The scene, containing much recitation, is long and well told.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Sometimes the recitation is a piteous description of the agony of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference

The “good black things” referred to in the recitation are the bears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

"Greek"; that a recitation was a "recit"; that the recitation rooms were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left Tackle Thayer] Reference

Woods '1,542-word recitation easily could have been condensed to 6 words.    From Wordnik.com.  [FREEDOM EDEN] Reference

These genealogies are sacred and their recitation is a great act of propitiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

Certain other fundamental conditions must obtain if the recitation is to be a success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recitation] Reference

The questions that are considered in the recitation are the factor of greatest influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Study and Teaching How to Study] Reference

Hence the teacher's first and greatest problem in the recitation is the problem of interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recitation] Reference

This material detail has its importance; it ensures mechanical recitation, which is essential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English] Reference

From one point of view, the recitation is a recitation-period, a segment of the daily time schedule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recitation] Reference

From another point of view, the recitation is a form of educative activity rather than a mere time allotment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recitation] Reference

It gives a feeling of security and restfulness to the history recitation, that is entirely lacking in chemistry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daddy-Long-Legs] Reference

Liberal foreign affairs spokesman Bob Rae said nearly half of Mr Harper's speech was a word-for-word recitation of Mr Howard's comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Dark Age Is Dawning] Reference

(The use of the term "recitation" for sections in some colleges is a fossil of this.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Is It Worth Being Wise?] Reference

Q You used the word "recitation" to describe his response when the President raised human rights?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Background Press Briefing On Meetings With Jiang Zemin] Reference

For recitation from the sacred text.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference

The morning passed in recitation and study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage] Reference

A fine recitation, meaning that the praised far excels the rest of his tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

A detailed treatment of special methods of teaching, we usually abandon the term "recitation" and use the word "lesson.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recitation] Reference

"recitation," but was overjoyed to discover that that resource of rural entertainment has no foothold in the Philippines.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference

Instead, we've mostly heard a familiar recitation of clichés.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Shouldn’t Be Inscrutable] Reference

SIMON: You seem to have dropped that out of the recitation though.    From Wordnik.com.  [A South African Great, Playing 'To Get Well'] Reference

My head is spinning by the time the waiter finishes the recitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Problems With Dining In Restaurants] Reference

The essay should never be essentially a recitation of the résumé.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perfect Essay] Reference

Being tasked to give inspirational advice practically begs for the recitation of clichés.    From Wordnik.com.  [What the Graduates Heard] Reference

 After that,  more prayers, part of my recitation of the offices, the Liturgy of the Hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unoriginal Sin - III] Reference

Recently, however, his mother persuaded him to deliver a recitation at one of her "readings.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['His Name's Dutch Reagan'] Reference

Exposed to the light of the '90s, this recitation skewers the false promises of' 60s pop music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do You Hear What I Hear?] Reference

And they went back and rewrote - and wrote the last verse then where I do the recitation, you know.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Jones: A Wild Reputation, A Big Texas Sound] Reference

The 9th Circuit majority called it a proud recitation of the ideals on which our republic was founded.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Pledge Allegiance To Linguistic Obfuscation] Reference

Public officials need to be judged in a more complex context than a mere recitation of their troubles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beneath The Waves] Reference

The rumbling music behind the folksy recitation of degradation carries all of the foreboding and menace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making A 'Big To-Do' About Life's Important Things] Reference

 During his waking hours he listened to — or did not listen to — his father's unending recitation of his mother's virtues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Better] Reference

Sure enough, Mandela agreed, and the movie concludes with his recitation of Malcolm's most famous speech-a vow to achieve racial equality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spike's Mo' Better Moviemaking Blues] Reference