Sentences with phrase «orator on»

fumes Republican congressman Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones), a vocal abolitionist and a withering orator on the floor.

«W.Hague - who will not have acted without the agreement of Andy Coulson and George Osborne» - as Hague is the only good orator on our side I hope it was just a question of the other two getting an advanced copy of his speech and not Hague taking any advice from those two.

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On the contrary, this passage appears to be designed as a repudiation of identity between Jeremiah and any prophesying madmen, whether occasional ecstatic orators in the temple area or attached personnel.

«A microphone allows its user to impose his voice... on many more people than an ancient orator could,» White writes, and it's certainly true.

A microphone allows its user to impose his voice, and thereby his thought and personality, on many more people than an ancient orator could.

Hearing the story of the conversion of the famous orator Simplicianus, Augustine was on fire to be like him.»

The claim that «Jesus was not a pacifist» is an example of the fallacy of ambiguity, sometimes also referred to as equivocation, where an orator tries to build his argument on the uncertainty of words or on a term that has multiple meanings.

It is infinitely comic that an orator, with truth in his voice and in the expression of his features, profoundly touched and profoundly touching, can present the truth in a heart - rending way, can tread all evil and all the powers of hell under his feet, with an aplomb in his attitude, an assurance in his glance, a resoluteness in his step, which is altogether admirable — it is infinitely comic that almost at the same moment, almost «with his dressing - gown still on,» he can run cowardly and timidly out of the way of the least inconvenience.

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.

Obama, the master orator, has now been defeated on his own chosen ground.

The success of a movement that will turn the world upside down by means of a message, a «gospel,» would seem to require orators and wordsmiths, not a bunch of agrammatoi and idiotai who respond first by trying to beg off on account of their uncircumcised and unclean lips.

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.

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

Mario Cuomo famously said «you campaign in poetry; you govern in prose» and if he was the orator, his son is the operator, the one who passes state budgets on time and — as when he resolved a threatened Long Island Rail Road strike last year — makes trains run on schedule.

The most senior and effective political orators are also able to call on the services of brilliant speech writers so those with the most interesting ideas and the most deft delivery also have the most effective content.

Perhaps not the best example to follow to gain power, but as one of the finest orators in British politics, I'll recommend his advice on this occasion.

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.

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

Centered on famed orator and robust wit Winston Churchill — Prime Minister during one of Britain's most trying moments — Darkest Hour isn't afraid to wield its sharp dialogue, any more than Churchill was himself.

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.

How to deliver a powerful speech on the positive and negative effects of Social media being an 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-...]

The exhibition consists of paintings, works on paper, a scent and audio, relating to the world surrounding the mystical thinker and orator, G.I. Gurdjieff (1877 - 1949).

* per reeds man, composer and orator Rahsaan Roland Kirk's grand rhetorical spelling on his 1972 Atlantic album of the same name.

She's an artist who pushes the medium of painting in a variety of directions — taking on methods of storytelling that are perhaps more closely linked to the function of historical or even religious artworks, as well as print media, as orators.

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.

Campbell: Analogy is generally more successful in silencing objections than in evincing truth, and on this account may more properly be styled the defensive arms of the orator than the offensive.

The label on the Lawyer's Breath bottle promises it will «bring out the orator in you» but that «your breath will not reek of broken promises and hidden clauses.»

If therefore the student in our laws hath formed both his sentiments and style, by perusal and imitation of the purest classical writers, among whom the historians and orators will best deserve his regard; if he can reason with precision, and separate argument from fallacy, by the clear simple rules of pure unsophisticated logic; if he can fix his attention, and steadily pursue truth through any the most intricate deduction, by the use of mathematical demonstrations; if he has enlarged his conceptions of nature and art, by a view of the several branches of genuine, experimental, philosophy; if he has impressed on his mind the sound maxims of the law of nature, the best and most authentic foundation of human laws; if, lastly, he has contemplated those maxims reduced to a practical system in the laws of imperial Rome; if he has done this, or any part of it, (though all may be easily done under as able instructors as ever graced any feats of learning) a student thus qualified may enter upon the study of the law with incredible advantage and reputation.

He is also ranked by Chambers Europe, where sources describe him as «completely at ease» on complex cases, while clients appreciate his «good preparation and ethical approach» and praise him as «an excellent orator».

More often they were by ministers — but largely across the board, the orators focused on the political and constitutional lessons and role of cemeteries.