speechmaker
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She’s a reasonably good speechmaker, but she’s no Obama — by which I mean Michelle Obama, whose impassioned appeal dominated the first night’s proceedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2020
Hoffa, by contrast is different—he is the opposite of silent—not only is he a literal speechmaker at the rostrum, he’s a running-off-at-the-mouth talker in private, in one-on-ones and “business” meetings.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
In Virginia’s House of Burgesses, Jefferson gravitated to the radical Whig faction led by Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee, but distinguished himself as a brilliant political writer rather than speechmaker.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
As a speechmaker, said author Garry Wills, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his study of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, “I don’t know that she has any competitors in women’s history.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2016
Through all his life Washington was no speechmaker.
From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Ford, Paul Leicester
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