Oprah Winfrey's speech embodied the best traditions of American oratory.
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He brings oratory and a common touch she cannot match.
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Oratory has its own entrance, with its own door criteria.
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Three weeks later, Archbishop Lorefice called to offer the oratory.
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Wine oratory and pretentiousness are never welcome, though judgment always is.
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Mr. Castro regularly fanned the flames of revolution with his oratory.
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Her comfort level on the big stage is not soaring oratory.
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It also gave him an opportunity to showcase his oratory skills.
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What are the chances we would still cherish "whom"-using oratory?
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The oratory of the Muslim diaspora, meanwhile, quickly reached fever pitch.
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It's a little rushed, and not exactly exemplary oratory, but it works.
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That's hardly the kind of inspiring oratory that will motivate nervous legislators.
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Ms Rousseff inspired the coinage of the word dilmês, meaning garbled oratory.
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His youth, public manner and oratory have drawn comparisons to President Obama.
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Even diehard Republican pundits couldn't sugarcoat their appraisal of Trump's oratory skills.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s thundering oratory and Marian Anderson's unforgettable contralto.
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His strengths — charisma, youthful vigor, powerful oratory and demographic appeal — are obvious.
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It draws its power from its lack of proximity to soaring oratory.
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The School Weekly offered a front-page sampler of his soaring oratory.
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Ella Baker was not interested in elite strategy sessions or flowery oratory.
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He had a gift for the English language, from grammar to oratory.
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Oratory, to perform New Year's Day [2008] at 5 o'clock in the morning.
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The following day, Meryl Streep delivered a rousing, female-empowering piece of oratory.
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The two share a similar world outlook, celebrity appeal and even campaign oratory.
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And she does not deliver speeches with the sweeping oratory of President Obama.
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And he was moving right along with good oratory ... it was just unnecessary.
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They use soaring oratory delivered in an inspirational style that lifts us all up.
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In fifth grade, he won a local oratory contest, defeating kids several years older.
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Further back, some aspects of William Jennings Bryan's manner and oratory were very Trumpish.
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Trump views this tic as a shortcoming or as a strength of his oratory.
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Wills masterfully analyzes the Gettysburg Address in terms of its oratory and historical context.
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But what this week's episode lacks in adrenaline it makes up for in oratory.
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A great deal had changed since then, but Sanders's blunt-instrument oratory had not.
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It was in the details of Mr. Sessions's oratory that his game was exposed.
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The other lawyer was corporate slickness personified, with immaculate suits and full-paragraph oratory.
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In his oratory and proposals, he's the least divisive of the remaining Republican presidential aspirants.
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Yet race has been essential to his career, as well as to his finest oratory.
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In the kitchen table scene, the blazing public oratory of Malcolm X has turned inward.
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Her winning speeches about it in high-school oratory competitions helped her pay for college.
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It was an extraordinary speech, a rare example of transcendent statesmanship and progressive, inclusive oratory.
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Today the Senate was alive with oratory as people spoke for and against the proposal.
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"What a horrible attack at Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted.
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The preacher is the main actor in the great oratory tradition of Black Southern Baptist church.
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Democrat Cory Booker is a New Jersey senator known for his soaring oratory and optimistic views.
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His impassioned oratory can just as easily elicit laughter or tears from those among his supporters.
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Precisely where on that spectrum of oratory effectiveness Trump's speech falls is still to be determined.
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The language, too, can seem awfully rich, perhaps deliberately in a play about oratory and faith.
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The mighty oratory of the 1830s and '18503s was accompanied by an undercurrent of brute force.
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Two years ago her son Matthew, now 20, delivered a speech at a state oratory festival.
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But little in his Senate career suggests that he'd be able to turn that oratory into remedy.
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Obama capped eight years of exceptional public oratory with a typically powerful farewell speech in Chicago Tuesday.
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Not pleased with the critical coverage of his oratory skills, Trump decided to review his own speeches.
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As a politician, he honed his alluring oratory as a television show celebrity and as London mayor.
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President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address was a far cry from his predecessors' oratory.
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"What a horrible attack at Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal this morning," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted.
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St. Joseph's Oratory, the largest church in Canada, is in the culturally diverse Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood.
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The Sanders campaign gained enthusiastic support because the candidate's consistent record of progressive substance matched his oratory.
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"We have gone from an era of great oratory to an era of great tweets," she said.
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But his charismatic oratory and disarmingly self-deprecating confidence allowed him to survive both gaffes and scandal.
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Has credentials and oratory that Weber lacks but hampered by Socialists' poor showing in EU and national elections.
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A worrying political trend around the world But I worry about the redemptive optimism that drives Obama's oratory.
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He has all of Obama's self-assurance with none of his intellectual fortitude, inspirational biography, or oratory power.
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One gets the impression of a diminutive woman with shoulders squared, delivering an oratory from her woodwind pipe.
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In his debate preparations, Mr. Booker's advisers have been cautioning him from indulging his flair for dramatic oratory.
