Oratory
noun
The skill or practice of formal speaking in public.
He was known for his powerful oratory in political debates.
Often appears as...
- public oratory
- political oratory
noun
A small chapel, especially for private worship.
He would retreat to the oratory for private prayer.
Often appears as...
- private oratory
- family oratory
noun
The skill or practice of formal speaking in public.
He was known for his powerful oratory in political debates.
Often appears as...
- public oratory
- political oratory
noun
A small chapel, especially for private worship.
He would retreat to the oratory for private prayer.
Often appears as...
- private oratory
- family oratory
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Public Speaking
Oratory involves speaking to groups, often persuading or informing them.
Her oratory captivated the audience at the conference.
Pro Tip 2/3Persuasive Context
Oratory is often used in situations where the speaker aims to convince others.
His oratory at the debate influenced the voters' opinions.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotionally Charged
Good oratory can stir emotions and inspire action among listeners.
Her impassioned oratory spurred the crowd to cheer.
Pro Tip 1/3Public Speaking
Oratory involves speaking to groups, often persuading or informing them.
Her oratory captivated the audience at the conference.
Pro Tip 2/3Persuasive Context
Oratory is often used in situations where the speaker aims to convince others.
His oratory at the debate influenced the voters' opinions.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotionally Charged
Good oratory can stir emotions and inspire action among listeners.
Her impassioned oratory spurred the crowd to cheer.
Pro Tip 1/3Public Speaking
Oratory involves speaking to groups, often persuading or informing them.
Her oratory captivated the audience at the conference.
Pro Tip 2/3Persuasive Context
Oratory is often used in situations where the speaker aims to convince others.
His oratory at the debate influenced the voters' opinions.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotionally Charged
Good oratory can stir emotions and inspire action among listeners.
Her impassioned oratory spurred the crowd to cheer.
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Feats of memory anyone...
vestige of when people used to think about oratory and rhetoric in these sorts of spatial terms the phrase in the first place that's like in the first place of your memory palace I thought this was just fascinating and I got really into it and I went to a few more
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but they turn big, public spaces like this, shared soundscapes, into millions of tiny, little personal sound bubbles. In this scenario, nobody's listening to anybody. We're becoming impatient. We don't want oratory anymore; we want sound bites.
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Feats of memory anyone...
vestige of when people used to think about oratory and rhetoric in these sorts of spatial terms the phrase in the first place that's like in the first place of your memory palace I thought this was just fascinating and I got really into it and I went to a few more
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5 ways to listen better...
but they turn big, public spaces like this, shared soundscapes, into millions of tiny, little personal sound bubbles. In this scenario, nobody's listening to anybody. We're becoming impatient. We don't want oratory anymore; we want sound bites.
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
James Howard Kunstler
American Author
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.
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Charles Horton Cooley
American Sociologist
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
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David Harewood
English Actor
My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.
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Emily Post
American Author
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
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David Josiah Brewer
American Judge
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Poet
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
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Seamus Heaney
Irish Poet
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
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David Hare
English Playwright
In oratory the will must predominate.
Quote examples
James Howard Kunstler
American Author
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.
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Charles Horton Cooley
American Sociologist
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
Quote examples
David Harewood
English Actor
My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.
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Emily Post
American Author
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
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David Josiah Brewer
American Judge
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Poet
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
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Seamus Heaney
Irish Poet
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
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David Hare
English Playwright
In oratory the will must predominate.
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