Sentences with phrase «as oratorical»

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Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognised as such by all the major cultures of the world.

Conte looks cool as a cucumber, haven't seen him rattled once when speaking, Wenger might have met his oratorical match here.

Minority Leader Hector Rodriguez, Democrat of New Paltz, had the oratorical edge over Majority Leader Mary Beth Maio, Republican of Highland — if only as the one - eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.

In a party that produced such talented speakers as Mario Cuomo, Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, this year's presidential race looks like a slog through an oratorical desert.

While Mondale's candidacy stumbled, Cuomo took his oratorical skill to Notre Dame University, where as the nation's most famous Roman Catholic supporter of abortion rights, he argued the church should not expect him to press for outlawing abortions, given that many Catholics themselves were having them.

«American Cicero» examines the speeches that catapulted Cuomo to the top echelons of U.S. politics and convinced many that his oratorical powers qualified him as presidential timber.

He's an easy - going type — quick to tell a pointed or completely irrelevant story to help make his case or diminish the tension in the room (Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, played by Bruce McGill, becomes so fed up with this trait that he must leave the room as they wait for news on the attack on Fort Fisher)-- who can still command a space with oratorical flair.

Markus, having grown up around radical workers» meetings, attended meetings of the IWW, including anarchists such as Bill Haywood and Emma Goldman, where he developed strong oratorical skills he would later use in defence of Surrealism.

Although it dates back to the medieval performances of court minstrels and travelling troubadours (if not to the oratorical performances of Classical Antiquity), modern Performance Art owes its existence to the activities of avant - garde movements such as Futurism (c.1909 - 14), Dada (1916 - 24), Surrealist Automatism (1924 - 40), Nouveau Realisme (early 1960s), Fluxus (1960s), Neo-Dada (1960s), Body Art (from 1960) and Feminist Art (1970 onwards).

In addition, there are hundreds of handwritten index note cards, possibly used for reference as Dr. King developed his many oratorical speeches and academic assignments, and many more typed and handwritten manuscripts and items, including: a telegram from President Lyndon B. Johnson inviting him to the signing of the voting rights act in 1965; handwritten edits of eulogies delivered on behalf of martyred adults and children of the Civil Rights Movement; drafts of numerous sermons, famous speeches; «to - do» lists for civil rights leaders the Rev. Joseph Lowery, Walter Fauntroy and Andrew Young; credit card receipts; travel coupons; examination blue books from college and even the cosmetics containers of found within a suitcase and briefcase used when he traveled.

He entered Parliament as a Whig at an early age but his oratorical skills failed to impress his Parliamentary colleagues.