During 1838 he toured the country raising the movement's profile with his brilliant oratory. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
He loved the sound of his own oratory. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
My oratory is so persuasive that I win by a whole 40 votes. From Wordnik.com. ["Ming's Memoirs" from The Liberal Revue] Reference
Churchill's mature oratory is swift, unerring in its aim, and moving in its grandeur. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 - Presentation Speech] Reference
After-dinner oratory is not going to do it, nor the windy harangue of every peripatetic agitator. From Wordnik.com. [Three Imperial Topics: Imperial Ignorance; Imperial History; Imperial Unity] Reference
"Come and see our chapel, Claire," said Abby; the word oratory did not yet come trippingly to her tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference
The power of his oratory was a revelation to the lad. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
To me his oratory was a perfect surprise and curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
No doubt KK would say the oratory is a dead end as well. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-17] Reference
It was not what you could describe as oratory or eloquence. From Wordnik.com. [Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator.] Reference
His oratory is his own, and apparently formed after the model of no single person. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-slavery Movement; His Labors in Great Britain as Well as in His Own Country; His Experience in the Conduct of an Influential Newspaper; His Connection with the Underground Railroad; His Relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; His Recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiments; His Interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; His Appointment by Gen. Grant to Accompany the Santo Domingo Commission--Also to a Seat in the Council of the District of Columbia; His Appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; Also His Appointment to Be Recorder of Deeds in Washington by President J. A. Garfield; with Many Other Interesting and Important Events of His Most Eventful Life; With an Introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin, of Boston] Reference
He called oratory a lost art, and to prove his contention he quoted from William Jennings. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
The columns seem more explanatory than oratory, which is a bit easier to take, certainly. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Black Static 03 - Andy Cox] Reference
You may also translate history, in so far as it is not embellished with oratory, which is poetical. From Wordnik.com. [Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood] Reference
Even the supposedly courageous and thorough NY Times calls his oratory "racist" in an editorial in today's paper. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Winer: Why Is It So Quiet After the Moyers-Wright Interview?] Reference
Your fiery oratory is needed to give this dude a pep talk … uhhh … sans the 1960’s power-fist overtones please. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Obama: I’d rather be a ‘really good one-term president’ than ‘mediocre two-term president.’] Reference
The appealing element in Barack Obama’s oratory is his call for putting aside the obsolescent quarrels of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Retrograde Future] Reference
And their practical statesmanship gave an early encouragement to oratory, which is peculiarly the literature of active life. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
Many glowing harangues were made by the chiefs, which gave scope to their peculiar oratory, which is well worth the preserving. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
The oratory is gonna be dazzling. From Wordnik.com. [Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Big Head Ed] Reference
Perhaps they should have said 'oratory' or 'poetry'. From Wordnik.com. [The Empire, part 4] Reference
Came across your blog when Googling 'oratory' and 'interviews'. From Wordnik.com. [auntie joanna writes] Reference
If the different kinds are common to each kind of oratory, what are they?. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
It has a timbre that says much about the kind of oratory Cage specialized in. From Wordnik.com. [Disquiet » John Cage Lecture MP3] Reference
It's not his oratory which is persuasive, it is the intelligence of the content. From Wordnik.com. [Full Text Of Obama's Berlin Speech] Reference
In that kind of oratory he excelled most of his contemporaries -- indeed, he had no equals in the State. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896] Reference
But this kind of oratory is neither to be wholly appropriated to forensic causes, nor is it entirely to be repudiated. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
Even the supposedly courageous and thorough NY Times calls his oratory “racist” in an editorial in today’s paper. From Wordnik.com. [Scripting News for 4/26/2008 « Scripting News Annex] Reference
Folklore is defined as "giving to animals and things human sense"; an elegy means "a eulogy," oratory, "the deliverance of words.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
And Teddy Kennedy, of course, is a throwback to not only a generation of American politics, but a whole kind of oratory that's really. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Are the Democrats Having a Successful Convention? - August 16, 2000] Reference
Great oratory is loved and valued. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare the African] Reference
Nevertheless there was a kind of oratory to fit the case. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
Obama is all about "oratory" ... clean and articulate as Biden says. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
I am the concentrated essence of modernism and have no use for 'oratory' or. From Wordnik.com. [Senator North] Reference
And in the context of a sermon, of this kind of oratory, some exaggeration for effect is part of the idiom. From Wordnik.com. [Politics Daily] Reference
McCain's speech was not the rousing kind of oratory like Palin's or Obama's but it was thoughtful and genuine. From Wordnik.com. [NW Republican] Reference
The origin of the word is to be found in the "oratory," or place of prayer, where these compositions were first performed. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers] Reference
Cavour's speeches on the new loan were, in reality, addressed to Europe, and no one was more skilful in this kind of oratory than he. From Wordnik.com. [Cavour]
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