Reciters

I am, of course, referring to the 'Bible-reciters' who call out to everyone that walks by, telling us and our children that fairies are demons and that we are worshipping satan. ❋ Anne Johnson (2009)

Many bunraku fan sites, such as the blogs Mannaka Na Hibi (kayabatyou. blog11.fc2.com) and Yoshida Tamame San Ouen (tamamefun. seesaa.net), are linked to sites of reciters, puppeteers and even samisen players. ❋ Aika Nanao (2009)

It takes as long as 20 years to master moving the puppets and some handlers and reciters are listed as "living national treasures" by the Japanese government. ❋ Aika Nanao (2009)

Homeristæ = reciters of Homer, as opposed to the Homeridæ or School of Homer. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Bela Lugosi's Dracula had a posh accent; Klaus Kinski's German-speaking Nosferatu apologized for his rude entrances; Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's Lestat and Louis were stereotypical French -- effeminate reciters of poetry. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Exhibitors of Punch, buffo singers with guitars, reciters of poetry, reciters of stories, a row of cheap exhibitions with clowns and showmen, drums, and trumpets, painted cloths representing the wonders within, and admiring crowds assembled without, assist the whirl and bustle. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ludorum pompa, &c. In Italy they have solemn declamations of certain select young gentlemen in Florence (like those reciters in old Rome), and public theatres in most of their cities, for stage-players and others, to exercise and recreate themselves. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Let this then be one of our rules and principles concerning the gods, to which our poets and reciters will be expected to conform — that God is not the author of all things, but of good only. ❋ Unknown (2006)

His problem is that he continues to believe that without the input of scroll-reciters, humans will have difficulty distinguishing “right” from “wrong.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

I know enough to pass, but can ANYONE think of anything amusing to say about that crowd of Monty Python reciters? ❋ Unknown (2006)

When the conviction was forced upon them, they were angry with the orators who had joined in promoting the expedition, just as if they had not themselves voted it, and were enraged also with the reciters of oracles and soothsayers, and all other omen-mongers of the time who had encouraged them to hope that they should conquer ❋ Thucydides (2005)

But maybe not quite as ridiculous as we think - to push Matthew's Japanese analogy, when ancient Greeks were reciting poetry for an audience did they deliberately exaggerate the pitch accents, perhaps in the way that traditional Japanese Noo play reciters do? ❋ Unknown (2005)

I mean the teacher himself, who, stunned with the hum, and suffocated with the closeness of his school-room, has spent the whole day (himself against a host) in controlling petulance, exciting indifference to action, striving to enlighten stupidity, and labouring to soften obstinacy; and whose very powers of intellect have been confounded by hearing the same dull lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. ❋ Unknown (2004)

When the conviction was forced upon them, they were angry with the orators who had joined in promoting the expedition, just as if they had not themselves voted it, and were enraged also with the reciters of oracles and soothsayers, and all other omenmongers of the time who had encouraged them to hope that they should conquer Sicily. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

Athenians angry at reciters who predicted victory in Sicily, 8.1.1 ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

Abdullah would sometimes ride a little, or shoot a little, and return exhausted to his tent for massage; and afterwards reciters would be introduced to soothe his aching head. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

No poet has much time for rhetors; mere learners by rote, marketplace reciters, who have their Hektor's Farewell, or Cave of Polyphemos, or Arming of Achilles, which they give each time, or sometimes two bits that they stitch together with lame frayed lines of their own devising. ❋ Renault, Mary (1978)

The suicides, the immolations and the feat of Colonel Ito at Port Arthur had all stemmed from this sense of obedience, and the reason that reciters came from Tokyo to such remote areas as Kauai was that the Imperial government wanted to remind all Japanese of their undying loyalty to superiors, in this case the emperor and his army. ❋ Michener, James (1959)

[My chem] [lecture] is on Monday and [Wednesday], and the recitation meets on Thursday. ❋ Urbster1 (2006)

[I've been] reciting [poetry] since i was three years old recite means to say a [poem] ❋ Mahmood.Kia (2013)

I might possibly pass my [liberal] [art class] because we discussed the [lecture] in my recitation. ❋ Jane100000 (2005)

The Reciter thanked himself during a St. Patrick's Day speech because he can't think and recite off [the teleprompter] at the same time. Did you see [The Reciter's] [impromptu speech] when his teleprompter broke? He never made one complete sentence. ❋ Jackwayd (2009)

1) person-A: "I was looking forward to a good discussion, but they kept talking about their [aches] and [pains] and I couldn't [get a word in edgewise]." person-B: "Ugh, another organ recital?" person-A: "It totally was." 2) person-C: I'm in the mood for music. person-D: I'm going out tonight to listen to an organ recital. Want to come with? person-C: Sure, that sounds great. ❋ Too-many-grouchy-people (2009)

She gave her husband an octave recital of everything that went wrong during the day. Instead of she shrieked and [yelled] in a [harsh] and [unpleasant] tone of everything that went wrong during the day. ❋ Voicesiren (2013)

I'm trying to enjoy my food at this [restaurant], but those [old ladies] are making me [vomit] with their organ recital. ❋ Napierman (2012)

[Fanboy]: Let's go watch [Justin Bieber] Me: Bro, [that's so] stupid, just like the recital project. I hate Nueva ❋ Ninjayouknowwhoiam (2013)

I was [tired] of the organ recital so [I left]. ❋ The Return Of Light Joker (2009)

“[Harder], [I’m] about to..reciting the national anthem.” “[Fuck], I’m about to...reciting the national anthem too.” ❋ Dsmithhoss (2019)