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    oratory


    1. of oratory, storytelling at the Storymoja Hay Festival, where he was caught up in a tragedy and unfortunate crossfire that lead to his passing


    2. “We won’t keep you long,” he said, after quite a few minutes oratory and introduction, “We’d just like an ongoing report on your investigations


    3. I suspect that what Obama found over time that he needed each and every Sunday was some „kick-ass, burn the house down social justice, the capitalists need to fry oratory


    4. Political oratory was embellished however simple in style


    5. When he finally had their full attention, his powerful oratory rang out over their heads


    6. (Public) Oratory and (Public) Action(s) cannot be separated lest a (Public) Servant loses credibility before the (Public) Eye


    7. He stepped forward confidently to take his place on the oratory branch


    8. Kormos moved his glance towards Ranger; he stepped aside, as a mark of respect, and offered the oratory branch to Ranger to complete the story


    9. Ranger accepted the invitation by stepping up to the oratory branch


    10. It wasn't acceptable to interrupt the leader of the Wood Sprites when he was on the oratory branch

    11. "It's my first time on the oratory branch, and I'm a little nervous


    12. Only a few statesmen, chief among them Winston Churchill, at the time put Mein Kampf and the messages of Hitler’s oratory together


    13. They were paid teachers who taught the art of rhetoric, or persuasive oratory


    14. The great Tecumseh used fiery oratory and set about building a coalition to stop the settlement of Indian lands


    15. Obama’s seductive oratory


    16. Barack Hussein Obama and his “golden oratory” were the perfect foil for the hard left that now has its hands around the necks of America and the Democratic Party


    17. It did not take long after his election to see the real Barrack Hussein Obama begin to emerge from under the clouds of his campaign oratory


    18. The truth behind Obama’s intent is obscured, as it is calculated to be, by what is widely credited as his great oratory


    19. As German bombs fell on London in the darkest hours of World War II the great oratory of Winston Churchill rallied his people to save their country


    20. Obama, dour, deadpan, and soulless, with an arrogant tilt of the head, a great orator? Is stroking with soothing words those whose wonderful country he intends to drag down into sociofascist poverty quite the same thing? Is a wigwagging mist of rhetoric, soaring from alternate TelePrompTers, if seemingly enticing upon emission, but vaporizing when pursued for substance, great oratory? There must be another word for it

    21. Galle, the administrator at my school, felt it was ‘too racy for our young developing minds,’” stated Nem in a pompous oratory


    22. They were both surprised by Patrick’s calmly delivered speech and oratory skills seeing that he had put a lot of effort into it


    23. Excepting oratory, he was the peer of his associates in almost every imaginable ability


    24. Jesus' preaching was so effective because of his unique personality, not so much because of compelling oratory or emotional appeal


    25. "The Romanov gold," said Horricks in the slow, pedantic oratory used by politicians when they are unsure of the way ahead


    26. Not when Canada is making a big play at improving Soviet-Canadian relations with a view to multi-million dollar export contracts," he said, recalling the Minister's magnificent oratory that Saturday afternoon in Ottawa


    27. There were very few who surpassed her skills in oratory, as witnessed by another stellar keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 1992


    28. At the university, Bob was still a prankster who was fond of dancing, wrestling, acting, sailing and especially oratory


    29. Diane Nash was involved in the sit-ins and was impressed by Baker’s oratory skills, hoping to be able to do what Ella was doing


    30. He wanted to assert his prime ministerial qualification and use his oratory as a weapon

    31. Instead of leaving the oratory and going over to the hermitage where his cell was, the abbot knelt down and pulled out a small wooden prayer bench from underneath the chair behind the podium from which he sang God's praises day and night with the community


    32. After some time, he oriented himself back to the present and to the oratory and wondered about the moon


    33. It was long gone, shining down on the oratory but not to be seen from within


    34. He gently rose and put his prayer bench back under the chair behind the wooden podium of his choir stall and moved toward the door with complete assurance that someone was sitting on the floor in the choir stall across from his on the other side of the oratory


    35. You can come over and sit in the oratory after your last patient in the evening for twenty minutes or a half hour


    36. The atmosphere is sometimes charged with a lot of energy in that oratory


    37. It was perfectly dark in the oratory, with the exception of the candle flame, as the community celebrated the liturgical Office of Vigils during which they keep watch for the Christ who breaks into their day and who will come again at the end of time


    38. He had an overwhelming sense that John had been to the oratory to pray last night


    39. Then he realized that the community was waiting for him to end the office with the usual prayer and so he did, trying not to sound startled or hurried: "Come Lord Jesus!" With that one or two sat down in their choir stalls and the others left the oratory


    40. Thank you for the use of the oratory

    41. At the end of the Office everyone bowed to the presence of the sacred as manifested in the front of the oratory by cross, altar, bible, and tabernacle, and then filed out


    42. The Hindu monastic made his way over to the oratory for some private meditation before Evening Prayer was to be celebrated


    43. The oratory was made of plain wood, varnished and simple on the inside, white and simple on the outside


    44. Two men who served as carpenter and electrician for the building of the new, and strikingly beautiful, local Presbyterian church did the electrical wiring and inner insulation and paneling for the monastic oratory


    45. My time of meditation in the oratory before Evening Prayer brought great clarity to my thoughts


    46. Being in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, as you wonderful folks call the consecrated bread in the oratory tabernacle, and immersed in the spiritual energy of this place, was very helpful in gaining clarity


    47. The small community was just finishing the Office of Morning Prayer and drifted slowly out of the oratory which was to the left of the visitors


    48. The abbot then went to the oratory to join the community for Night Prayer, the Office of Compline that completes the day


    49. As if on cue, the heater in the oratory exploded, then thumped and then rattled into stillness


    50. She would also spend a long time in the oratory wrestling with God





































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    Synonyms for "oratory"

    oratory rite prayer ritual mass meeting church

    "oratory" definitions

    addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)