They were an equestrian people.

Turn up the thermostat! We're all turning into popsicles in here!

They met semimonthly to discuss the latest developments.

It is, instead, a matter of developing a range of voices, of learning to ventriloquate i.e. to (re)construct utterances for our own purposes from the resources available to us' (Hall 1995: 218, emphasis in original).