It leant a peculiar intensity to his simplest utterance; and as he spoke, his eyes glared.

To this general appreciation of functional variety in language, the pluralist adds the idea that language is intrinsically multifunctional, so that even the simplest utterance conveys more than one kind of meaning.

It was a simple, touching utterance, closing with this tender word of farewell: Robert Browning, when he was nearing the end of his earthly days, said that death was the thing that we did not believe in.

Diana shut her eyes, wilting under the heat of that simple utterance.

Yet to examine even the simplest utterance is to enter a labyrinth of possibility.

He seemed to truly realize in his simple utterance the truth in what one and all predicted across the five-week trial: In sparing or removing the President, the assembled senators were casting the most important votes of their lives.

Her voice could still evoke colours and tones that made the simplest utterance eloquent.

MacDonald counted his cards carefully, to make doubles sure it was not a foul hand, wrote a sum on a paper slip, and slid it into the pot, with the simple utterance:- "Five thousand."

And that simple utterance - spoken with such resoundingly offhand snobbery - goes a long way toward explaining why New York has always been, and will always remain, a brutal party town.

Robbins's script exposes the amorphous nature of the language of the right, and how hearts and minds are won by the simple utterance of a few platitudes about American values, freedom and the family.