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Through the mist of ideology and the fog of oratory, the sharp outlines of modern politics become visible.
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Even less kempt, Walton Goggins gets to play an angry, avenging figure, given to oratory and mind games.
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It also has a dramatic range that Olbermann, known mostly for fiery to-camera oratory, tends not to.
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They also formed a working group of 25 representatives, while the others drilled them on their oratory skills.
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As the stages got bigger, Obama's oratory became more dominant and yet, at the same time, more intimate.
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It was fun to listen to, because Trump — and this is still perhaps the most incredible thing about his candidacy, in retrospect — was somehow the first politician in however many decades of modern American political oratory to capitalize on the fact that nobody likes listening to modern American political oratory.
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There may be no legal sanction to seek in this instance, since public oratory is rarely protected by copyright.
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THE thousands of Atlantans at Bernie Sanders's rally at Morehouse College on February 16th heard some top-notch oratory.
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I admit she's never going to stun the nation with her oratory, but I thought it was pretty good.
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We provide a complete lesson on writing a candidate speech, including ways to think about messaging, oratory and emotion.
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Although his soldiers and weapons vastly outnumbered Mr. Castro's, Mr. Batista grew fearful of the young guerrilla's mesmerizing oratory.
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That level of oratory coming from Vice President Pence for this occasion is something that we miss in Washington.
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It was not a fiery oratory, but a message that was conveyed in Beltran's familiar manner: calmly and directly.
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But it is the level of oratory that continues throughout the novel, not only from LaVerdere but from everyone.
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Perhaps prosperity theology, boisterous, formalistic and mechanical prayer rituals, and skillful oratory have hastened the need for a eulogy.
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Truong Dinh Dzu, an obscure lawyer with a shady past, emerged as a master of oratory on the airwaves.
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Instead, Harris would bring her advantages — debating skill, powerful oratory and charisma — to the ticket without any obvious downside.
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Hers was a purely positive speech, the kind of soaring, inspirational oratory that made her husband famous 12 years ago.
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He is offering progressive-minded pragmatism, not left-wing revolution; relentless positivity, not fighting; and soaring oratory, not wonky specifics.
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Oratory, a space within the depths of the building open every weekend for "gay fetish stuff," as Shamov describes it.
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On Friday, it was a fiery Mr. Biden, whose efforts at soaring oratory can sometimes veer closer to a shout.
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And yet, one last time, with soaring oratory, President Obama reminded me that when others go low, he goes high.
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Cather knew Bryan from her journalistic days; she was fascinated by his oratory but skeptical of his progressive economic agenda.
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He's just going to let Roosevelt do the talking, his majestic oratory distilled into a highly relevant social media soundbite.
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"I heard that Saint Mary's Hall freshman made it to oratory finals," one of them said, obviously speaking about me.
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And his message -- often delivered with soaring oratory -- failed to connect with voters who were angry at the direction of Washington.
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Aucoin's sexuality was tactile, oratory, and inescapable at a time in my life when I ran so hard from my own.
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Ten years younger than the president, Ince has lit up crowds with a booming oratory reminiscent of Erdogan at his best.
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Kendi bitterly recalls a speech he gave at an oratory contest in high school, decrying the bad habits of black youth.
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The losers were all the struggling candidates who nurture the belief that one burst of stirring oratory could transform their fortunes.
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Her oratory is always going to remind you a little of your least favorite history teacher's lecture about the cotton gin.
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This was due less to her oratory skills—though they are great—than the fact that she was simply doing it.
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As Congo's prime minister, Mr. Lumumba won a large following at home and elsewhere in Africa through charisma and skillful oratory.
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Mr. Ince, a former physics teacher and a lawmaker, has pleased the crowds with his oratory, sense of humor and charisma.
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Campaign oratory could give way to the realities of governing, especially when the oil industry offers financing for more social services.
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But there was one issue notably absent from his populist oratory: international relations, specifically those with the neighbor to the north.
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Johnson, known for his rumpled appearance and flamboyant oratory, was previously married to Marina Wheeler, and they had four children together.
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Lacking Obama's soulful oratory and her husband's Arkansas amiability, she was never fully able to make herself relatable on a personal level.
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The young John Quincy Adams declared that he "did not perceive any extraordinary powers of oratory" on the floor of the House.
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The team brought in Jon Favreau, well-known as the writer behind President Obama's oratory, to help give it some rhetorical heft.
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Still, by listening to the sermons of charismatic but extremist preachers based in India and Malaysia, Mr. Zaharan was honing his oratory.
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He referred both to the patriotic oratory of Shakespeare's "Henry V" and to the frenetic rhythms of battle in a Nintendo game.
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Trump can sometimes sway the general public with his aggressive oratory, but that strategy will fail in an actual court of law.
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Known for his booming oratory and poetic delivery, Cummings quickly emerged as one of Democrats' most effective critics of the Trump administration.
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Mr. Préval was never one to stir up the masses with oratory flair, or one to bother stumping on the campaign trail.
