Sentences with phrase «much oratory»

The weekend of my visit the town politiqueros (bosses of the political machine) threw a «miners» fiesta,» which included much oratory, drinking and a beauty contest.

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Presidential oratory provides much of the supporting evidence for McDougall's ideas about civil religion, from President William McKinley's implication that the United States had not so much conquered Cubans as it had ministered to them («Are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?»)
The sociology of the religious group of the second power, to use de Grasserie's terminology (collegia, associations, brotherhoods, oratories and the like), offers a wide open field and should be developed much more than it has been hitherto.
He was elected because of his strong oratory skills, yet we've found out that, policy wise, there was not much going on in that head of his.
Much has been written about Cuomo as a public speaker vis - a-vis his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, was infamous for his soaring oratory.
«Andrew Cuomo as governor has always been much more about getting the job done than the soaring oratory that will move a convention hall to tears.»
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