How To Use exordium In A Sentence
- _And for the rest, since good wine needs no hush, and an inferior beverage is not likely to be bettered by arboreal adornment, the reteller of these tales prefers to piece out his exordium (however lamely) with_ "THE PRINTER'S PREFACE. Chivalry
- In one case we know that he delivered a speech from a script; otherwise only a few important passages, chiefly the exordium and peroration, were written out in extenso beforehand.
- But now orators call exordium anything with which they begin, and consider it of advantage to make the beginning with some brilliant thought. The Training of a Public Speaker
- The Beatitudes should be seen, according to Betz, as an exordium for the entire Sermon.
- First comes an introduction, or exordium, designed to secure a favorable hearing.
- But even Melville might have blenched at Browning's final exordium.
- Beginning his exordium with high-minded praise of the intellect, he declares that the contemporary world's rightful rulers are the wise and moral.
- Chrysostom, tom.iii. p. 381 — 386, which the exordium is particularly beautiful. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Anyone who can’t figure out that this exordium is in jest and that the joke turns on the fact that Ann Coulter is not a moderate, is in severe need of remedial reading classes. About This Site
- Phutatorius, who was somewhat of a cholerick spirit, was just going to snatch the cudgels out of Didius’s hands, in order to bemaul Yorick to some purpose — and that the desperate monosyllable Z ... ds was the exordium to an oration, which, as they judged from the sample, presaged but a rough kind of handling of him; so that my uncle Toby’s good-nature felt a pang for what The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
