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Meanings of orator in English
Public speaker.
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Examples for "rhetorician"
Examples for "rhetorician"
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As in Athens of old, the rhetorician is master of the field.
2
His tutor was the celebrated Libanius, the greatest rhetorician of the day.
3
After the song was done, Herod the rhetorician said: Pray, sirs, hearken.
4
Favorinus, a rhetorician and sophist, who flourished in Gaul, c. 125 A.D.
5
A professed rhetorician could not have answered more elegantly or more flatteringly.
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But as he proceeded in his researches he sensibly felt that the business was one above even an oratorian or a monsignore.
2
Such people would have despised a Demosthenes, or a Cicero, with all their rhetorical flourishes, if their oratorian gowns had been in pledge.
3
I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.
4
A fellow-countryman of yours, Father F-- ,anOratorian priest from Norwood, England, will preach.
5
The work of this Oratorian was at least strange.
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And as she proved at the Golden Globes, she's quite the speechmaker.
2
Unlike Mr Obama, Mr Biden is not a great speechmaker, and never has been.
3
Through all his life Washington was no speechmaker.
4
Mr. Clarence was no speechmaker.
5
He himself was not a great speechmaker but he had served his time as a barrister before he came into higher things.
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But Wilson was no arguer; no speechifier as he would have called it.
2
The Chamber-thejournals-allthe scribblers and speechifiers.
3
Chopin, who was not very intellectual, felt ill at ease amongst all these literary men, these reformers, arguers and speechifiers.
4
But in addition, two of the evening's speechifiers turned out to share not just the same name but a common past.
5
"The speechifier loves you," he said.
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In his day, Andrew was much in demand as a public speaker.
2
He looked more like an elegant scholar than a popular public speaker.
3
As a public speaker he had said nothing that anybody could remember.
4
The strong-minded Obama exudes confidence and is an accomplished public speaker.
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Being rich, famous and an enthralling public speaker is not enough.
1
Strauss-Kahn is trying to make a comeback as an economic adviser and conference speaker.
2
A pastor for fourteen years before founding EPM in 1990, Randy is a popular teacher and conference speaker.
3
Davidson and another conference speaker, Jon Kabat-Zinn, taught employees at a biotech firm a form of meditation called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
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This book by business coach and experienced conference speaker Sarah Lloyd Hughes aims to quell fears for those who feel them.
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And, by way of demonstration, she and fellow conference speaker, Lisa Tui Jonathon, take me on a tour of the inner city.
Usage of orator in English
1
For once in his life words failed him; the orator was speechless.
2
Her words may have had impact, but Diana was no great orator.
3
The nation's greatest orator read the daily newspaper reports of Lincoln's speeches.
4
The illustration has no unimportant place in the equipment of the orator.
5
Valienté was no orator, evidently, Jackson saw, despite his own political experience.
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The great leader and the great orator have it in unusual measure.
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Thus you will acquire the skills to become a great orator yourself.
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The truly inspired orator forgets himself in the subject of his eloquence.
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Bismarck was not an orator in the ordinary acceptation of the word.
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The greatest orator in the world can only move his immediate hearers.
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Soon the listeners began to observe something strange in the orator himself.
12
Of course, the interest of the audience and of the orator conspire.
13
Mr. Beecher had the temperament, the habits, the physique of the orator.
14
The same is true in regard to an orator and his audience.
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In different ways, however: because where the orator persuades, the politician judges.
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It was the voice of a born orator, rich in possible modulations.
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