lectern

When Valenzuela Jr. stood at the wooden lectern, he spoke only in Spanish, trying to hold back tears.

As bad as it looks on the page, it sounded and looked worse live, especially when taken in context with the unsteady way he had walked to his lectern, the barely audible voice he was speaking with, and the vacant, almost alarmed way he stared into the camera when Trump was talking:

Don’t go on too long and talk to the country, and not just the party, is the mission statement for the winner in front of the lectern.

The King had just walked away from a lectern to rejoin Queen Camilla sitting on the stage when Thorpe started shouting as she walked forwards from the back of the assembly.

“The heart of an athlete was the direct quote from my cardiologist,” Harbaugh told reporters, smiling and flexing at the lectern.