oratory

Original oratory is supposed to be on a topic the speaker cares deeply about, and I remember being one of the few who gave a very personal one.

For his oratory work he was paid over $1.3 million (a significant amount of which he donated to charity).

No amount of sweet-sounding oratory is going to disabuse him of his hard-driving partisan agenda.

He launches into a flight of oratory on the past greatness of Petra.

And for good reason: images of the crowd at political conventions can be as important as the oratory.

That kind of oratory is not necessarily unusual in Arab countries, even those at peace with Israel.

Academies are to universities as maturity is to childhood, oratory to grammar, or politeness to the first lessons in civility.

It was one of the triumphs of Bright's oratory that it constantly produced these popular cries.

Thus in oratory as in history the ancients can boast of most illustrious examples, never even equalled.

Socrates insisted upon the gift of oratory for a general in the army as well as for a leader in political life.

The Speaker's speech was far from any oratory, but was as plain (though good matter) as any thing could be, and void of elocution.