LEAD: RAP MUSIC'S emphatic, stripped-down speech rhythms are bringing an economy and urgency of gesture and line to the spacious sonic architecture of dub-style reggae.

If the schoolmaster at large is grey and dull, shirking interesting topics and emphatic speech, what must he be like in the monotonous class-room?

Heffer,already shocked at Ned's emphatic little speech, ran his tongue over his teeth as the muscles of his face worked hard to pull it into a reassuring smile.

It seemed off key, with a bit of a snarl that didn't fit with Warrendale's usually emphatic speech.

Throughout the piece Ms. Stoklos, who calls her style of theater essentialist, embodies a life-affirming everyperson with stylized, exaggerated body language and emphatic heavily accented speech that suggest a weird dichotomy between the physical and the mental.

Abdallah Baali, the ambassador of Algeria, caused consternation among the G-4 countries with an emphatic speech on Wednesday saying the veto and the additional two nonpermanent seats were nonnegotiable items for the Africans.

"I will just say yes," she said with the emphatic speech of a teacher, "and leave it at that."

There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet by an irregular Catalinarian gait; by irregular, faltering, disturbed speech, too emphatic for the occasion.

He, at least, wasted no time on ceremony, but, springing from the saddle immediately, mixed with the group of officers, and fell into emphatic though confidential speech.

The jota is velar: [x] (resembled Castilian) in emphatic or grumpy speech, especially before 'a', 'o' and 'u'.