1.   And Antonio Banderas good-naturedly dragging director Pedro Almodovar offstage at the end of his rambling Spanglish acceptance speech.

2.   As if on cue, Dole appeared in Denver a few hours later and delivered a rambling speech to an auditorium filled with flag-waving schoolchildren.

3.   Despite his erratic behavior and rambling speech, he quickly becomes the toast of a certain arty crowd.

4.   He sprinkles his rambling speeches with crude insults against southern Italians, taunting their accents and their economic backwardness.

5.   He was eased out, but the man nominated to succeed him, Bobby Ray Inman, a retired admiral, gave a weirdly rambling speech declining the honor.

6.   His rambling speech including an offer of money for states to continue with a police recruitment program using college tuition inducements.

7.   In a rambling speech, Rao never mentioned the earthquake, angering thousands of Congress Party loyalists.

8.   Olsen was given to long rambling speeches.

9.   The moment Avendano ended the rambling speech delivered over faulty loudspeakers, his peasant supporters dashed for trucks and buses that would carry them back to their land.

10.   The residents also held their own planning meetings, sometimes raucous affairs punctuated by rambling speeches and shouted threats.