orator
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Handsome and dynamic, an orator with a flair for memorable rhyme, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was the first Black candidate for president to attract a major following.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026
A gifted orator, Jackson articulated the frustrations of those who felt like second-class citizens in the world's most prosperous democracy.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
King’s “I Have a Dream” speech exemplified his prowess as an orator.
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026
Therein lies a dilemma, because Franco was not an especially compelling orator or a magnetic, mercurial personality after the fashion of Hitler, Mussolini and, you know, others we could name.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025
The Reverend Dameron, a Dickensian personage, an unctuous and jolly brimstone-and-damnation orator, was minister of the Grandview Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kansas, the church the Andrews family attended regularly.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
This period saw a brilliant revitalization by Roman writers and orators of older Greek rhetorical techniques; it was “tinged with a romanticism common to movements oriented toward the distant past.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
I often return to the wisdom of Frederick Douglass, a formerly enslaved person and one of this country’s greatest thinkers and orators.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
Luckily, he’s a once-in-a-generation political talent himself and one of the greatest orators in modern life.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2024
One book described how orators in ancient Rome would use “loci,” or reference points, to remember long passages.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023
Luminaries, orators, and artists started attending the Saturday-night discussions on the negro question.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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