No speechifying — just a light "Ouch" or raised eyebrow.
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This is their soapbox, and they're speechifying with their seams.
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I don't care that her speechifying has reignited her marriage.
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There is no small measure of pontifical speechifying about interfaith conflict.
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Chuck D's speechifying is pugnacious and mesmerizing, accented by Flavor Flav's urgent exhortations.
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Strig's boss, the wicked, rat-affiliated Professor Muroid, is given to villainous speechifying.
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It can devolve into introspective noise or transform into speechifying like the Gettysburg Address.
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If their jargony speechifying didn't work for me, the powerful contrast with 1963 did.
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Their speechifying takes some skill because that trade is lopsided in favor of Europe.
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Though a few conversations mark her mind-set, there is no speechifying or grandstanding.
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His rallies began in enthusiasm but soon sagged under the weight of his speechifying.
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His genius is a nearly unique ability to make that lack of conventional speechifying work.
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She understands that there's a lot of speechifying already and it takes us only so far.
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Rival campaigns seem to doubt it — at least for superficial offenses like vulgarity or awkward speechifying.
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Even at that, it could be as much as two and a half hours of speechifying.
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No one wheeled in cots so that elderly lawmakers could nap during long hours of speechifying.
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That such speechifying can be forgiven says something about Kalfar's wild imagination, his ingenuity, his heart.
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With all the speechifying in this episode, nothing was so purely evocative as that one nonverbal moment.
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Directed with elegant understatement by Oliver Butler, the show begins with Ms Schreck reliving her precocious speechifying.
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She is anonymous and, to those around her, generic—a passive audience for male speechifying and dissimulation.
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And David thinks Booker is best when he talks the substance of his policies rather than speechifying.
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Typically, when West is onstage, he is given to speechifying, but here, he hardly spoke at all.
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Regardless of his speechifying about equality for all, he refuses to invest in his adopted daughter's education.
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For all the speechifying, though, the loudest message the Academy can send is its choice of Best Picture.
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Yet I can't help but fear we're in for more speechifying and half-measures masquerading as significant events.
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We got so used to elegant, sometimes masterly speechifying, that I will admit I sometimes tuned it out.
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At times Mr Coe delivers hammer-blows instead of his trademark satirical swipes, and soapbox speechifying instead of dialogue.
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Then, with the speechifying out of the way, everyone slaps beef on the barbecues and gets down to gorging.
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Panetta did the kind of bland speechifying you'd expect from a former secretary of defense at a political convention.
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So far, there has been little of the rancor and political speechifying that takes over high-profile American hearings.
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Television relies more on dialogue and conversation, and there, "Devs" is shakier, given to unnatural expository downloads and speechifying.
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And then the speechifying began, often about the horror of politics, of all things, ruining any chance of lawmaking.
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Talking: Even while speechifying nonstop on the campaign trail, Mr. Paul had more to say while on the Senate floor.
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When it comes to modern Oscar speechifying, the winner is usually giving a shout-out to a well-celebrated cause.
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We don't get anything in the way of an origin or "With great power…" speechifying, because we don't need it.
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In contrast to Streep's trustworthy, '90s-style speechifying, Trump speaks the language of the time in which we actually live.
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Some take the speechifying route, using a few minutes in the spotlight to display their concerns for a particular cause.
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The series is quieter in general, and so far has none of the inspirational speechifying that can deaden the films.
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But now the endless speechifying has spread beyond the celebrity circuit to infect comedy shows and sports commentary as well.
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But, Annalise literally holds on too tight to Carr during dinner, practically squeezing her hand off while speechifying about performative lives.
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A half-joke from a small-town mayor about breaking Fidel Castro's record for marathon speechifying had long since been forgotten.
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"As he's been speechifying all over the universe, I noticed he's gotten more practiced," said Mr. Pepin, a recent college graduate.
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You can't simply throw around hulking abstractions like "lies" and "fear" and "terror," expecting the reader to mistake speechifying for wisdom.
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On March 21st, however, the Republican front-runner visited Washington, DC for a day of traditional foreign-policy chin-stroking and speechifying.
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Democrats wanted to get the speechifying over with Wednesday, then resume in the morning with the actual work of modifying the articles.
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Normally a story like this would be filled with scenes where the actors assure us that everything is awful through lots of speechifying.
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Speechifying was at its height, with some legislators barely offering a question in favor of an extended "comment" that could veer into yelling.
