Sentences with phrase «for orators»

These memory techniques were invented for orators 2,000 years ago.

In thinking through Cicero as an inspiration for conservatism, what it means for an orator to serve ethically begins with the setting of an example.

For the orator in chief the Copenhagen stage will offer a global spotlight and a tremendous opportunity, and there will be much demand for his presence.

Not exact matches

On Oct. 3, at a university in Denver, a man famous for his luxurious hair and wooden personality destroyed one of the great orators of our time in a one - on - one debate.

The aforementioned orator was, of course, Cato the Elder, a noted Roman senator and inveigher against the Carthaginians who clamored for the destruction of Rome's great challenger in what became the Third Punic War.

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In one are seven artes liberales characteristics of the orators» tradition:» (1) Training citizen - orators to lead society (2) requires identifying true virtues, (3) the commitment to which (4) will elevate the student and (5) the source for which is great texts, whose authority lies in (6) the dogmatic premise that they relate the true virtues, (7) which are embraced for their own sake.»

To exalt him as a great thinker, as though he could take delight in being praised for having honed his mental tools very sharp, no matter what they cut; to speak admiringly of him as an excellent orator, as though adeptness in the use of images were an enviable thing, no matter what they imaged; to do him reverence as a great student who learned from Newton and Locke and the Platonists, from nature itself, no matter what he learned — to honor him thus is to do him no honor that he could accept — or which, accepting, he would not thereafter bitterly rue.

While Quintilian's Institutes were designed to train the orator of the first century CE, they do present principles that set the standard for a variety of modes of oral performance, including the public performance of an apostolic letter or an oral gospel.

«5 All his life the minister needs to do battle against this gradual loss, for he knows that, as far as his preaching is concerned, it is better to have a child's eye than an orator's tongue.

For a logic and rhetoric based on a logical model, testimony can only be an alienation of meaning or, to speak the language of Aristotle in the Rhetoric, a means of non-technical proof, that is, external to all the arguments that the orator can invent.

To this characteristic of the probable Aristotle links a trait that we have already encountered: rhetoric, he says, enables one to «persuade the opposition,» not that the orator ought to plead indifferently for or against, but if he undertakes to persuade the listeners or the judge of something, he must anticipate the argument of his adversary in order to refute it.

While Churchill was a great orator, his words meant much back in those days but how soon does history tend to overlook such orations,,, For is it not a more wiser ambition to live freely among all religious persuasions and cling ever gently upon one's own independent literacies even though self - indulgence of the religious socialisms may give rises toward individualized dementia?

Still, and despite his heavy reliance on teleprompters for even brief talks, he quickly became known among supporters and sympathetic commentators as the nation's «orator - in - chief,» an office he filled by delivering lengthy and sometimes ponderous speeches at moments of apparent national crisis.

Audiences thronged the Chautauqua circuits to hear the colorful orators of the day on both sides of the controversy, and crowded into lecture halls for formal debates on such propositions as, «Resolved, That the earth and all life upon it are the result of evolution.»

A brilliant writer and orator, Jabotinsky argued impressively that Palestine on both sides of the Jordan should be made the place of salvation for the wretched Jews of eastern Europe rather than the Jewish «spiritual center» or «model community»» proclaimed by Ha - Am and Buber.

What would happen if... the institutional church sold their buildings and property, stopped paying career spiritual orators (pastors), and eliminated the need for miscellaneous staff?

Decades later, in 1899, Orator Francis Woodward bought the rights to Jell - O brand gelatin from Mr. Wait for $ 450.

Cruz, a master orator with a clear sense of mission, has angered elders in both parties for showing little deference to seniority and snatching the spotlight from more experienced political stalwarts.

The House has very few great orators today and, save for fixed - points such as the Budget, consideration of committing troops to war and those very rare debates, unwhipped, when matters of great moral importance are discussed, the game has moved away from the Chamber.

In Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer (Bloomsbury, # 20), Peter Clarke chronicles the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter of a century, his four - volume A History of the English - Speaking Peoples.

His biographers Michael Crick and Julian Critchley recount how, despite not having an innate gift for public speaking, he became a strong orator through much effort, which included practising his speeches in front of a mirror, listening to tape recordings of speeches by television administrator Charles Hill, and taking voice - coaching lessons from a vicar's wife.

And Churchill was a «celebrated journalist, a great orator and won the Nobel Prize for Literature.»

Bryan, three times candidate for the presidency of the U. S., the great Fundamentalist leader and orator, on one side.

He probably spoke for many when he compared the greatest political orator the world has ever known to our less - than - eloquent current president.

The Elizabethan era is a cloak for World War II moralizing, with the Spanish armada standing in for Hitler's quest for world power, and Elizabeth I as a Churchill - style orator calling all good free men into action against the powers of evil.

Nixon (Frank Langella, marvelous), prodded by his literary agent (Toby Jones) accepts for two reasons: 1) The skilled orator Nixon can walk all over the lightweight journalist and perhaps win back some respect, and 2) Frost has agreed to pay.

In a quiet alcove of the Bronx, far from the subways, she created a sculpture with space for unknown actors, a platform without an orator, a stage with the orchestra pit in the middle, a trap door without a hinge, and a monument to no one, not even to herself.

She has spoken of «being behind the scenes,» disappearing behind the work, or at least remaining anonymous, so that the paintings can speak for themselves: as she notes, «there is no orator.»

An arboretum for the senses, Fallah's A Stranger In Your Home serves as optical orator, incorporating his own complex identity as he takes on the stories of immigrants from around the world who -LSB-...]

Pujol is currently working on four new performance commissions for 2011 - 2012, including: Visitation, for the Spencer Museum of Art, a 6 - hour solo performance as an intervention throughout the museum of the embodied gaze of the artist; Walking Ground: Speaking in Silence, for the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, for 7 performers scattered throughout the city as public orators; Affinitas, a 2 - hour dance performance in honor of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in Boston; and a new American performance opera, Vortex, choreographed for 12 women.

Proficiency in public speaking is a necessity, as people have always been incredibly willing to follow the passionate orators in times past (for better and for worse).

Antonius engages in a detailed analysis of wit and the roles it plays in advocacy: it serves to win goodwill for the author; everyone admires acuteness which is often concentrated in a single word uttered either repelling or delivering attack; it shatters or obstructs or makes light of the opponent or alarms or repulses him; it shows the orator to be a man of finish, accomplishment and taste; and most of all it relieves dullness and tones down austerity.

Although you are probably not looking for a job as an orator, good verbal communication is important when talking to a recruiter.

(For example, an undergraduate degree in Theater doesn't make you a flaky unemployed actor, it makes you a potentially fantastic courtroom orator.)

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