Sentences with phrase «great orators»

There is no doubt that Lord Monkton is one of the world's great orators.

Republican state Senate Leader Dean Skelos called him «one of the great orators of our time.»

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.

Ingersoll was many things, such as a Union officer in the Civil War, the attorney general of Illinois, one of the great orators of his time (his «Plumed Knight» speech, in which he nominated James G. Blaine at the 1876 Republican convention, is one of the great political speeches of its time), Republican political leader, attorney, and atheist.

Some of the great orators of our time had the gifted ability to communicate as well as rally an entire nation.

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.

Each summer the greatest orators and teachers were brought there to lecture to thousands of people.

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?

We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obamaedited by e. j. dionne jr. and joy - ann reidbloomsbury, 376 pages, $ 25 The one thing we know about Barack Obama — at least, we think we know it — is that he is a great orator.

The health secretary is no great orator, and his conference speech passed with little fanfare.

Mannion said Cuomo is rightly remembered as a great orator and a powerful champion of progressive politics.

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

The elder Cuomo was one of the greatest orators of the last half - century.

I think his dad has been acknowledged as one of the greatest orators and deepest thinkers that we've had on the political stage in many years.

Prior to President Barak Obama, Mario Cumo was the greatest orator of my generation.

She's plausible enough, but seemingly neither a big thinker nor great orator.

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous «I Have a Dream» speech and established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.

Let's remember her love of life, and the powerful inspiration of her namesake, the great orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass who said, «Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.»

Even the greatest orators and speech makers all started in the same place, learning how to put one foot after the other as they made their way down the aisle, behind the curtain, up to the stage and utter the first line.

Not exact matches

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.

There the church was Latin - speaking and produced great writers and leaders such as Tertullian (c.160 - c. 225), who was brought up in Carthage, and Cyprian (d. 258), who was a pagan orator who was converted to Christianity in about 246 and who, two years later, was elected Bishop of Carthage.

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.

It is a strange fact, Featherstone observes, that most of today's neoconservatives defending great books and tradition — the curriculum of the orators — are really closet philosophers.

When Putnam heard the great atheist orator Robert Ingersoll, he heard «the interpretation of myself, like the glory of a summer day,» that announced, «The confusion of thought and feeling [is] at an end.»

It saw him as no more than «a demagogue and a great political orator» — hardly a man equipped to give Germany «that strong leadership it wants so badly.»

She encouraged him to keep a scrapbook on these orators and ensured his exposure to the great liberation leaders of his race.

Speaking of great conference speeches Simon Hoggart (p. 30) explores some of the greatest ones and explains why sketch writers love it when orators fluff their lines!

Something of the same passion pervades his very readable biography John Bright: Statesman, Orator, Agitator (IB Tauris, # 25)-- Bright was a cousin of his great - grandfather.

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

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Lincoln has two modes: the Great Emancipator as orator; and good ol' Abe as folksy Mark Twain storyteller.

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

Among those who died was the the great general, orator and statesman, Pericles, the defacto leader of Athens.

Delivering a presentation in front of a live audience demands a great deal of self - confidence that allows the orator to overcome his fears of failing.