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His portrait of the president matches perfectly with everything we know about the man, from his oratory, his actions and his tweets.
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They were entranced, they said, by his charisma, his oratory, and his particular style of campaigning — down-to-earth, personal, and relentlessly positive.
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Polling in New Hampshire puts him in eighth place behind Carly Fiorina, a businesswoman with a patchy record and hypertense style of oratory.
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When it comes to celebrities and performers — people whose voices and oratory abilities you're already familiar with — an audiobook is worth the experience.
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Teen drama Ivanka similarly dominates her school's Model UN designation despite her lackluster oratory — but only because her father is the team coach.
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Armed with his usual arsenal of florid oratory, self-regard and blunt force, he came instead to rally them, someday, around Ted Cruz.
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Like Mr. Mandela, Mr. ya Toivo was skilled in the courtroom oratory that offered opponents of white minority rule a rare public platform.
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The suite is his response to eight famous passages of political oratory, like Ronald Reagan's "Tear down this wall" speech in West Berlin.
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Yet when the latter electronic blurts become normal and the former oratory is uncharacteristic, Trump descends into the unserious territory of Silvio Berlusconi.
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At first blush, the humdrum Hoosier appears to have been picked to act as counterweight to Mr. Trump's unpredictable, firebrand style of oratory.
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The quiet announcement came as an anti-climax to the rising oratory of summing up arguments that held jury and audience in rapt attention.
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Cicero, the Roman statesman whose talent for oratory was such that he remains to this day a byword for eloquence, has always divided opinion.
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Britain will be now led by a flamboyant figure known for his ambition, untidy blond hair, flowery oratory and fragile command of policy detail.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - A priest was stabbed at St. Joseph's Oratory, Canada's biggest church, in Montreal as he was celebrating Mass on Friday, police said.
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There was lots of memorable oratory at this week's convention in Philadelphia; intended to boost Hillary Clinton, these performances risked eclipsing her finale instead.
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It lost by one vote, undone by what Woodress calls a "barrage of pulpit oratory," and wouldn't be enacted for half a dozen years.
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Had he shown even the faintest aptitude for oratory or ministering to the poor, he might never have determined the basic laws of heredity.
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But this halcyon period, before the campaigns become reduced to sound bites, is a great moment for Democratic oratory in the twenty-first century.
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Andrew Cuomo even used a story about his father's oratory to distill his father's character in eulogizing him after his death in January 2015.
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And that volume, those who speak to him say, rarely decreases, as he approaches even the most routine chats as an exercise in oratory.
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Up to now, Mr. Booker's campaign has focused largely on sweeping upbeat oratory and calls for unity to salve the country's growing political divisions.
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Celebrate the fact that humor, scoops, political oratory and the Constitution are all enjoying a revival due to negative forces that will remain unnamed.
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The speech was long on oratory and vision, but it had less to offer in the way of details, new ideas or measurable goals.
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His power is nourished by his gift for extemporaneous, often humorous, oratory, not to mention his position as one of the county's largest employers.
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Some longtime supporters still hope to see Mr. Obama eventually return to the impassioned oratory they remember from the 2008 and 2012 campaign trail.
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Edward Van den Bergh, a Roman Catholic priest and a brother of the bride, performed the ceremony at the Oxford Oratory in Oxford, England.
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It's a process that's really bad at delivering memorable oratory, but actually makes a lot of sense as a model for running the executive branch.
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Winston Churchill collected it in 1953 "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".
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Combined with the wisdom hard-earned in his campaigns, this fertile combination shaped the oratory for which he is remembered 50 years after his death.
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"The noise and the blare, the bands and the screaming, the pageantry and oratory of the long fall campaign, fade on Election Day," White wrote.
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The party's surprise triumph in national elections in 2002 owed much to Mr Erdogan's formidable powers of oratory and organisation, but also something to luck.
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Barbara Jordan, who in 1976 became the first black woman to give a keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, was famous for her oratory.
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Then comes the choice of a captain, a role that has changed since amateur days, when a talent for after-dinner oratory was a factor.
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Kennedy was no dove, but he delivered a powerful piece of oratory that pointed to the need for nonmilitary solutions to the US-Soviet tension.
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President Donald Trump has never been known for his oratory skills, but his inability to process information and communicate clearly is now having dire consequences.
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The attack happened as the priest of St. Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal led Mass on Friday morning at the church in Montreal, police said.
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But just as Lenin and the equally talented Leon Trotsky mesmerized listeners with the intensity of their oratory, Zinoviev knew how to sway a crowd.
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In a theatrical oratory, Andrew Miltenberg, Mr. Thibodeau's lawyer, painted Mr. Sprecher and Ms. Forlenza as incompetent producers and Mr. Thibodeau as a whistle-blower.
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Clinton, who admits she does not have the natural oratory skills of her husband or President Obama, has been tailoring her voice and tone for years.
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She used her fiery brand of oratory to try to humiliate Yanukovich, but he proved her nemesis after beating her in a 2010 election for president.
