1.   Although the film has lavish sound effects, it has no spoken dialogue.

2.   An operetta is shorter, and there is some spoken dialogue.

3.   A Cologne Opera production of the light opera with spoken dialogue will open Saturday at the Los Angeles Music Center.

4.   A lot of writers are not really marvelous at spoken dialogue.

5.   But already in Act I her singing was tonally hard, and her spoken dialogue was mechanical singsong.

6.   But mixing large spans of spoken dialogue into opera is never easy.

7.   He writes and directs films that are as defined by their psychological silences and ellipses as their spoken dialogue.

8.   In the modern audible feature film, especially as made by Hollywood, spoken dialogue tends more and more to function as the old title cards of the silents.

9.   My guess is that about two-thirds of it is sung, and much of the spoken dialogue is accompanied by the orchestra.

10.   Scattered throughout the album are bits of spoken dialogue, which sound as if they were culled from cult films but were really created for the album.