speech community

We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.

Alessandro turned a grateful look on Ramona as he translated this speech, so in unison with Indian modes of thought and feeling.

And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.

But hitherto, before these new ideas began to spread in our community, the mass of men and women definitely settled down.

He said no more in words, but his little blue eyes had an eloquence that left nothing to mere speech.

I doubt if the modern community can afford to continue it; it certainly cannot afford to extend it very widely.