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"Those of us watching have received an education in management, finance, politics, oratory and what's possible via sheer force of will," Bernstein analyst Max Warburton said.
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EVERYTHING ABOUT Alan García was big: his bulky frame, his oratory, his political talents, his ambition, his sense of self-importance, his mistakes and moral flaws.
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" is a classic of American oratory notwithstanding the fact that it was not, strictly speaking, accurate.
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He echoed King's letter so much that "in a powerful sense, King and the movement were the authors of the president's oratory," historian Jonathan Rieder wrote.
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In many ways, the #Oprah2020 dialogue fixated more on Winfrey's impressive oratory skills, potential qualifications, and political bona fides over her actual desire to be president.
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His oratory depends less on grand vision or populist rhetoric and more on statistics about road building or village financing down to the 10th decimal place.
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The book included a story about King, as a high school student, entering (and winning) a student oratory competition about 90 miles outside Atlanta in 1944.
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Much of his oratory has involved old-fashioned smokestack industries like steel — industries in which the jobs were already disappearing even before the rise of China.
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Palermo's archbishop, Corrado Lorefice, has granted the emerging community the use of an unused oratory, to be transformed into Palermo's first stable synagogue in five centuries.
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Johnson, a former newspaper columnist known for his bilbo-like wit, magniloquent oratory and looseness with facts, appealed to Miller's desire to improve his own craft.
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During his speech at the convention, Kennedy brought the crowd to its feet with soaring oratory while Carter could barely muster any applause with his lackluster performance.
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Other plots included spiking the dictator's cigars with a chemical that would disorientate him, hoping he would smoke one before delivering one of his marathon oratory performances.
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Moro deployed calm, persistent questioning to prevent the ex president from using his oratory skills to piece together a convincing, coherent explanation of the accusations against him.
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How could this Manhattan libertine outperform Ted Cruz, the preacher's son with a command of biblical verse and brimstone oratory — and in the South, of all places?
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Mr. Fairfax began with praise for Ms. Height's "oratory around the issue of anti-lynching," but it quickly became clear he was also talking about other matters.
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Sanders' transgressive oratory style combined with pie-in-the-sky policy promises and a "burn it all down" ethos are matched by only one other candidate: Trump.
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News Analysis MANCHESTER, N.H. — In the Republican race for president, Senator Marco Rubio's soaring oratory, firm command of policy and steely unflappability are his sword, helmet and shield.
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Admittedly, authorship is always a squirrelly proposition in the case of public oratory by political figures or their kin, which is usually written or co-written by others.
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"Neither leader has been able to galvanise voters with any sort of great oratory, [or] significant different policies that would easily gravitate voters their way", Rolfe told CNBC.
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As the leader of some very good Baltimore Ravens teams, Lewis became famous as an inspirational speaker, delivering loud and completely circular feats of ad-libbed berserker oratory.
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The painting, which portrays Mary admiring baby Jesus, hung in the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily until it was cut from its frame in October 1003.
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What "The Potter's Touch" lacks in production values, it makes up for in sheer energy and verve thanks to Jakes's rich, sonorous baritone and knack for persuasive oratory.
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Heisman, a part-time stage actor who had been trained as a lawyer, prized gifted oratory and preferred a dynamic sound that would spring his charges into action.
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Everyone from Ivanka Trump to Ron Howard praised her inspiring oratory, and celebrities like Lady Gaga said they'd vote for her if she were to run for president.
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Grou has "no resentment" toward the suspect and "hopes he gets all the support he needs and find peace," said Céline Barbeau, a spokeswoman for St Joseph's Oratory.
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Obama was celebrated for his oratory, and other historic leaders such as Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King Jr. could move audiences through the power of their words.
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Mr. Khalid and his fellow activists — graduate students with a gift for oratory — emerged as powerful critics of Mr. Modi's policies and positions upon their release from prison.
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Oratory has always held a special importance to Obama's story, since he first rose to national prominence because of a speech — his famous 2004 Democratic convention keynote address.
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Many admire the youthful new French president's energy and oratory after years in which Paris, long a driving force of the European Union, has appeared bereft of self-confidence.
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Like several other pastors he has endorsed Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a hardliner who has wooed Iowans with Bible-infused oratory and promises to fight for religious Americans.
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But one year, as a prize in an African-American history oratory competition, he was awarded a summer scholarship to Freedom Theater, which focused on the African-American tradition.
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Ms. Warren has made battling corporate greed and corruption a central theme of her fiercely populist campaign, mixing anti-elitist oratory with policy plans calling for sweeping new regulations.
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Before juries, and to the consternation of defense lawyers, he was prone to riffs of flamboyant oratory that he augmented with props like the bloodied clothing of a victim.
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"No one is supporting him because they think he has the best debate skills, because he has superior oratory skills," said Mitchell, who's now a director at Hamilton Strategies.
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And given the violence that often accompanies such oratory, the promise of new jobs from our bankrupter-in-chief for depressed areas is not enough to allay these concerns.
