Thesaurus / oratory
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Mario Cuomo’s charisma and oratory could carry the day in his heyday.
ANDREW CUOMO IS CALLING IT QUITS IN ALBANY. BUT THE POLITICAL DYNASTY MAY ENDUREPHILIP ELLIOTTAUGUST 11, 2021TIMEOriginal oratory is supposed to be on a topic the speaker cares deeply about, and I remember being one of the few who gave a very personal one.
‘I’M GOING TO SAY IT FROM THE HEART.’ AMERICA’S RECKONING ON RACE HAS COME TO HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH AND DEBATEBRIAN SETO MCGRATHDECEMBER 25, 2020TIMEOnce-predictable high school oratory is starting to reflect a wider shift in how Americans talk about race, gender and the distribution of power in the United States—even if not everyone wants to hear what these young speakers have to say.
‘I’M GOING TO SAY IT FROM THE HEART.’ AMERICA’S RECKONING ON RACE HAS COME TO HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH AND DEBATEBRIAN SETO MCGRATHDECEMBER 25, 2020TIMEYou got kids in oratory writing about their undocumented parents.
‘I’M GOING TO SAY IT FROM THE HEART.’ AMERICA’S RECKONING ON RACE HAS COME TO HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH AND DEBATEBRIAN SETO MCGRATHDECEMBER 25, 2020TIMEThese oratories draw clear lines between speaker and audience, and their solutions do not always invite easy agreement.
‘I’M GOING TO SAY IT FROM THE HEART.’ AMERICA’S RECKONING ON RACE HAS COME TO HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH AND DEBATEBRIAN SETO MCGRATHDECEMBER 25, 2020TIMEThe vice president’s oratory made him “a singularly divisive national figure,” the authors write.
VICE PRESIDENT AGNEW’S MISDEEDS, AND THE CHALLENGES OF HOLDING HIM ACCOUNTABLEMATTHEW DALLEKDECEMBER 18, 2020WASHINGTON POSTWhen his efforts at compromise failed, he said, some in his party wondered what had happened to the oratory that twice got him elected president.
OBAMA, IN WASHINGTON POST INTERVIEW, REJECTS CRITICISM HE DIDN’T PUSH HARD ENOUGH FOR DEMOCRATIC POLICIESMICHAEL KRANISH, PAULINA FIROZINOVEMBER 23, 2020WASHINGTON POSTAcademies are to universities as maturity is to childhood, oratory to grammar, or politeness to the first lessons in civility.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)It was one of the triumphs of Bright's oratory that it constantly produced these popular cries.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUSThus in oratory as in history the ancients can boast of most illustrious examples, never even equalled.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORDWORDS RELATED TO ORATORY
- ability
- appeal
- articulation
- command of language
- delivery
- diction
- dramatic
- expression
- expressiveness
- expressivity
- facility
- fervor
- flow
- fluency
- force
- forcefulness
- gift of gab
- grandiloquence
- loquacity
- meaningfulness
- mellifluousness
- oration
- oratory
- passion
- persuasiveness
- poise
- power
- rhetoric
- spirit
- style
- vigor
- vivacity
- volubility
- wit
- wittiness
- address
- allocution
- appeal
- bombast
- chalk talk
- commentary
- debate
- declamation
- diatribe
- discourse
- disquisition
- dissertation
- eulogy
- exhortation
- harangue
- homily
- invocation
- keynote
- lecture
- opus
- oration
- oratory
- panegyric
- paper
- parlance
- parley
- pep talk
- pitch
- recitation
- rhetoric
- salutation
- sermon
- spiel
- stump
- talk
- tirade
- valedictory
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