peroration

How To Use peroration In A Sentence

• Next comes the protracted peroration on the rank of Duke versus the rank of Prince.
• This is an elegant explanation, one that leads to Mauser's equally elegant peroration: ‘capacitating students to be competent citizens is our birthright.’
• The playing is good enough, and the engineering is better, yet the final peroration does remind me of a rush hour traffic jam in New York City.
• I found myself launching into a little peroration.
• Most notably, William Jennings Bryan, “The Great Commoner” and the fieriest critic of the new concentrations of wealth and power, fused fundamentalist religious fervor and political radicalism, culminating in his famous “Cross of Gold” peroration at the Democratic National Convention of 1896.36 The phrase “What would Jesus do?” was popularized in a bestselling 1899 novel by Charles Sheldon, a Congregational minister in Topeka, Kansas, as an appeal to overturn economic inequality. American Grace
• 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.
• After reading it I put it aside, deeply troubled as I was by the haunting resonance of its peroration, which so moved the audience.
• I see that you are expecting a peroration, but you are just too foolish if you suppose that after I have poured out a hodgepodge of words like this I can recall anything that I have said.
• He brings his peroration to a close at this point, the frogs lingering as an image of the sacred.
• However his ringing peroration struck most of those present as being ridiculous, and many laughed aloud.