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Oratorical
Oratorical meaning
of, or relating to oratory or an orator.
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He placed first in the district’s oratorical competition for three years, first in the NAACP’s local ACT-SO competition and first in the notable Otis Moss Jr. Oratorical Contest at Morehouse College.
Manley’s vision, Patterson said, was rooted in “a search for equality and the building of a just society, a cause to which he devoted his catalytic energy, his fertile imagination all eloquently couched with his persuasive oratorical mastery”.
It is also said he was unmoved by oratorical skills and laid emphasis on facts and facts alone.
An oratorical contest at Wabash College, which is in Crawfordsville, inspired him to start the contest in Madison He left teaching and moved to the Cincinnati area, where he worked for a safe company in Hamilton, Ohio.
Long Trail School ninth graders Avery Carter, Isabel Blankenbaker and Ben Park recently attained the top three places in the local American Legion oratorical competitions.
The event also featured an Oratorical Contest where high school seniors competed for scholarships of up to $10,000.
Cambridge University Press, p. 63 He became a licensed preacher in 1839, citation and this helped him hone his oratorical skills.
Cicero's oratorical skill is shown in his character assassination of Verres and various other techniques of persuasion used on the jury.
Despite his oratorical skill, Cicero pressed for a more liberal education in Roman instruction which focused more in the broad sciences including Roman history.
Fronto put an uncharitable interpretation of Marcus' "conversion to philosophy": "in the fashion of the young, tired of boring work", Marcus had turned to philosophy to escape the constant exercises of oratorical training.
HA Marcus 6.5; Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 58. He was required to make a speech to the assembled senators as well, making oratorical training essential for the job.
He lacked a commanding presence or oratorical skill; his best writing was academic, and did not resonate with the electorate. citation Cold and tactless in human relations, he had allies but very few close personal friends.
I have seldom met with a man, possessing, in my opinion, a stronger mind, or whose mode of expression was more vehement and oratorical.
Mott, a Quaker, was famous for her oratorical ability, which was rare during an era in which women were often not allowed to speak in public.
Oratorical skill Herma of Demosthenes: the head is a copy of the bronze posthumous commemorative statue in the Ancient Agora of Athens by Polyeuctus (ca. 280 BC); this herm was found in the Circus of Maxentius in 1825 ( Glyptothek, Munich ).
Powell also stated that there was "no doubt in my mind" that Saddam was working to obtain key components to produce nuclear weapons. citation Most observers praised Powell's oratorical skills.
Rhetoric began as a civic art in Ancient Greece where students were trained to develop tactics of oratorical persuasion, especially in legal disputes.