What's the difference between speechifying and speechmaking?
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).
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.