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Meanings of oratory in English
The art of speaking in public eloquently or effectively.
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Examples for "speaking"
Examples for "speaking"
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Finance Minister Grant Robertson, speaking on Morning Report today, backed her position.
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A large number of asylum-seekers in Ireland come from non-English speaking countries.
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This is far from reality, he said, speaking to Reuters from Turkey.
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However, speaking to Donald McRae five years ago, he highlighted his difficulties.
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However, also speaking in parliament, the former prime minister denied all wrongdoing.
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The second sort of argumentation has four divisions; the third has three.
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The constitutional aspects of the problem called forth some exceedingly able argumentation.
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And in this way they think that such argumentation has five divisions.
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In Montaigne, however, we discover the clue of such a senseless argumentation.
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The reason why I find value in Galbraith's argumentation should be clear.
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She felt shy, worried about public speaking, but passionate about the issue.
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But I also realized my new passion is public speaking and teaching.
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I'm telling you this to explain my general aversion to public speaking.
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My fear of public speaking was as irrational as it was extreme.
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The art of public speaking is so simple that it is difficult.
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They study the art of speaking, of question, allegation and rejoinder.
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Is not pleading 'an art of speaking unconnected with the truth'?
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He was a close student of the art of speaking.
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Hitherto, strangers have expected to find there an exhibition of the art of speaking.
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The art of speaking from both sides of your mouth.
Usage of oratory in English
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Past visits of American presidents to Ireland have come with stirring oratory.
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He did nothing in the line of oratory while in the Senate.
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I and this Félix Broux were in the oratory and heard it.
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Here are found the most inspiring passages in the masterpieces of oratory.
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Attend the Prince to his chamber; I will retire to my oratory.
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Won Carnegie Peace Prize in Texas state intercollegiate oratory contest in 1915.
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The diction of poetry is the same as the diction of oratory.
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And how it beggars the studies eloquence of the masters of oratory.
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Therefore we see in the oratory of that time a certain formality.
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The oratory of the grazier, who seconded the resolution, was not inferior.
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They have recently placed in a tiny oratory, scooped by Guidobaldo II.
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The earliest specimen of oratory is also one of the finest specimens.
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He was agreeably surprised by the pulpit oratory of the young divine.
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But those were delightful days when I was taking lessons in oratory.
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Upon which piece of oratory and reasoning I form the following query.
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Again and again his triumphant oratory mastered the National Assembly of France.
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Oratory through the time
Oratory across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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