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Among presidential speeches, the State of the Union address comes closest to the long, disjointed, episodic form of the campaign rally — the form of oratory at which he excels.
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For the last 10 years, the Oratory where the theft took place has been managed by the Amici dei Musei Siciliani, a cultural association that promotes art in Palermo.
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But the series — at best, a thick slice of ham onto which Kevin Spacey ladles villainous oratory like red-eye gravy — has never really stood up to deep reading.
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Finally, a girl walked up to the oratory postings with a paper on her hand, and the entire cafeteria surrounded her, impatiently waiting to see who the finalists were.
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Some conservative critics of Mr. Trump's rhetoric about use of power, both in the United States and abroad, have suggested that his declarations fall along the lines of fascist oratory.
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Johnson, man known for his ambition, messy blond hair, flowery oratory and cursory command of detail - must solve a series of riddles if he is to succeed where May failed.
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He initially pitched himself as a moderniser, able to broaden his party's appeal through his endlessly repeated back-story, with its saccharine ode to America, his oratory and telegenic smile.
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"I think 'unity' is the wrong goal, and what we need can't be achieved by lofty oratory alone," said Wendy L. Wall, an associate professor of history at Binghamton University.
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In a section that might be some of Clinton's best oratory ever, she managed to summarize the core of the case for her over Trump in one compelling, short paragraph.
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The Palma branch of Berlin's Kewenig gallery showcases emerging artists inside a 213th-century oratory, while the Gerhardt Braun Gallery hosts exciting contemporary installations in a 221th-century Mannerist mansion.
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Only three credited actors are onstage for any given performance of "What the Constitution Means to Me," Heidi Schreck's searching oratory/memoir, now at the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway.
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Under the cover of some beautiful oratory, it was an open attempt to drift the United Nations from the broader avenues of global values to the dark alleys of nationalism.
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But new evidence presented at the Oratory this week has revived hopes that the painting might still be found — or, at the very least, that its fate might be discovered.
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For those who attend Victory Life Center, a contemporary Christian church complete with catchy music and bright lights, Ms. Court's oratory is strong, and the sincerity of her beliefs undeniable.
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Even before his stint on the school board, he helped torpedo the Elks' "Caucasians only" policy by delivering a jeremiad against it in an oratory contest sponsored by … the Elks.
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Through his soaring oratory, laced with inspirational quotes, Mr. Booker has projected a relentless optimism that provides perhaps the starkest contrast to the divisive politics ushered in by Mr. Trump.
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Were it not for Douglass's oratory, the historian Lisa Tetrault tells us in "The Myth of Seneca Falls," the "controversial" resolution demanding the vote for women might actually have failed.
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Although his oratory and diplomacy made him a welcome visitor throughout much of the world, his optimism often seemed out of place in the rough-and-tumble world of Israeli politics.
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One political cartoonist has managed to condense their lengthy oratory into one very simple poem and drawing that sums up their opposing views of the country and the world in general.
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Her passion for free markets and low taxes seems to have rubbed off on a relatively shy man who, in contrast to his new boss, is not known for his oratory.
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One is the country's most popular president ever and the front-runner in next year's election - a former union leader who still whips up crowds with his fiery and folksy oratory.
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Yet instead of accepting Winfrey's poignant speech for what it was, the oratory was spun as a beacon from a beloved, magic savior here to "save" the country from Donald Trump.
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Does California's former "top cop" have the oratory skills to lift people up, to draw big crowds and to make voters feel something about her and her vision for the country?
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This time, as I walked to the oratory final, I did so by myself, as I had finally acquired self-assurance needed to navigate the quiet hallways of the high school.
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Billy Long (R-Mo.), who made a living off his oratory skills as an auctioneer and talk-radio host, said no one would miss the response if congressional leaders nixed it.
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But it also carries substantial risks: A notoriously awkward format, State of the Union responses have been more memorable in recent years for the memes they have produced than persuasive oratory.
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Iowans said they were impressed by O'Rourke's charisma, oratory, and grasp of policy — and mostly unaware of media snark about his candidacy after months of hand-wringing following his losing Senate bid.
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Mr Fillon hit the most discordant note of all when he sought to mimic the grandiose oratory of Charles de Gaulle, whose photo he kept on his bedroom wall as a child.
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In a way, it did: there was passion and impressive oratory on both sides, as well as anger and what felt like an ambient quotient of fear in search of an outlet.
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In 1953, Winston Churchill received the prize, in part as recognition of the literary qualities of his soaring political speeches and "brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values," according to the academy.
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Najib's campaign tried to paint Mahathir as a traitor to the Malay cause, but the nonagenarian's charisma and engaging oratory drew crowds running to thousands at campaign stops ahead of the election.
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His stiff-necked sense of authenticity and his self-confidence in his salesman's ability to close the deal make his every burst of oratory a daunting challenge to those who diagram sentences.
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Among the possible events being discussed within his campaign is a round table with tech industry leaders, many of whom view Mr. Trump suspiciously after his more provoking oratory during the campaign.
