He was a skilled orator and yet a three-hour speech left his listeners with memories of just a few sentences. |
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He was an assured front-bench performer, which is a different thing from simply being an orator. |
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Her life achievements were outlined by the university's public orator, Professor Vivian de Klerk. |
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Truth, also born into slavery, was an abolitionist and the first Black female orator to speak out against slavery. |
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One of the great American traditions that has gone the way of hoop skirts and top hats is that of the Fourth of July orator. |
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Here was Bruni displaying his rhetorical skills as a Ciceronian orator, conducting a formal exercise in rhetoric and dialectic. |
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Teams from nine schools are competing for the title of best orator in the business milieu. |
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This can be the combination of orator, humorist, speech writer, or playwright. |
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He is a wooden, boring, uninspiring, unconvincing orator, who completely lacked the common touch or any real ability to communicate with voters. |
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Then, with the skill of an experienced orator, he lowers his voice and leans across the table. |
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High points include the assessment of the orator Cassius Severus and his comparative failure as a declaimer. |
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Lincoln, seeing this masterly orator of mixed-race ancestry, would most likely first have been reminded of his exceptional friend, Douglass. |
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After a couple of nights of moderation, both in political tone and the orator, they're starting to take the gloves off tonight. |
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She stared and directed her resonant voice into the distance as if to an unseen audience, and modulated her tones like an orator. |
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You get this flurry of gesticulatory activity, followed by a raising of the eyebrows and a widening of the eyes as the orator pauses. |
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Meanwhile the Prime Minister, no orator but a politician with an actor's empathy for public mood, acts on his instincts. |
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At times, he has been a thorn in the side of successive political leaders, but as an orator he is one of the best crowd-pullers in the party. |
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James Dillon in his heyday was about the only orator of modern times to match such eloquence. |
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Lincoln was a skilled orator, brilliant at fashioning American constitutionalism into a rhetorical sword that could save the Union. |
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At the UN, it doesn't matter whether you speak only French and the orator is waxing eloquent in Chinese. |
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Chief Seattle, a Suquamish Indian who lived on the Puget Sound outside the city that bears his name, was a skilled diplomat and a great orator. |
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The eloquent orator far prefers to work from a few scribbled notes rather than stick to a pre-prepared speech. |
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The miniature was a gift from the forty-year-old artist to her famous and frequent client, the orator and public servant Daniel Webster. |
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The great orator, Wendell Phillips, held the interest of his audience not only by what he said, but by his pleasing and fascinating voice. |
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An attractive orator and accomplished trial lawyer, Edwards can now effectively compete for the nomination. |
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A forceful orator and an advocate of the strenuous life, Roosevelt with his bushy mustache, pince-nez, and wide, toothy grin was a caricaturist's delight. |
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And the truth is he will never become a cool, smooth, silver-tongued orator. |
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However, by 384 Augustine was unsatisfied and he broke away from the Manichees to open the New Academy, a school of rhetoric, in which he became the official orator of Milan. |
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He is a hard worker, a decent bloke, cautious to the core, a mediator, a facilitator and without a scrap of charisma, a boring, grating speaker and bad orator. |
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A spellbinding orator and a man of great charisma, he was able to whip up crowds with his fervent speeches about the colonial exploitation of his country. |
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Lecturing to the packed Images Theatre and in a subsequent on-stage interview with the Peak, he showed himself to be a skilled orator as he challenged prevailing ideology. |
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A great orator and man of the theatre, Jimmy won many awards in drama festivals during the fifties and sixties, winning the best actor award on more than one occasion. |
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Up at Speaker's Corner the audience numbered only six, so there was no need for one over-optimistic orator to have brought a stepladder along with him. |
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No memorized list of rhetorical devices will make an orator of a student who cannot grasp and creatively imitate the structure of a twenty-minute speech. |
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Wilson is a natural orator, and the finest passages in the book are elegiac songs of life and wistful recollections of lost habitats, extinct flora and fauna. |
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Cicero was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, orator, political theorist, Roman consul and constitutionalist. |
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Lutatius Catulus and the orator Marcus Antonius, grandfather of Mark Antony. |
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Cicero, Roman orator and lawyer who served as consul and exposed the Second Catilinarian conspiracy. |
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His skill as an orator, which was praised by his good friend Pliny, no doubt contributes to his supreme mastery of the Latin language. |
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Antony had occupied the high offices of questor and tribune, the first calling for literary ability, the second for skill as an orator. |
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Cobden had the calmness and confidence of the political philosopher, Bright had the passion and the fervour of the popular orator. |
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He was a nationally known orator, pulpiteer and playwright, producing religious dramas throughout the country. |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. |
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This was the seducer in him, the orator with the tongue of an angel, the belletrist of the conscious mind. |
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They have never sat in a large lecture hall with a spellbinding orator. |
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Every character, from the boisterous blasphemings of Bajazet to the shrinking timidity of womanhood, must play the orator. |
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The busy orator and mother of two couldn't get around to her unfinished speech. |
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Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. |
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It is likely to be early work, indebted to the author's rhetorical training, since its style imitates that of the foremost Roman orator Cicero. |
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Participants in such organizations had partes or shares, a concept mentioned various times by the statesman and orator Cicero. |
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Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. |
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He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. |
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Historians such as Kershaw emphasise the psychological impact of Hitler's skill as an orator. |
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Fleming was a famously poor communicator and orator, which meant his findings were not initially given much attention. |
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He joined the society's executive committee in January 1885, and later that year recruited Webb and also Annie Besant, a fine orator. |
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Gladstone served as President of the Oxford Union, where he developed a reputation as an orator, which followed him into the House of Commons. |
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He was widely known as a brilliant orator, an outstanding sportsman and marksman, a writer and historian, connoisseur and collector. |
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Tullius Cicero, brother of the orator Marcus, were wintering amongst the Nervii. |
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I'm not surprised at that statement from this silver-tongued orator, but I am amazed that there are still so many people willing to let him make fools of them. |
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Like Tanner he is an orator, an outsider, a rebel against the existing political and social order, who believes that society misdistributes wealth horribly. |
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During his tenure, he reached the height of his fame as an orator when he delivered the funeral oration for the famous veteran soldier Lucius Verginius Rufus. |
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In September, the leading Optimate orator Marcus Tullius Cicero began to attack Antony in a series of speeches portraying him as a threat to the Republican order. |
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Instead, the orator proclaims that Constantine experienced a divine vision of Apollo and Victory granting him laurel wreaths of health and a long reign. |
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It has occurred to me that the orator, at these Celebration of Life Services, would find, on possibly rare occasions, that he had been left with little to perorate about. |
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