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It is assumed of esteemed white male actors that they will age gracefully into such roles, roaring and speechifying and showing their gravity.
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Both cases were classic Hollywood political speechifying: an acclaimed artist expressing their own deeply held personal views to a largely like-minded, receptive audience.
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In the first act, before the confessional speechifying gets properly underway, each scene moves energetically into the next, with most of the cast onstage.
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What should be celebrated this week — in verse, song, speechifying and toasting — is the triumph of the Irish spirit, a lesson about humanity's resilience.
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"Every president since I've been active in politics immediately got whacked for big speechifying" after leaving office, said Joe Trippi, a veteran Democratic strategist.
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As Belize, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett offers the perfect counterpoint to Louis's endless speechifying: He's the only one who can really call him on his bullshit.
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But it's easy to imagine how the combination of irresponsible speechifying by an elected official, combined with platform-related mishaps, will empower cathedral fire truthers.
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OSCARS night—with its posing, its speechifying and, when all goes awry, its announcing of a wrong winner—is the world's most recognisable awards ceremony.
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On screen, in the forum, on the soapbox: Meryl Streep's speech simply shone light on a small, recent mutation in the ancient genome of speechifying.
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Mr. Winthrop had been speechifying on the morning he pulled up to the Pioneer Plant in Burlington, N.C., where BMS, the yarn dyer, was headquartered.
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"I watched the first season or so, but I found the speechifying, the high-minded earnestness — it was like fingernails on a blackboard," she said.
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The software had a harder time dealing with digressions on sensitive topics like immigration or racism, because the data couldn't mimic effectively that kind of speechifying.
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Speeches are made, but then the supporters of each candidate, as well as those who remain "uncommitted" after the speechifying, huddle in groups indicating their preference.
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"Carlyle," directed at a brisk clip by Benjamin Kamine and powered by the dynamic Mr. Jones, is loosely put together and sometimes devolves into random speechifying.
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What with the awkward time leaps, the narrative gaps, the tiresome speechifying and a highly predictable love story, I wished I could have left at intermission.
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He listens intently during warm nights spent on the porch with Aunt Hager, with an occasional visit from Sister Johnson or the speechifying Madam de Carter.
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Mr. McConnell's television commercials mocked Mr. Huddleston's paid speechifying and his voting and attendance records by depicting baying bloodhounds on the hunt for an absentee senator.
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Long stretches of last week's hearing with Ford and Kavanaugh were gobbled up by speechifying senators agonizing over the means by which Ford's claims went public.
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As numerous as the singing Jacksons of Gary, Indiana, the speechifying Trumps will set a modern record for family-member endorsements at a major party's nominating convention.
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Think Robert De Niro in "The Untouchables," baseball bat in hand, speechifying about teamwork, before brutally executing an "unloyal" deputy with a heavy blow to the head.
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This time there was less lofty speechifying about the future of racial justice in America and a lot more talking about Donald Trump's experience with venereal disease.
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Ordinary people say the president's speechifying about the fate of the planet overlooks the month-to-month struggle of their lives, and they are demanding he listen.
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With the No-Thanks Amendment freeing up much of the 45 seconds allotted for acceptance speeches, political speechifying could become highly oppressive, possibly polarizing and certainly incoherent.
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He exudes charisma as always, but his character is written as such an overly verbose would-be Southern gentlemen that Ezra's constant speechifying starts to become a distraction.
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Trump has been first lady for nine months without having actually done anything on bullying beyond speechifying and photo ops is a disappointment, but it's not too late.
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LL's yearly presence has proved somewhat soothing amidst the Grammys' yearly strum und drang (occasional stage-crashing and sneak-diss-speechifying aside), but I don't quite know why.
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Slim. Republicans fall into line During the speechifying that precedes tomorrow's vote to acquit Trump in the Senate, we've seen nearly every Republican announce they'll acquit the President.
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The politician, aged 47 at the time, was an accomplished orator, whose speechifying on religion and morality never disturbed his habit of preying on women travelling alone on trains.
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As a result, Democrats who run the committee decided to begin their work on Wednesday night, relegating the speechifying and some of the procedural wrangling to the evening hours.
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He dislikes speechifying, but says that, as he writes, he constantly questions "what right we have to try and change the world and how we can, if indeed we can".
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Catalina Aguilar Mastretta's script is free of speechifying and delivers just enough story line to keep a plot in motion; words are rarely used when expressions can better convey feelings.