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He may never win prizes for fiery oratory — Horford, 31, tends to be impassive with his postgame remarks — but his steady demeanor is part of what makes him invaluable to the Celtics.
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" ---- Learn Lincoln's words by heart By Ken Burns "As you read this timeless piece of oratory, engage in a discussion with those around you on what these words mean to us today.
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Mr. Soares was known for his quick-thinking debating skills and inspiring political oratory, though supporters, including former professors, and detractors alike said that dealing with practical details was not his strength.
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And starting so late in the race, he may have to buy the kind of stature that others — like Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Warren — have built chiefly with their oratory and ideas.
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And starting so late in the race, he may have to buy the kind of stature that others — like Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Warren — have built chiefly with their oratory and ideas.
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That may sound obvious, but it's actually a sharp change from recent presidents and current candidates whose theory of change relied on the power of oratory to mobilize citizens to demand new policies.
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Behind the soaring oratory was a plea to Obama's core supporters -- the black, Latino, college-educated, women and independent voters that put him in the White House -- to transfer their loyalty to Clinton.
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It is a future in which presidential oratory will rise beyond paratactic strings of superlatives or fulminations of invective to acknowledge through its complexity and subtlety of expression the nuances of our world.
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His sweeping, apocalyptic oratory, down to the hand motions he seems to have committed to muscle memory, leave little doubt in the minds of evangelical voters that Cruz is one of their own.
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Directed by Jesse Rasmussen and Ms. Sampson herself, both recent graduates of the Yale School of Drama, it often seems too eager to escape the gravity of drama, heading toward oratory or agitprop.
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Four years later, inspired by a phone call with his friend, the writer William S. Burroughs, he started Dial-A-Poem, a rudimentary mass-communication system for cutting-edge poets and political oratory.
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The pressure on Taiwan might not be a single, coordinated campaign, but rather the result of different branches of the Chinese government scrambling to appear supportive of President Xi Jinping's increasingly nationalistic oratory.
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One of Caravaggio's most celebrated works, the "Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence," was, in fact, stolen by the Mob from a chapel in Palermo, the Oratory of San Lorenzo, in 1969.
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Drunk though he may once have been on egalitarian oratory, Hollande is as dependent on the mandarins of the École Nationale d'Administration as the Bourbons were on their Scottish and Swiss economic advisers.
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He won with the tools that have cast spells on Alabama voters for two centuries: race, religion, hysterical oratory, intimidation of critics and economic three-card monte dealt by big-business hand jivers.
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Before becoming a Republican senator, he became an African Methodist Episcopal preacher renowned for his oratory throughout the Midwest -- sounds like another African-American from the Midwest who made some history of his own.
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But 'Prime Minister Johnson' - known for his ambition, mop of blonde hair, flowery oratory and a cursory command of detail - must solve a series of riddles if he is to succeed where May failed.
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But Johnson - known for his ambition, mop of blonde hair, flowery oratory and cursory command of policy detail - takes office at one of the most tumultuous junctures in post-World War Two British history.
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His promise seems to lie instead in his biography as the son of hard-working Cuban immigrants, in his good looks, in the polish of his oratory, in the nimbleness with which he debates.
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Self-aggrandizing oratory, the mercurial backstabbing of loyalists, callous disregard for anyone else's well-being: The party's bedrock principles would bring a tear to my eye if I had the capacity to feel tenderness.
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In 2012, Mitt Romney defied his reputation for stultifying oratory by extolling the romantic bond between his parents, recalling the rose his father, George, left on the pillow every morning for his wife, Lenore.
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The candidate herself takes a workhorse approach to oratory, driving in her talking points like she's hammering nails through drywall, and on Thursday, she hit her marks again, helped along by the enthusiastic crowd.
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The words fell into a passage of the speech that, in relation to the "American carnage" of the current president's oratory, seems both quaint and exotic — and makes you yearn for an earlier time.
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May, Mr. Johnson's overblown oratory cheered his supporters, including his grandiose promises to usher in a "new golden age," and to make the country the "greatest and most prosperous economy in Europe" by 2050.
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When the procession arrived at the capitol on Monday, a handful of speakers were blaring Dr. King's oratory from the foot of a monument to Confederate soldiers, the last site of the Confederate banner.
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In 2014, they unveiled a replica of Caravaggio's Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence where the original painting once stood, before it was stolen in 1969 from the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo.
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A four-term governor of Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest state, Alckmin's cautious oratory and establishment credentials have inspired little enthusiasm so far from an electorate still stewing over a deep recession and huge corruption scandals.
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The frontrunner is Nahles, a plain-speaking 47-year-old former labour minister with a left-wing slant and strong oratory skills, but the manner in which Schulz appeared to anoint her angered many members.
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Climb to the town's apex to find Auditorium Horszowski, an open-air theater whose grass-covered steps are flanked by a faded-pink oratory and a soaring brick bell tower dating to the 1333th century.
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Regardless of the risk, it was clear on both sides of the aisle — and to experienced prosecutors who watched — that after a long day of complicated and sometimes monotonous testimony, Mr. Schiff's oratory broke through.
