by union leaders , wants a return to the tradition allowing only NEC members to speak from the platform .
12 Madeleine spoke from the doorway .
13 " I do wish I had a Naughty Friend , " Nicandra spoke from the bottom of her heart as she lagged her way back to Dada and the sofa , bringing the red leather-bound book that had lain on top of other red leather-bound books piled one above the other on the lower shelf of a mahogany whatnot .
14 Niall spoke from the doorway .
15 A preliminary meeting in Manchester in October 1853 got the support of the BFASS committee ; when an inaugural gathering was held Sturge and Thompson spoke from the same platform and it was resolved that the Manchester Anti-Slavery Union should become an auxiliary of the BFASS .
16 For fourteen years she had delivered the Leader 's speech on the last afternoon of the conference ; she was too old a hand to speak from the floor .
17 He had many of the qualities of an inspiring leader ; for he combined a keen intellect with an ability to speak from the heart ; and over and above that the power to make up his mind and to decide .
18 It is always a privilege to speak from the Opposition Dispatch Box , especially towards the end of a Third Reading debate .
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