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And not only had the EOC unfolded more or less on time, but it had been slashed to one day instead of the expensive week of speechifying, dancing, and revelry.
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"Crime+Punishment" advances a thorough critique of American law enforcement not by generalizing or speechifying, but by digging into particular lives and circumstances, allowing affected individuals to speak for themselves.
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At the end of a long day on the trail, in whatever small place he found himself after another day of "future versus past" speechifying, he was ready to party.
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It's only a few seconds long — Trump turning to absorb Pelosi's smirking spin on a routine stand-and-clap — but it proved more noteworthy than the hour-plus of speechifying.
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As the ranking committee member, Schiff was usually allotted unlimited time for an opening statement at the committee's public hearings — an opportunity members of Congress typically use for grandstanding and speechifying.
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"Crown Vic" sidesteps any genuine ethical consideration of his choices, deploying a melodramatic twist and some grandiose speechifying that seems to respond defensively — and simplistically — to current debates about police brutality.
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He does so without undue speechifying or instructional exposition, as he chronicles Merkin's takeover by proxy of a third-generation Pennsylvania steel company, led by a clueless family scion (Rick Holmes).
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Aja: So, a thought I've been musing over, as I slog through all Dolores's monologues, is that all the speechifying is actually her computer's way of doing some heavy-duty background processing.
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So "Civil War" pauses for a few moments of chin-scratching and speechifying about whether a group of genetically advantaged, highly weaponized individuals should be brought under the supervision of the United Nations.
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But these plays allow us to look beyond the posturing, punditry and angry speechifying, to really feel the painful, inescapable hardships of daily life as it is lived by increasing numbers of Americans.
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Overacting, or at least speechifying, is another matter, and both Ali and Pizzolatto (who writes the first five episodes, with an assist from David Milch of "Deadwood" in Episode 4) rein it in.
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" We also see our villain, The Vulture (Michael Keaton) speechifying for the first time, and it seems he's starting out by trying to recruit Parker to his side — the side of the "little guy.
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There's an unfortunate tendency towards speechifying about big themes like The Role of Journalism in America — at times, it feels almost Sorkin-esque, but without the eloquence or snappiness of Aaron Sorkin's best dialogue.
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Trump's own "law and order" speechifying often seems to have been ripped directly out of these earlier eras, summoning timeworn racial stereotypes and specters of an acute urban crisis that no longer quite exists.
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This political back-and-forth is, however, cheapened by the broad, near-hagiographic strokes with which Rosen paints his leading characters, who spend most of the run-time speechifying between stagy puffs of cigars.
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Experience tells us that the Democrats' opposition will likely amount to a lot of speechifying and fundraising – especially by the considerable numbers of senators now positioning themselves for 2020 runs – and probably not much more.
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As anyone who has been to a town-hall meeting, or just watched one on "Parks and Recreation," knows, it can also be an invitation for obscure speechifying, quixotic schemes, and ad-hominem sabre rattling.
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What puts Trump over is his colloquial style: rather than speechifying he just talks, which strokes exactly the sensibility that makes slogans like "It's the Economy, Stupid" and "Yes We Can" so effective in our times.
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Alternatively, that leadership preparedness (a stronger condition than simple "qualification") consists mainly in adopting and speechifying about the latest conceptions on policy and not on building, painstakingly real and deep working relationships through actually doing something.
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In fact, across The Rub of Time he evaluates seemingly everything on the basis of whether it strikes his eyes and ears as fresh or dull—political speechifying, movie stars, hypermasculinity, Champions League football, even hardcore porn.
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Governors get to brag about what they've actually done, they get to criticize the toxicity of Washington from the outside, and they get to project an aura of executive competence that speechifying senators can only marvel at.
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Thanks to his impressive and unlikely victory over Ramsey Bolton, and some terrific speechifying from Lyanna Mormont (serves the lords of the North right for refusing the call), Jon Snow has been named King in the North.
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Even more unfortunate is the cast's collective failure to find a rhythm that would accommodate the play's willful combination of joltingly different tones and styles, ranging from vaudeville sketch material to baroquely ornate speechifying à la Kushner.
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He has spent only a decade as an MP, and when in Parliament was so busy making money by writing or speechifying elsewhere that he never had much time for dull Westminster work, such as sitting on committees.