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Conversing, teaching, even reading out loud were all part of everyday discourse, but recording an audiobook would take me into the world of professional oratory — a world, I assumed, from which I'd always be excluded.
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Modi is now known around the world mostly for his electrifying oratory, for being decisive on foreign policy, and for talking up domestic successes - even while some of his main projects are stymied by political gridlock.
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But 'Prime Minister Johnson' - a man known for his ambition, mop of blonde hair, flowery oratory and a cursory command of detail - must solve a series of riddles if he is to succeed where May failed.
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And this goes to the core of who Comey is — a nice guy, wonderful family man, eloquent speaker of soaring oratory and rhetorical flourishes, but who was ill-suited and woefully underprepared for the big stage.
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But the Academy has a tradition of stepping outside the traditional boundaries of literary form, awarding the 1953 prize to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in part for his "brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".
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Oratory, a sex club in the basement of Berlin's internationally renowned Berghain nightclub, we knew we had to go—that taking part in a bacchanal 300-man orgy was the perfect way to celebrate our bond.
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The opera was inspired by Thomson and Stein's love for the oratory of the United States in the 19th-century, when politicians made grandiloquent, soaring speeches and public debates went on for hours before rapt crowds.
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He would not have to speak all that long, notwithstanding how far his oratory skills have come since the days when he mostly spoke a sign language of his own, with a ball or a beer.
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The new synagogue — on the Vicolo Meschita, part of an area once occupied by Palermo's Great Synagogue — will be housed in a former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday.
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On a recent spring morning, Ms. Pepi, Ms. Ancona and Ms. Aouate — who spearheaded the efforts to open a synagogue — fussed at the entrance to the oratory, fumbling with a padlock on a cast-iron gate.
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And they might have been forgotten to history entirely if Lincoln hadn't then collected the texts into a book, bringing national attention to his oratory and helping him win the Republican nomination for president in 1860.
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DIVIDED KINGDOM At one of the most tumultuous moments in Britain's modern history, it will be now led by a flamboyant figure known for his ambition, untidy blond hair, flowery oratory and cursory command of policy detail.
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The only way to rise above the 1-percenters (the trailing candidates in the polls, not the wealthy targets of Warren's oratory) is to climb out of the crowded base camp one agonizing step at a time.
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This insatiable need for oratory and stagecraft was on full display in May of 220006 when Cuomo launched his bid for governor on the steps of the courthouse named for the corrupt Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall.
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Charles M. Blow It is a commonly accepted rule among those who are in the business of argument, especially online, that he or she who invokes Adolf Hitler, either in oratory or essays, automatically forfeits the argument.
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"That torch is now in our hands," Mr. Trump said within the first few minutes of his speech, echoing, if not entirely approaching, the wispy mountaintop oratory of more polished predecessors like Mr. Obama and Mr. Reagan.
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Offering filmmaking teams seven precious minutes of uninterrupted pitching time and around double that time for feedback from a panel of industry executives, it's an idiosyncratic public venue for burgeoning directors to refine their projects and oratory skills.
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Britain, in the middle of one of the most tumultuous moments in its modern history, will be now led by a flamboyant figure known for his ambition, untidy blond hair, flowery oratory and cursory command of policy detail.
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And it's an image that some Cubans -- those who succumbed to his charisma and passionate oratory which painted the suffering of the present as necessary stepping stones for a better future -- bought into, at least for a time.
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As Barack Obama's chief speechwriter for eight years, Favreau had a hand in some of his most memorable oratory — none more so than the 2008 campaign speech about race that followed questions about Obama's relationship with the Rev.
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First, there was the question of whom they were actually winning over with political oratory delivered amid a bacchanalia of self-celebration and haute couture, some of it costing as much as the average American's home down payment.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Lawyer and pastor Nelson Chamisa is using oratory skills honed in the courtroom and pulpit to plot an election victory in Zimbabwe, where he has galvanized his opposition party with folksy speeches and promises of economic revival.
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Often, what a grieving nation needs is soaring oratory to heal wounds, like Ronald Reagan's "touched the face of God" speech after the deathly space shuttle Challenger accident or Obama's rendition of "Amazing Grace" following the Charleston church shooting.
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Having such moguls on the team not only expands Mr. Trump's network of Wall Street donors and contacts, but may also reassure the financial community that it need not be too alarmed by some of the candidate's populist oratory.
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Tchanori Kone, an elementary school student from Houston, took home first place this weekend at the 22nd Annual Gardere MLK Jr. Oratory Competition after she wrote and delivered a powerful speech about the change she wants to see in this world.
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Double Feature: "Young Mister Lincoln" (1939) Director John Ford and star Henry Fonda's portrait of the president's early days as an attorney with a gift for oratory (Available to stream via rent or purchase on Amazon Prime, Fandango Now and Vudu).
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Maybe it's her perfectly straight hair like spun gold, her articulate oratory skills or her effortlessly coordinated ensembles, but Ivanka Trump appears to possess a certain level of perfection that somehow suggests she's just a little bit more than human.
