What's the difference between speechify and speechifying?

Speechify


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a speech; to harangue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I think of it as comparable to the difference between, say, Tony Bennett and Luciano Pavarotti ... On the set of Bones I have been amazed and impressed by the naturalness of the cast, and berate myself for sounding as if I'm speechifying instead of talking."
  • (2) He has the same tendency to piety, a similar style of speechifying, and the same habit of briefly acknowledging that a given issue is more complex than he himself sometimes seems to think, before making everything sound blissfully simple.
  • (3) He has banned self-indulgent government habits such as disruptive motorcades and endless speechifying at official events .
  • (4) The question is surely even more pertinent given the increasing sense that an incoming Tory government will be an altogether more austere, hard-headed set-up than Cameron's early burst of "progressive" speechifying suggested.
  • (5) Cameron’s legacy will be that there is no such thing as an economy The end result is that the recovery constantly boasted about by the Tories was so partial, so patchy and so dedicated to putting money in the pockets of the already wealthy that it makes a mockery of Theresa May’s speechifying this week about a “shared society” .
  • (6) Some of the very politicians vacillating between war-mongering and freedom-of-speechifying have wanted to pass ambiguous “cybersecurity” bills in the past that do hardly anything to increase any single company’s defenses and would have done nothing to stop the Sony attack.
  • (7) Certainly, Animal Farm seems, at its most literal, to be a litany of hypocrisies: from the double standards of the pigs (changing the commandment from "No animal shall drink alcohol" to "No animal shall drink alcohol to excess", the day after they have discovered the joys of whisky) to the false promises of Napoleon, their Stalin-like leader, and the sanctimony of his speechifying.
  • (8) •In a week-long party conference comprised mainly of soporific work reports and rhetoric-heavy speechifying, unbridled emotion has emerged as a counterintuitive motif.
  • (9) With its southern gothic setting and Rust's bleak, atheistic speechifying, the series looked set to descend into a bayou of supernatural intrigue, dark literary allusion and horror from which there is no return.
  • (10) Where this ends up is with David Cameron, that community leader for Old Etonians, speechifying in Munich about “state multiculturalism”.
  • (11) Texas Republicans' niggling over the picayune filibuster rules would give the plot some comic relief, too: they gave one of the "three strikes" allowed under the rules for accepting help in adjusting the back brace she wore to aid her during her marathon speechifying (senators are not allowed to lean on anything during their time).

Speechifying


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speechify
  • (n.) The act of making a speech or speeches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I think of it as comparable to the difference between, say, Tony Bennett and Luciano Pavarotti ... On the set of Bones I have been amazed and impressed by the naturalness of the cast, and berate myself for sounding as if I'm speechifying instead of talking."
  • (2) He has the same tendency to piety, a similar style of speechifying, and the same habit of briefly acknowledging that a given issue is more complex than he himself sometimes seems to think, before making everything sound blissfully simple.
  • (3) He has banned self-indulgent government habits such as disruptive motorcades and endless speechifying at official events .
  • (4) The question is surely even more pertinent given the increasing sense that an incoming Tory government will be an altogether more austere, hard-headed set-up than Cameron's early burst of "progressive" speechifying suggested.
  • (5) Cameron’s legacy will be that there is no such thing as an economy The end result is that the recovery constantly boasted about by the Tories was so partial, so patchy and so dedicated to putting money in the pockets of the already wealthy that it makes a mockery of Theresa May’s speechifying this week about a “shared society” .
  • (6) Some of the very politicians vacillating between war-mongering and freedom-of-speechifying have wanted to pass ambiguous “cybersecurity” bills in the past that do hardly anything to increase any single company’s defenses and would have done nothing to stop the Sony attack.
  • (7) Certainly, Animal Farm seems, at its most literal, to be a litany of hypocrisies: from the double standards of the pigs (changing the commandment from "No animal shall drink alcohol" to "No animal shall drink alcohol to excess", the day after they have discovered the joys of whisky) to the false promises of Napoleon, their Stalin-like leader, and the sanctimony of his speechifying.
  • (8) •In a week-long party conference comprised mainly of soporific work reports and rhetoric-heavy speechifying, unbridled emotion has emerged as a counterintuitive motif.
  • (9) With its southern gothic setting and Rust's bleak, atheistic speechifying, the series looked set to descend into a bayou of supernatural intrigue, dark literary allusion and horror from which there is no return.
  • (10) Where this ends up is with David Cameron, that community leader for Old Etonians, speechifying in Munich about “state multiculturalism”.
  • (11) Texas Republicans' niggling over the picayune filibuster rules would give the plot some comic relief, too: they gave one of the "three strikes" allowed under the rules for accepting help in adjusting the back brace she wore to aid her during her marathon speechifying (senators are not allowed to lean on anything during their time).

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