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And while it's common to cite animosity toward speechifying by celebrities for the decline in award-show ratings, by now, those prone to tuning out based on ideological grounds are almost surely pretty well baked into the numbers.
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And though there's not a white person in the show — and very little polemical speechifying — you come to see this emotional complexity as a specific response to a white man's world that thwarts these men at every turn.
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Things improve slightly in Find Me's second act, when Elio takes center stage as the point-of-view character, bringing with him an air of self-deprecation that goes a long way toward making all of his speechifying palatable.
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From its contrived structure to its forced speechifying, this story about a yearslong correspondence between Donovan (Kit Harington), a closeted actor, and Rupert (Jacob Tremblay), a troubled prepubescent boy, never acquires the emotional potency or coherence its themes demand.
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While all of Hiram's speechifying is fairly obscure, Penelope doesn't have the luxury, because V&C tie her to a chair and and douse her in sugary maple syrup with an ultimatum: explain Hiram's plan or become an ant farm's dinner.
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Renato, however, finds the characters grotesque; and as he works to overcome his prejudices — mainly through speechifying and pensive stares — Mr. Letelier (who wrote the story with Victoria Wharfe McIntyre) takes direct aim at his country's repressive and homophobic history.
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Otherwise, the former president appears to have provided inside information about how the job works when a president is paying attention (this novel's POTUS reads his presidential daily briefing), done some speechifying and drawn upon his great love of thrillers.
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This isn't an especially good movie — it's too long, too drenched in Thomas Newman's cloyingly eclectic score, too full of speechifying and self-regard — but it is a coherent one, with the courage of its vengeful, murderous, politically terrifying convictions.
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But in his first race, his candidacy could feel like an exercise in performative stamina — sustained by an uncommon talent for talk-until-they-leave speechifying and an oversize bottle of Tylenol that helped ease foreboding headaches on the road.
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Like much of his speechifying, Mr. Trump's economic and business agenda is a mixture of opening bids and dog-whistle messages as well as some nuts-and-bolts proposals he might be able to put in effect as president, even without congressional approval.
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Our beloved Leftovers almost always found a way to weave its speechifying into the dialogue in a way that made sense; it surprised the hell out of me, for instance, when I realized that Nora's series finale speech ran a stunning eight minutes.
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The three-day Judiciary Committee proceedings were largely an exercise in grandstanding, speechifying and at times monotonous repetition — an endurance exercise in which each side appeared to be baiting the other to trip over their arguments or commit procedural offenses that could resonate outside Washington.
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In spite of his confused account of U.S. history, his partisan snipes, and his dictatorial posturing, Donald Trump's parading and speechifying in Washington on July 4 attempted to glom onto one of the last consensus issues in a broken American culture: We love to support our troops.
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Yet at the same time, The West Wing has come under fire from one-time or would-be fans, who see in its vision of politics something that has come to hamstring the Democratic Party by forever tying it to stentorian speechifying and Clintonian third-way politics.
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That's so much of whatever the show is trying to do with Dolores this season — she's clearly marking time until the show can advance some of its big mysteries, and that's led to the sort of speechifying that Caroline complained about a couple of weeks ago.
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They want to make the most that time, and lawmakers say that will require all of them to stay on script and on message, asking Mueller questions and not delivering long, wind-up speeches -- a task that's not an easy one for a Congress that's used to speechifying.
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For a while there, it almost seemed as if this entire season in the North was going to be spent on Jon saying stuff to his gathered bannermen in the same damn room, while they initially grumbled at his decisions, then were won around via his beautiful speechifying.
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But he did have an aversion to plays about disaster and disease (he turned down "The Elephant Man," for example, and disapproved when his niece Amy Nederlander helped produce a 1997 revival of "The Diary of Anne Frank"), and it's fair to say that too much speechifying onstage made him impatient.
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A speechifying anti-Trumpism, distant from the fray, will always be self-regarding and self-deceiving — unwilling to see how the Iraq War discredited both the Bushist and McCainian styles of right-wing internationalism, incapable of addressing the economic disappointments that turned voters against Flake's Goldwaterite libertarianism and Romney's "trust me, I'm a businessman" promises.
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The images of May '68, which changed my life when I was a teenager watching them on TV, are still burned in my memory: the enormous marches through the streets of France's major cities; the overflowing crowds of people speechifying and debating in the amphitheater of the Sorbonne; workers occupying factories and flying red flags over the gates; students occupying universities and being beaten by the police.
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