What's the difference between oratory and speechmaking?
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.
Speechmaking
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But, after last year, his speechmaking skills are not in doubt; he gained no extra credit for that this time.
(2) A brave speechmaker challenges his audience and a cautious one flatters them.
(3) A short film was played and speechmakers nostalgically recalled the whiff of ink, clatter of typewriters, prolific smoking (“the place was just a cloud”) and, in the bowels, giant rolls of paper that were “the raw material of freedom”, and printing presses that “shook the floor” each night, while cars queued around the block ready to rush the first edition to the White House, officials, embassies and rivals.
(4) While Zuma is much mocked by tweeting urbanites, his routine of singing, dancing and speechmaking in his first language, Zulu, appeals to the crowds in rural areas.
(5) "Similarly, those students who regard Hitler's speechmaking skills and charisma as the key to his rise to power will choose a different character to represent the Nazi leader compared to those who focus on his ability to merely capitalise upon the Weimar Republic's weaknesses or those who blame the impact of the Great Depression."
(6) Four years later, at 1pm on July 19 1900, without fanfare or speechmaking, the first carriage transported one lone passenger from Porte Maillot to Porte de Vincennes - but by the end of that year the number of journeys had reached 17m.
(7) He introduced Melania – “my wife, an amazing mother, an incredible woman”, and, it transpires, not a particularly original speechmaker.
(8) There was immediate speculation that he could earn considerable sums if he followed the path of predecessors, including Tony Blair, to take corporate money from directorships, lucrative book deals and speechmaking.
(9) He’s a bizarre speechmaker who rants about cops, cries, gives a shout out to Ohio State and mentions his hot wife , and a man of faith who is condemned to apostasy by the Republican Party, which is now just a militant evangelical splinter faction of the Chamber of Commerce dedicated to eradicating all record of the policies of the historical Jesus.