Sentences with phrase «of political oratory»
As a piece of political oratory, the short, upbeat speech that ex-Republican former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist delivered at the Democratic Convention Thursday worked pretty well.
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Viewed in isolation, the exaggerated gestures and impassioned words of political oratory fall relatively flat and, as such, the audience is left to consider whether the mingling of both speech and gesture - and the bewitching effect they trigger - constitutes an indirect form of witchcraft as seen in the political speeches we come across on television.
Cuomo's speeches from that period — his 1984 Democratic Convention keynote, his Notre Dame lecture on abortion, his Harvard class - day address — were jewels of political oratory, as moving as they were erudite.
The gentleman from New York sought recognition to deliver, without warning, one of the most extraordinary pieces of political oratory in recent memory.
It deprived them of the power of political oratory, which in turn deprived the audience of the fun of watching such a debate.
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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.
I attended the annual Brotherhood Awards dinner of the National Conference of Christians and Jews some years ago only to discover that the governor of Virginia used this forum for an exercise in cheap political oratory.
As part of a project supported by The Leverhulme Trust he has developed the website www.britishpoliticalspeech.org and is working to promote the theory, analysis and improved practice of political speech, oratory and argument in the UK.
He's more unelectable than Neil Kinnock was; and Kinnock had considerable powers of oratory, and didn't lack political courage.»
But as the comments rippled through New York's political class on Tuesday, some were taken aback at the mayor's ratcheting - up of oratory.
No mention is made of how this will affect future political campaigns or oratory in Congress.