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Hamilton's central conceit is "what if the Founding Fathers were people of color, and hip-hop were the language of their oratory"; the show, and its creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, were closely associated with Barack Obama and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
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So unlike Obama's 20 minute oratory — which balanced personal narrative with attacks on his opposition, optimism for the future with gloom over the past — each candidate on Friday had about half that time to fire up twice as many people.
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In old school philosophy-speak, commencement addresses fall into a category Aristotle defined as epideictic oratory: the rhetoric of ceremony in which praise or even blame is laid at our feet and guidance is given on how to move forward.
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The healthcare industry is in a world of cybersecurity hurt The Trump administration is already developing a pattern of being long on oratory but short on tangible action, and, sad to say, the President's cybersecurity Executive Order is following the script.
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One can appreciate that the candidates would prefer to speak in partisan rhetoric and ringing oratory but that "Fourth Revolution" of which Piereson speaks is knocking on our nation's door and we better have an answer when we open it.
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The entire tapestry of the oratory was laced with nautical references, definition of the quest as exploring a new ocean and discovering lands far beyond our own conjuring allusions of every notable exploration quest pursued over the course of human history.
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Clinton leveled an attack that might have shocked the political world in any other campaign: In addition to calling him a "recruiting sergeant" for terrorists, she accused him of giving "aid and comfort" to the Islamic State with his campaign oratory.
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Up the hill is the walled-in motherhouse of the Sisters of Mercy; down the hill is the old church of St. Boniface, now the home of a community called the Brooklyn Oratory, where I go to Mass on Sundays.
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As his wife fretted audibly about the dwindling size of his crowds, Mr. Rubio — who had tried to combine John F. Kennedy's oratory, Ronald Reagan's inspirational conservatism and Barack Obama's message discipline — instead wound up apologizing for crude bathroom jokes.
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But in fact, a lot of the labor organizers were young working women in the factories and mills, like Clara Lemlick and Rose Schneiderman, who gave some of the most furious oratory calls for the New York Shirtwaist strike in 1909.
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In his memoirs, Grant expresses his "rigorous distaste" for "ceremony, theater and oratory" (in the words of the historian John Keegan) by describing two generals of the war with Mexico, in which he fought bravely as a young West Point graduate.
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PALERMO, Sicily — On a stormy night in October 1969, thieves broke into the Oratory of San Lorenzo, a small chapel in what was then Palermo's dilapidated Kalsa quarter, and made off with one of the city's artistic masterpieces: Caravaggio's "Nativity" altarpiece.
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"He wrote about heroic black women, slave rebellions and antislavery movements when discussing such matters was dangerous and seen as unpatriotic," Jesse Weaver Shipley, a professor of African and African-American studies and oratory at Dartmouth College, said in an email.
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But in describing a trade deal during the same visit as a "rape of our country," his oratory and protectionist policies are turning off other Republican-leaning voters, including suburban women and business interests, in a state whose economy depends on global exports.
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Yet in his own Gettysburg address, Mr. Trump, who has been sliding in the polls less than three weeks before Election Day, did not offer much in the way of race-changing oratory and did not seem to embrace Lincoln's unifying ambition.
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The GOP would have a menu of options to take on Hillary Clinton in 2020: the hard-edged conservatism of Ted Cruz, the lofty oratory of Marco Rubio, the earnest wonkery of Paul Ryan or the brawny national security vision of Tom Cotton.
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Hired by chance after the Trump campaign Googled 'teleprompters' and the company he worked for in New York came up, Perez has become the one person Trump trusts to manage his oratory acrobatics, embellishments and ad-libs during even the most scripted appearances.
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"I dropped my bag and we started running," Alex, who attends the London Oratory School, said from a wheelchair at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where he was treated for facial bruises and sprains when he tripped in the panicky crush of fleeing commuters.
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President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's inaugural address wasn't great oratory.
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But Hounsou is magnificent, his stirring speech to Adams ("I will call to my ancestors… for at this moment I am the whole reason they have existed at all") inspiring the ex-President to deliver a soaring bit of oratory in the closing passages.
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Mr. Awlaki had long been known for public oratory on behalf of Al Qaeda before he was killed in a drone strike in 2011 on President Obama's orders, making him the first American citizen killed without criminal charges or trial in the campaign against terrorism.
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They're strangely similar: the black man discovers a gift for oratory, is instantly pressed into propaganda service by a white radical organization, and has a deeply ambivalent relation with his new white friends, who are just a little too much like his old white masters.
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It wasn't just Patrick's and Obama's high-flown oratory, or their ties to Chicago (not much of a connection, anyway: Patrick left the South Side at age 14 on a boarding school scholarship, while Obama moved there as an adult) that suggested a symmetry.
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Now, in what is almost certainly the last presidential race of his life (he has already reportedly signaled to campaign aides that, if elected, he would only serve out one term in office), Biden is no longer reaching for oratory that is not his own.
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