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During my professional life as a speechwriter, I often heard the point made that people hate written speeches and reward extemporaneousness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2017

He read it: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects."

From Mark Twain's Speeches by Twain, Mark

Because a few critical hearers sit with lead-pencils out to mark down the inaccuracies of extemporaneousness, shall the pulpit cower?

From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

I said: "Then for the sake of the family, if you have no feeling for me, you ought at least to allow me overtime on that word extemporaneousness."

From Mark Twain's Speeches by Twain, Mark

There is also a great deal in that self-possessed extemporaneousness which a man carries in his pocket on a sheet of paper.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)