(a.) Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Egyptian viewers will long remember the episode in March when Youssef mocked Morsi's oratorical skills.
(2) Romney supporters talk up Obama's oratorical skills, while the president's campaign has been claiming that Romney has had a great deal of practice at debates during his nomination process.
(3) Tsipras's own oratorical flair and charisma have undoubtedly contributed to the ascent.
(4) Many had come for the first time to witness the much-vaunted oratorical skills of France’s youngest MP – and to see how she compared to her grandfather, the gruff former paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen, who co-founded the Front National in 1972 and led it to become the most successful far-right party in western Europe.
(5) She delivers that last word with a kind of oratorical vibrato.
(6) Obama: Showed only occasional flashes of his legendary oratorical skills.
(7) How did Thoreau achieve his literary voice, which has worn better, to a modern ear, than Emerson's more fluent, worldly, and - to be expected from a former clergy-man - oratorical one?
(8) It's a sign of Soini's oratorical flair how easily he can turn all these peculiarities into assets.
(9) In 2008, his lauded rhetorical skills paled in comparison to the once-in-a-lifetime oratorical genius of Barack Obama.
(10) The man at the heart of this unusual situation is Altaf Hussain, a barrel-shaped man with a caterpillar moustache and a vigorous oratorical style who inspires both reverence and fear in the sprawling south Asian city he effectively runs by remote control.
(11) I admit I would find this astonishing: May has the necessary toughness , but I do not see that she has the oratorical gifts.
(12) Her famous oratorical style combined forceful rhetoric with folksy wit, and she continued as a popular public speaker long after leaving public office.
(13) Between then and now, I have watched him make mistakes, disappoint Pasok 's grassroots, lose electoral battles, be questioned, mocked for his lacklustre oratorical style, and be called "Giorgakis" (the diminutive of his first name) with more than a touch of sarcasm.
(14) In Belgravia, central London , Helene Oratore describes her family's life in their six-storey Regency house amid seemingly endless expansion work by neighbours seeking to eke out extra space now valued at £2,500 per sq ft. At one point last year, a third of the 23 homes in her street were covered in scaffolding and hoardings: "Next door is digging out a double basement and the noise is endless.
(15) Middle-class observers would pronounce him a saint, in the wake of another oratorical tour de force which invoked the Sermon on the Mount or invited them to ponder what it would profit a man that he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul.
(16) And what Sturgeon lacks in the oratorical furbelow and cosy wit that was Salmond’s stock in trade, she made up for in detail.
(17) With all three television networks offering live coverage of the march for jobs and freedom, this would be his oratorical introduction to the nation.
(18) The Labour leader insisted he is energised by campaigning – making speeches in market squares on a pallet, not he insists a soapbox, the oratorical weapon of John Major.
Oratory
Definition:
(n.) A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.
(n.) The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.
Example Sentences:
(1) My wife is ex-Workers Revolutionary Party, so let’s not go there – she’s mellowed a bit down the years!” Whelan was a bright boy who passed the 11-plus and went to grammar school: the Oratory, where Tony Blair sent his children.
(2) If you haven’t seen it,” Clinton said, “you need to see her speech in New Hampshire.” Michelle Obama denounces Trump's rhetoric: 'It has shaken me to my core' Read more In fact, Obama’s oratory was a Clinton campaign highlight Thursday, a much-shared, widely tweeted and overwhelmingly celebrated defense of girls’ and women’s rights not to be demeaned or assaulted by anyone, not a construction worker on the street or the man who would be president.
(3) The movie sticks mostly to the facts , although a community meeting in a church, where Obama displays his rare talent for oratory, is incorporated from a later date.
(4) Choice of the Oratory was criticised because the school had opted out of local authority control; choice of St Olave's was criticised because admission was selective.
(5) The Oratory, which achieves about twice the national average for GCSE scores, did not respond to a request for comment.
(6) Former prime minister Tony Blair was also heavily criticised for sending his sons to the selective Oratory school in south London.
(7) Martin was alleged to have met at least six pupils in his rooms at the London Oratory church, to which the highly regarded school is affiliated.
(8) Ritchie began designing the bike in 1975 from his flat in South Kensington, London, which overlooked Brompton Oratory, the imposing Roman Catholic church from which he took the name.
(9) Related special report Special report: religion in the UK Related stories 5 December: Sex abuse issue haunts the Catholic church 6 November: Archbishop steps aside in paedophile scandal 5 November: Bishop ignored warnings over abuser priests 13 September: Nolan to review Catholic rules on child abuse Useful links The London Oratory school ChildLine ChildLine's child abuse factsheet Hammersmith and Fulham council
(10) Political events continue to remind us of the importance of persuasive arguments and good oratory that appeal not only to our rational side, but our emotional side too.” He also thinks the ability to see the other side is particularly important.
(11) The Conservative party today pounced gleefully on an embarrassing dilemma for Prime Minister Tony Blair as his children's school, the London Oratory, sent a letter to parents asking for money after the government scrapped its grant-maintained status.
(12) The collision of history threatens to overshadow his first visit as US president to Africa's biggest economy, although his oratory can be expected to rise to the occasion of honouring the anti-apartheid hero.
(13) With all the arrogance of 21 I replied: ‘A harmless lunatic with the gift of oratory.’ I can still hear his retort: ‘No lunatic with the gift of oratory is harmless.’” Binchy had a second encounter with Hitler in Berlin in 1930, when the Nazis were on the brink of power.
(14) The Office of the Schools Adjudicator ruled that the London Oratory school in Fulham, a state secondary, broke a section of the official admissions code for schools intended to prevent parents from obtaining places for their offspring by giving practical or financial support to schools or associated bodies like the church.
(15) In opposition, the Blairs' decision to send one of their children to London Oratory grated with the Labour party.
(16) But having won, he returned not only to the oratory but to famous lines from earlier speeches, reprising once again his 2008 slogan about "hope".
(17) He was not a dynamic leader, had no great powers of oratory, but he knew absolutely everything that was going on in school,” says Michael Allen, who taught him history and cricket.
(18) "We occasionally go to the same church in Oxford – they really think there that the BBC is run from the pews of the Oratory.
(19) This is about more than great oratory, it is about a kind of fear.
(20) Faith schools like the London Oratory, which are quickly oversubscribed, can use faith-based criteria for admission to decide who gets the places.