That was far too much to say, however, with his halting speech.

If he spoke, his halting speech would make only partial sense.

Members of his family say his halting speech has nothing to do with fluency in English.

Pitt's voice came through his ears like the halting speech of a senile man.

Slow and halting speech is not well understood.

It respects halting speech as much as the fluid kind, honoring reflection.

"I thank you, young Hastur," the chieri said in that slow, halting speech.

Alaire spoke some of the language, but it was evident from his halting speech that it wasn't very much.

It was in this period that Mr. Bigart found he could use his halting speech to become a more effective reporter.

Now her halting speech and the tension of the day made her totally unequal to sustaining even the most rudimentary talk.

"They never told us anything," he said in halting speech, a result of his partly removed cerebellum and lingering paralysis throughout his right side.

Katherine Kellgren as Laura uses halting speech and a shrinking frame to suggest years of submission.

After Teacher's health broke down I worked very much alone with Polly's hand to furnish information and her voice to reinforce my halting speech.

Despite her halting speech, she tells a reporter that her chore in the house is looking after the recyclable cans and bottles.

Arcot's halting speech told of his intense thought-of a dream of such awful energies as man had never before conceived.

The humorous Bearer character was a pun-spewing, bad-joke-telling host who spoke in a gravelly voice with a halting speech pattern.

After the device is destroyed, however, the Terrahawks find that the Sporilla is capable of halting speech and has no desire to fight them.

Chambers "had something of a coarse exterior" as well as a "slow, low, and deliberate speaking style" that he himself described as "halting speech."

His social life also ground to a halt now that it took minutes to convey in halting speech thoughts he once expressed glibly in a few seconds.

Her halting speech and uncertain tones exposed her unfamiliarity with her birth tongue, emphasizing that she had not grown up in their tribe but was an outsider.

So, when her aunt in her halting speech was asking for a lawyer, Elinor took no chances, and saw to it that the old lady should die that night!"

With the TV camera on him, he gave a brief, halting speech, thanking Seattle for his generosity and leadership, as a banner unfurled from the bottom of the scaffold.

The tough words attacking President Bush's security and economic policies were delivered in a languorous and at times halting speech that left many supporters squirming in the midday sun.

In a brief and halting speech to the court today, Mr. Layton expressed his regrets to the families of Mr. Ryan and the others who were killed.

Given the circumstances - a violent act, Carlee's wound, the unsettling nature of a junkie's staccato motion and halting speech - some unease on the cameraman's part could be understood.