Sentences with word «oratory»

Oratory is the art of public speaking and giving speeches. It involves effectively communicating and persuading an audience through spoken words. Full definition
The speech is considered one of the great pieces of oratory in American history, and a thought about Buffalo was near the heart of it.
«Inconsequential technicality» leads to quashing of schools adjudicator decision on London Oratory School.
Maybe with the few great movers and shakers of today along with the one presidential candidate and his VP pick, both of whom provide models, again, of the power of education and literacy, of restoring peace and dialogue as the first order, we can restore not only the impeccable English written and oratory skills of yesterday, but also restore our sense of obligation for caring about our one, finite planet.
The gentleman from New York sought recognition to deliver, without warning, one of the most extraordinary pieces of political oratory in recent memory.
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.
Yet he admits that the use of classical rhetoric has its limitations and problems, especially in establishing the conscious use of standards for oratory in the writing of narratives and letters.
As much as lawyers lionize themselves in the media — pointing to the tenacity of Jack McCoy, the soaring oratory of Jake Brigance, and... whatever the hell those How To Get Away With Murder morons are doing — deep down lawyers know that the bulk of the profession involves document review, rote agreement - drafting tasks, and data mining caselaw.
Fr James Tolhurst is the General Editor of the Newman Birmingham Oratory Millennium Edition.
The new school Oratory provided us with a fine venue but in future years I would have placed Confession in the context of a retreat away from the school.
More than fifty years ago, Peter Sellers brilliantly caricatured this kind of oratory with «we must build but we must build surely».
The African reality of a wholistic as opposed to a secular and a sacred life, the place of the black church as sole as well as «soul» refuge during slavery, and the gift of oratory made the preacher the symbolic head and heart of his people.
It featured persuasive articulation of points, brilliant elocution, and captivating oratory by the participating students.
Dropping the mic would necessitate cultivating the art of classical oratory as well as constructing sanctuaries designed to carry the human voice, just as the use of the microphone (I would suggest) has relegated homiletics to an afterthought for many seminarians and encouraged uninspired ecclesiastical architecture.
After her marriage on the 28 May 1955, at Brompton Oratory in London, she and her husband settled down in Kent where she ran her own riding school.
The extensive use of dramatic illustration; the change of pace from oratory to the chatty style; the minimizing of liturgical elements in the service; the use of architecture and furnishings to center attention on the preacher: these were characteristic of the late nineteenth century, and have continued into the twentieth.
And I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Burke speech of 1774 - great oratory espousing principles which have endured.
The original King speeches are owned by another studio so those delivered here by Oyelowo have been re-written and revised, yet the words and Oyelowo's powerful oratory deliver the message loud and clear.
The public speaking coach Patricia Fripp advised me that it's the first and last 30 seconds that have the highest impact of any public oratory, and that «The premise of your story should be that customers will be better off after using your company».
A word of caution here from CJ regarding the sceptics» who «lapse into oratory», but he clearly shares the belief that those who warn of serious impacts of global warming should be labelled alarmist, while at the same time being affronted at the label denialist.
I am a big fan of good oratory and as a student in the early 1980s used to take girlfriends to see a Tony Benn speech for a good night out.
In his renovation, a striking baldacchino of copper, brass, aluminum, and steel rods over the altar serves the same purpose as does the light shaft in the Grailville Oratory.
The provenance of some of this concern is perhaps unsurprising given that the crowds who came (over 6000 to the Oxford Oratory, for instance) included a minority of Senior Citizens, who might possibly remember the cult of relics from their youth, but was mainly made up by the young and middle - aged.
Their rhetoric united Holy Ghost anointing with skilled pulpit oratory.
No amount of increased police protection or political oratory about law and order will ever heal that sickness.
And in doing so, they actually develop more eloquent oratory skills.
During his time as Conservative party leader, William Hague won widespread plaudits for his sparkling parliamentary oratory.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's DNC speech is a high - stakes appearance before a national audience, made riskier because some Democrats will expect oratory perfection as if it is a Cuomo birthright, remembering his father's star turn on the convention stage in 1984.
It is a high - stakes speech before a national audience, made riskier because some Dems will expect oratory perfection as if it is a Cuomo birthright.
For those special occasions, elegant private dinners, business lunches, working breakfasts or leisurely afternoon teas, the circular Oratory, with its ornate vaulted ceiling and wood panelling is ideal.
-LSB-...] The four paintings here that make up a specific aspect of Jenkins» contemplative vision can not be called empty oratory; instead, their tenacious pursuit of the artist's vision should be read as a challenge to us all: to see with more than our actual eyes.»
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.
The only important error Singletary made was buying into the outdated idea that professional athletes can be spurred to better performances by locker - room oratory or other motivational mind games.
Seen simplistically, it has been the text for stirring oratory from many a pulpit on the evils of profanity, even though it has almost nothing to do with profanity.
Teachers should include a lot of hands on learning, oratory reports, visual and STEM based projects.
This is not Billy Graham - style oratory designed to impress a stadium full of people.
First, that repetition is one of the simplest ways of reinforcing any point — which can be seen through history across oratory and poetry.
It will be slim pickings at George Washington School, with only oratory to feed the masses.
If you want to elevate your public speaking skills, here are five of the best apps to catapult you to oratory glory (hey, that rhymes — don't worry, I'm not giving up my day - job).
(For the first time in more than a decade, he came here without the PMO to distribute prepared text of the speech; Maclean's transcribed the short oratory, below.)
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?»)
«He disdained high flowering oratory, complicated metaphors or many jokes.He spoke with gravity, and seriousness about our need and God's solution.»
And so, the next morning, as ice covered the trees outside, I walked to the little oratory down the hall, where Father John celebrated Mass for me.

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