The orators who had advocated the war loudly triumphed in the seeming fulfilment of their sanguine predictions. |
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Portraits of famous Greek and Roman poets, orators, and statesmen filled libraries and peristyles. |
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They were skilled orators, inspired and inspiring interpreters of scripture, and miracle workers. |
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Instead, in the form of a symposium with other orators, he elaborates on the qualities of an effective speaker and an effective speech. |
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Those French orators engaged in the real matters of public concern address the king and the great nobles either from the pulpit or in parliament. |
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The masses were, in brief, shortsighted, selfish and fickle, an easy prey to unscrupulous orators who came to be known as demagogues. |
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Both were highly effective orators, but with markedly different techniques. |
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Public speeches by master orators were also very popular as a performing art. |
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In the years since, Atlas has carved a name for himself as one of the most eloquent orators on the sport. |
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From platforms across Europe orators thundered against Montjuic. |
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If truth be told, some of the most apparently passionate orators have their gestures under complete control. |
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Their grand staircases are often lined with busts of Roman orators, while on the ceilings frescoed men do civic things in togas. |
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He gives leave to speak to orators in the order in which they have demanded it. |
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This sort of writing is not so simple a thing as fluency, which soap-box orators have in abundance. |
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Custom demanded absolute silence during the lengthy speeches delivered by the best orators of each nation. |
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In his spare time, he read English literature and, in particular, the great orators. |
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It comes mainly from the orators, whose services as speech-writers were engaged by plaintiffs and defendants who happened to be wealthy enough to pay them. |
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It is not because one had awful speakers and the other superb orators. |
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These notable figures were gifted orators who spoke for their communities during negotiations with Europeans. |
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I will raise some of the key points that have emerged as I have listened to the various orators. |
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For 25 years now, the orators have changed but Quebec is still waiting and nothing has changed. |
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Aboriginal diplomats were talented orators and masters in the use of metaphor. |
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It is commonplace for orators to tell us that men's social skills have not kept up with their mechanical skills. |
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We have had a few other great orators who have come to this place from Newfoundland over the years. |
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Suddenly the reader is treated to a history of ties involving Roman orators and Croat mercenaries. |
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When you look at the Attic orators, the incantatory power of the shamans or mediacracy contemporaries, how can you still ignore the power of voice? |
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For example, Faneuil Hall, where great orators stumped their protests before the American Revolution, now anchors a pedestrian-friendly market full of shops and restaurants. |
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In the elected public realm, we've moved from the great thinkers and orators to deal brokers and compromisers who understand the pragmatics of building governments. |
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What too many orators want in depth, they will give you in length. |
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In many ways ours is a simple diet, but-as all the world knows-it has nourished a complex and remarkable assortment of poets and playwrights, politicians and pugilists, actors and orators, philosophers and wits. |
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Oratory was an art to be practiced and learnt, and good orators commanded respect. |
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ministers, if present at all, sit diagonally behind the orators, so that they can ignore them and catch up on some reading. |
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The irony about today's great house of commons men, whether great orators like Chatham or debaters like Fox, is that nobody outside the house hears what they say inside it, or much cares. |
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One of the greatest debaters, orators and communicators, who brought humour to politics, he was a man who effortlessly combined rock-like conviction with an openness to argument and a readiness to listen. |
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The greatest orators in history made careful preparation. |
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But it would deny the swapper a main part in Mr Lane Fox's brilliant book, where soldiers, poets and orators fight for attention in a story that is never cluttered and always stimulating. |
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Included in the collection were notable poets, grammarians, orators, historians, and philosophers. |
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The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point. |
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Women are proverbial for tonguely gifts, and orators do not require very great depth. |
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Despite this, the great majority of advice and directions given by the classical orators was aimed towards improving the efficacy of legal discourse. |
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Not all captains are great orators, Bobby Moore wasn't a rabble-rousing captain at all, but he was a really nice guy who everybody liked and followed his example. |
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The Forum was also a place where orators would express themselves to mould public opinion, and elicit support for any particular issue of interest to them or others. |
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Established in 1850 by Edwin Lawrence Godkin, the society has been very successful and produced some of the finest orators within Northern Ireland. |
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