speechmaking

speech·mak·er

 (spēch′mā′kər)

n.

One who makes a speech.

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speech′mak′ing n.

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Speechmaking

 

1. An after-dinner speech is like a love letter. Ideally, you should begin by not knowing what you are going to say, and end by not knowing what you’ve said —Lord Jowitt
2. Eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring —Henry St. John, Viscount Bolinbroke
3. A good speech is like a pencil; it has to have a point like a breathless messenger’s report —James Atlas
4. Great eloquence, like a flame, must have fuel to feed it, motion to excite it, and brightens by burning —Tacitus

   William Pitt the Younger is often credited with coining this simile, which was in fact a paraphrase from an unknown source: “It is with eloquence as with a flame; it requires fuel to feed it, motion to excite it, and brightens as it burns.”

5. His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, but all disordered —William Shakespeare
6. Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make tears dance when we long to move the stars —Gustave Flaubert
7. Make a speech that’s like a long-horned steer, with a point here and there and a lot of bull in between —Norman Mailer
8. Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing —Edward Bulwer-Lytton
9. Pompous words and long pauses which lie like a leaden pain over fever —Norman Mailer

   The pompous words and pauses were heard by Mailer at the 1960 Democratic convention.

10. Rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root —John Selden
11. Sermons are like pie crusts, the shorter the better —Austin O’Malley
12. Speeches are like babies: easy to conceive, hard to deliver —Pat O’Malley
13. Speeches forgotten, like a maiden speech, which all men praise, but none remember —Winthrop Mackworth Praed
14. A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill —Lord Mancroft, Reader’s Digest, February, 1967
15. A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you’ve got to go on —William Thomas Piper

    Piper’s involvement with airplanes makes this particularly appropriate.

16. Speech is shallow as time —Thomas Carlyle
17. Speech is silver; silence is golden —Thomas Carlyle
18. The speech of men is like embroidered tapestries, since, like them, it must be extended in order to display its patterns; but, when it is rolled up, it conceals and distorts them —Plutarch
19. The speech … took shape in his head as clearly and precisely as if it were an official report —Leo Tolstoy

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

speechmaking - delivering an address to a public audience; "people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking" oral presentation, public speaking, speaking recitation, recital, reading - a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems" speech, address - the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets" disputation, public debate, debate - the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote)

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Translations

speechmaking

[ˈspiːtʃˌmeɪkɪŋ] N

1. (= making of speeches) → pronunciación f de discursos

2. (= speeches collectively) → discursos mpl

3. (pej) = speechifying

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speechmaking

[ˈspiːtʃˌmeɪkɪŋ] n (slightly) (pej) → discorsi mpl d'occasione

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