stem-winding
- a variation of stemwinding.
Example Sentences
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It would not have been lost on the stem-winding King, likewise from Georgia, that he and “Purlie Victorious” had something in common.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
After one particularly stem-winding speech that I delivered at the downtown Rotary Club in Pensacola, Fla., three-star admiral Jack Fetterman took me aside and gently offered advice that I carry with me a quarter-century later.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2019
And finally, Jason Robards’s two stem-winding monologues—galvanized versions of Bradlee’s quotations scattered through the book—drive home the movie’s core themes about journalism’s necessary balance of canny brinkmanship with social responsibility.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 27, 2018
Finally, Hitler settled on Max Amann, a good businessman but no stem-winding speaker, to open the big evening.
From Time ● Jan. 26, 2016
The animating figure was Caltech chemist Linus Pauling, a Nobel laureate known for his strong leftist views and stem-winding oratorical flair.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
