Lecterns

Anticipation ran higher than Charlie Sheen on New Year's Eve that a hockey match would break out and the blood thirsty audience was not going to be satisfied until lecterns dripped with copious spillage. ❋ Will Durst (2011)

They show the ‘suffering’ in my hands in transit to desks, reading chairs, lecterns, not to mention the wear and tear of loaning them, passing them on to the hands of others. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As the two candidates stood at their lecterns waiting for the debate to go live, Conway kept trying to catch Paul's eye, presumably to exchange greetings. ❋ Richard Adams (2010)

But pulpits, lecterns, bimas and other sacred forums should not be sites from which stump speeches are delivered and partisan politics preached. ❋ Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy (2011)

Scene of the weekStanding at their lecterns on a stage with a backdrop like a computer screen saver, the three party leaders in The First Election Debate (ITV1) resembled nothing so much as contestants in a special political version of The Weakest Link. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rather than major celebrities standing formally at lecterns, Scotland Debates had four men few Scots had heard of sloping casually on uncomfortable chairs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Viewers of TV political shows know that the image of two lecterns side by side in the Downing Street garden means only one thing: a press conference between the British PM and a foreign leader. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sept. 26 at the University of Mississippi, on foreign policy and national security, moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS, with the candidates standing at lecterns. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Not for the reasons politicians championed from behind lecterns hundreds of miles away. ❋ Thomas Daly (2010)

Usually these manuscripts remained in place in the choir mounted on lecterns, because their size and weight (they were bound in leather between thick wooden boards) made them awkward to move frequently. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There among lecterns and desks, books and scrolls, bones and specimens and alchemical alembics and tubings, I cast the Calantina once more, receiving the nine and eleven, tunnel on stone, the Sign of the Rat. ❋ Sydney Kilgore (2010)

Philadelphia Inquirer: Casey, Santorum debate a last time: “When they last met for a televised debate, Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum and Democrat Bob Casey Jr. looked like they were ready to jump from behind their lecterns and scuffle.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such an abridgement would demonstrate that 25 years in print, on television and behind lecterns have made Mr. Burleigh, above all else, a craftsman. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Globes and lecterns with books on display lined the walls, bookcases at least a dozen feet high. ❋ Victor Gischler (2009)

Mobley scrapped the lecterns and turned the IBM Executive School into 12 weeks of intensive experiential learning, built around values and followed with on-the-job coaching. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[God] he is so [lectern] ❋ Slayer100 (2022)