impassioned speech

collocation in English

meaningsofimpassionedandspeech

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impassioned
adjective
uk
/ɪmˈpæʃ.ənd/us
/ɪmˈpæʃ.ənd/
Impassioned speech or writing is full of strongly felt and strongly ...
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speech
noun
uk
/spiːtʃ/us
/spiːtʃ/
the ability to talk, the activity of talking, or a piece of ...
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(Definition ofimpassionedandspeechfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He made a mostimpassionedspeechabout that and about the home being broken up when the job finished.
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We have just listened to a somewhatimpassionedspeechin many directions.
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I remind him that he made animpassionedspeechthe other night about the needs of his constituency, depopulation, and all the rest of it.
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I suppose, to make animpassionedspeechagainst it.
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He made a veryimpassionedspeechon industrial relations following two impressive maiden speeches on the same subject.
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Obviously he had the very shortest opportunity to commit to paper what would have been an eloquent andimpassionedspeech.
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He made a powerful andimpassionedspeechto indicate that it must have been obvious to everyone that it was wrong.
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Ives made animpassionedspeech, but did not give the statistics.
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She made animpassionedspeechin which she put before us the ideal of those socialist republics that men and women should have equal chances in industry.
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Hisimpassionedspeechwas described as one of the most eloquent on the floor for some time.
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Standing before the crowd of people gathered before the apartment, he gives animpassionedspeechagainst the eviction.
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When those in attendance finally agreed on a final few points, he launched into animpassionedspeechthat led to a spike in his popularity.
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In 1920, he suffered a stroke after animpassionedspeech, and, three years, later he died.
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As an ordinary member, he had earlier spoken out against the motion (resolution 162) in animpassionedspeech.
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Thomas presented animpassionedspeechsupporting an amendment that doubled the amount to one million dollars.
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Arriving on the farm, the agent finds it hard to maintain the lie, but in animpassionedspeech, convinces the girl's father to let her stay at home.
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Lallus threats do nt move her either, and she throws him out after animpassionedspeechabout how he has been living off her earnings for years.
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Rocky responds to this with animpassionedspeechof his own, however, and they change their minds and give him his license.
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Sofia comes to their headquarters and joins the team after making animpassionedspeechabout why they should stay together.
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