intone

“The Roman salute is a thing,” she intoned, in case viewers weren’t picking up what she was putting down.

“Our patron saints and guardian angels, pray for us,” they intoned together.

“I love how you don’t do anything for me,” she intones, indicating the nature of their relationship, and providing a sense of the film’s dry, deadpan humor.

“I journeyed so long in my mind, but it was so dark in this foreign place,” he intones, in Fon, the nearly eradicated language of Dahomey, “that I lost myself in my dreams.”

“Whatever I do, I do for America,” he intones with smarmy conviction.