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
This play, shown last year at Clubbed Thumb Summerworks, returns Ms. Schreck to her roots as a high school speechmaker, touring American Legion halls to earn cash for college.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2018
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
A political speechmaker occupied the bandstand one night, and they stood for an hour in the midst of the crowd, listening vaguely.
From Ramsey Milholland by Tarkington, Booth
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