oratorical

How To Use oratorical In A Sentence

• He knew some members of the congregation, including the president, grew restive during his discourse, and would have preferred a more oratorical, hortative style, but he felt his type of sermon was more in keeping with his basic function of teacher, implicit in the word "rabbi. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
• I won first place in the English Oratorical Contest of our university.
• harangued his men in an oratorical way
• At Milan, where at first he used to come to the cathedral to admire Ambrose's oratorical skill, he found himself not only impressed by the content of the discourses but also gripped by the psalm chants.
• Had farmer Charest been a second "Mark Antony," the recognition of his oratorical ability could not have been more marked. A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories
• More foundation and less rhetoric, son, he would say, but Gregory found that his oratorical bombast impressed other people. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
• With the exception of the two or three at the front, no one has her hands free to grab the haranguer by the throat and close the oratorical stop-cock. The French Revolution - Volume 3
• His histrionic oratorical style sometimes distracts from his message.
• In two sentences, he posits a fourth genre of rhetoric, one that characterizes most of the speeches featured in the address, and one particularly well suited to marginalized rhetors with limited access to traditional oratorical venues.
• With the single exception of Ferdinand Lassalle, there was no revolutionary leader who was not an obvious impossibilist in practical politics; and Lassalle got himself killed in a romantic and quite indefensible duel after wrecking his health in a titanic oratorical campaign which convinced him that the great majority of the working classes were not ready to join him, and that the minority who were ready did not understand him. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring