| 单词 | speechify |
| 例句 | When Mr. Frederick Douglass is speechifying he says that the second hardest step in making yourself free is the first one that you take. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z There is a strong speechifying tendency in corrections. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa said everything was all right with the celebrating until the parade got to the schoolhouse and most of the speechifying was over. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The mayor grins wide, and there is a smattering of applause in reaction to his speechifying. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We soon learned that meant he was about to speechify us. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Lost Illusions” is in some ways a very old-fashioned, supremely French movie, full of costumes and quill pens, sex and speechifying, and stylish acting even in the smallest roles. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z There’s a Shakespearean grandeur to the deluded Borkman as he staggers shaggy-haired into the snow, speechifying to the night sky like Lear cast out into the storm. Dark Clouds Over London Stages 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Singing, trumpeting and spitting while speechifying are occupational hazards most other professions don’t face. Should the American Theater Take French Lessons? 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Viola Davis won best actress and continued her run of seemingly off-the-cuff elegant and touching speechifying. The Carpetbagger: Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams and a Game of Musical Chairs 2012-01-13T16:23:12Z Economy is not among Ms. Malpede’s gifts, and all the characters in the play are given to elaborate, purply speechifying about their tortured relationships or the cruel exigencies of a world constantly riven by conflict. | 'Prophecy': The Legacy of Wars in Karen Malpede?s Play 2010-06-10T23:30:00Z While political theater, as a genre, has a tendency to speechify about sociopolitical issues from the safety of the stage, Rau at least gets up close to his subjects. ‘Antigone in the Amazon’ Review: The Drama Is Brazil’s Land War 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z There is a strong female lead, an almost painful peeling back of the layers of sexual and structural violence against women, and a lot of feminist speechifying. How to watch Netflix as a feminist 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “When you hear ‘Machine Gun’ or ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ there was much more said in those tunes than if he was a speechifying dude. Music: Beyond the Jimi Hendrix Experience 2010-02-27T03:40:00Z More speechifying is unleashed, this time about the connection between violence against animals and later, even more unspeakable acts. Tony Kaye's Detachment: A Miserable Education 2012-03-22T17:09:55Z At least in the early going, the current season avoids the sentimental speechifying about truth and justice that became increasingly prevalent in Season 1. Television Review: ‘The Hour,’ With Dominic West, on BBC America 2012-11-27T23:57:23Z Instead, the background details of the telecommuting legislators competed with the public-health questions and speechifying. Fauci Hearing: Who Were Those Masked (and Unmasked) Senators? 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z And on he goes, speechifying and bullying, through the rest of the book. Review: Noah Hawley’s ‘Before the Fall’ Is One of the Year’s Best Suspense Novels 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Baker argues otherwise in this well-constructed drama, which beneath its placid surface is as political as any play by George Bernard Shaw — one of her apparent inspirations — but without his dense, intrusive speechifying. ‘Chains’ Review: Drab Lives, but Dreaming of More 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Where the characters in Book One felt fully inhabited, their offspring are more distant, at times marionettes given to speechifying and doing the bidding of their author. The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska – review by Lloyd Jones 2013-06-13T06:12:13Z But the movie dilutes its impact with lackluster direction of samey scenes — people in hotel rooms speechifying — and a distracting nighttime soap subplot. ‘National Champions’ Review: A College Football Revolution 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z “Crown Vic” sidesteps any genuine ethical consideration of his choices, deploying a melodramatic twist and some grandiose speechifying that seems to respond defensively — and simplistically — to current debates about police brutality. ‘Crown Vic’ Review: A Cop Thriller Abounding in Cliché 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Many of its members are students of the singsong-yelling school of speechifying, a trait that severely reduced the impact of, for instance, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s otherwise engaging speech Monday evening. The Democratic convention has been a slick production — and that’s a compliment 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The lengthy speechifying — in language packed with allusions to ancient mythology — is as stiff as the songs are rowdy. ‘Nero/Pseudo’ by WSC Avant Bard fiddles away its glam-rock musical potential So “Civil War” pauses for a few moments of chin-scratching and speechifying about whether a group of genetically advantaged, highly weaponized individuals should be brought under the supervision of the United Nations. Review: In ‘Captain America: Civil War,’ Super-Bro Against Super-Bro 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Chuck D’s speechifying is pugnacious and mesmerizing, accented by Flavor Flav’s urgent exhortations. ‘Fight the Power’ Roars Back to Relevance at the Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z With the No-Thanks Amendment freeing up much of the 45 seconds allotted for acceptance speeches, political speechifying could become highly oppressive, possibly polarizing and certainly incoherent. No Thanks. Really, Oscar Winners, Skip That Part. 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z I don’t care that her speechifying has reignited her marriage. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 6: Trade Delegation 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Finally, after an hour of speechifying, the lights dimmed and the movie began. SIFF 2012 opening night: The line forms here 2012-05-18T10:08:25Z Both actors playing Peggy convey this much with withering, meaningful glances rather than histrionic speechifying, which has been a touch subtle for some of the internet’s simpler cultural critics. The Irishman: the murder, the women, the ending – discuss with spoilers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The film trilogy begins with a young idealist speechifying in a weed-strewn stadium to a few kids in uniform. This week's new exhibitions 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z “Just Mercy” features a handful of scenes of Stevenson speechifying about why he is doing this magnanimous work. In "Just Mercy," Michael B. Jordan brings dignity to the story of a real-life Atticus Finch 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Who outside of Aaron Sorkin’s world stops in the middle of their office full of people who work for a union to speechify about the importance of unions? Won't Back Down: Maggie Gyllenhaal Burns to Be Erin Brockovich 2012-09-27T18:01:29Z Television relies more on dialogue and conversation, and there, “Devs” is shakier, given to unnatural expository downloads and speechifying. Review: ‘Devs’ Is a Cold and Beautiful Machine 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Daryl has become a deceitful killing machine, which is hard to believe, and I'm no longer engaged by any of the characters except possibly Ezekiel when he's speechifying. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z There is a good deal of speechifying from both the left and the right, none of it favorable to Kurt’s policies or personality. Looking for the lighter side to a nasty election? Playwright Jon Robin Baitz delivers it in 'Vicuña' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z He listens intently during warm nights spent on the porch with Aunt Hager, with an occasional visit from Sister Johnson or the speechifying Madam de Carter. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The actors are disciplined and serious, forgoing the table-pounding and speechifying that might more readily win them prizes from their peers. Review: In ‘Spotlight,’ The Boston Globe Digs Up the Catholic Church’s Dirt 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Once again his resistance to one-note thinking keeps his book short on speechifying, long on humanity. Books of The Times: A Collector of Road Trips, Just Passing Through 2010-02-17T23:31:00Z There is no small measure of pontifical speechifying about interfaith conflict. Review: ‘Nathan the Wise’ Brings a Morality Tale to Today 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The genre has allowed filmmakers to confront race relations but in a rock-’em, sock-’em context: low on speechifying, high on car chases. Film: Buddies Cracking Jokes and Heads 2010-02-19T23:52:00Z “Carlyle,” directed at a brisk clip by Benjamin Kamine and powered by the dynamic Mr. Jones, is loosely put together and sometimes devolves into random speechifying. Beyond the Trump Show? Two Political Plays in Chicago Give It a Try 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But for all Huck’s speechifying, he actually trusts and respects authority. Mark Twain invented Mitt 2012-07-06T14:20:00Z “Crime+Punishment” advances a thorough critique of American law enforcement not by generalizing or speechifying, but by digging into particular lives and circumstances, allowing affected individuals to speak for themselves. Review: ‘Crime+Punishment’ Is a Tough Documentary About Police Abuses 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Though a few conversations mark her mind-set, there is no speechifying or grandstanding. Review: ‘Paulina’ Looks at the Dark Side of Idealism 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z “Happy as Brian and I were, I was destroying him,” Norma Bee speechifies. Books of The Times: A Very Big Man and the Brother Who Resents Him 2011-07-31T21:15:13Z He is speechifying the way we talk: He’s emotional. Donald Trump’s dangerously effective style: “He’s more human when he talks than just about any other figure we have seen in a long time” 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z “At some points, his problem with Malcolm was that he was speechifying. But Malcolm’s objective was to speechify, to present his arguments.” Missing Malcolm X Writings, Long a Mystery, Are Sold 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z When the talk turns to politics, Ms. Stevenson’s dialogue turns into speechifying. Theater Review: ?Federer Versus Murray? by Gerda Stevenson at 59E59 Theaters 2012-04-15T18:21:49Z The pilot episode of “How to Get Away With Murder” is promisingly slick and suspenseful, without all the histrionic, staccato speechifying that Ms. Rhimes favors on “Scandal.” Viola Davis Plays Shonda Rhimes’s Latest Tough Heroine 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z That such speechifying can be forgiven says something about Kalfar’s wild imagination, his ingenuity, his heart. Meet an Intergalactic Spider in ‘Spaceman of Bohemia’ 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z So Oliver ended with his own stunt: the filibuster against the filibuster, in which he packed 15 hours of speechifying into one minute behind a podium. John Oliver: filibusters make US Senate 'a giant non-functioning roadblock' 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z There is lots of coupling and uncoupling, and some speechifying about the radical theater world and feminism. ‘Fallout,’ by Sadie Jones, a tale of passion and imperfect love in 1970s London theater world Not that his speechifying was anywhere near as subtle. Review | U2 goes MAGA at FedEx Field 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The documentary stops dead at one point for speechifying about absolute freedom. Movie Review: Werner Herzog’s ‘Happy People: A Year in the Taiga’ 2013-01-25T01:35:29Z 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. Down with dark: why screen drama needs to lighten up 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z There is no speechifying and no sentimentality: the characters don’t learn a redeeming lesson, offer a political insight or bond in a heartwarming way. Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z When the action moves to Germany, he also speechifies to a member of a rising right-wing nationalist group about the dangers of letting a tyrant attain power. Review: It’s 1996, and Jack Reacher Is Playing Nice With Others 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z You’ll want to pay close attention to the passionate Rhode Island punk band Downtown Boys — even between songs when the political speechifying of singer Victoria Ruiz threatens to become a wild music of its own. Maren Morris stands out on a stacked country bill at Fillmore Silver Spring 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z This means that on one level, “Skylight” is a debate play à la George Bernard Shaw, with some of the attendant speechifying. Review: ‘Skylight,’ With Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, Opens on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s been the mode of almost all of the streaming giant’s Marvel shows: dull, often pointlessly nasty brutality with some languid speechifying between crunching bones. The Punisher: was there ever a right time for Netflix's gun-toting vigilante show? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z My only complaint is that they and Dorfman's Korinsky are overburdened near the end with explanatory speechifying that is absent from the story and not needed here. Tragic 'Twenty-Seventh Man' brings power of the pen to bear 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Rusty speechifies about "heart, focus, and conviction," something Ty Roberts' film has in abundance. Aw, shucks! "12 Mighty Orphans" is the Depression-era underdog sports hokum you've been missing 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Kushner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, used newspaper and witness accounts to help with the speechifying in the House of Representatives, but “they didn’t actually transcribe in the 19th century,” he said. The Carpetbagger: Writers Rethink Words for the Big Screen 2013-01-02T23:34:49Z But everybody comes across as human here: the conniving ecclesiastics who propel Henry into war, the fatuous French Dauphin, the speechifying Welsh Captain Fluellen and Henry's disreputable old chums from his wild youth. ArtsBeat: In London, a 'Henry V' That Doesn't Take Sides 2012-06-27T15:15:09Z Recently appointed the chairman of the Democratic National Convention by President Obama, he offered his customary mix of stump speechifying and pop culture addiction. The Carpetbagger: Plenty of Stars but Only One Mayor and Film Fan 2012-02-24T21:25:46Z The luncheon ceremony at the AFI Awards is notable for its expertly edited clip reels and its lack of speechifying, meaning it is as relaxed an event as trophy season musters. The Carpetbagger: AFI’s Top 10 Could Be a Clue to Oscar Nominees 2013-12-09T20:30:35Z I'm not generally into political speechifying, but this is a wondrous, historic speech, full of profound themes and an artful use of the English language. Roundup: A Rembrandt returns, finding Mary Ellen Mark's iconic smoking girl 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z After a brutal, kinetic beginning — a scene of muddy, hand-to-hand combat that evokes the opening of “Saving Private Ryan”— “Lincoln” settles down into what looks like the familiar pageantry and speechifying of costume drama. Movie Review: ‘Lincoln,’ by Steven Spielberg, Stars Daniel Day-Lewis 2012-11-08T13:00:00Z Your own vocal maturation — from mute water-breather to babbling baby to speechifying adult — is a sort of microcosm of the vocal evolution of the species. Get to Know Your Larynx. Then Make Some Noise. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z This is the speechifying part of the book. Books of The Times: Exotic Creatures and the Humans Who Chase Them 2010-03-01T06:01:00Z There was a lot of bombast in the air back then; grand-sounding but inflammatory writing and speechifying were in fashion, including among abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison. ‘Lincoln Speaks: Words That Transformed a Nation’ at Morgan Library 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The Jan. 6 hearings, on the other hand, recognized that TV is a visual medium, and that images — like the footage of the assault on the Capitol — can say more than speechifying. The Jan. 6 Hearings Did a Great Service, by Making Great TV 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z After the exhausting marathon of testimonies and speechifying, I just wanted somebody to remind me of the essence of what the hell was going on. The Art of the Impeachment Podcast 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The actual writing is rarely so unsubtle, except when Payne yields the floor to earnest speechifying about carnal needs and emotional desires. “Wanderlust,” Reviewed: Toni Collette in a Self-Help Soap Opera 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z As this druid high priestess, caught in a forbidden love triangle with a Roman soldier and a fellow priestess, Yoncheva can be forceful in declamation — the singing that’s more like speechifying. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z But they also turned the trial into a loopy spectacle that included rambling speechifying, outbursts of protest and Ms. Malina’s recitation of her poems. Judith Malina, Founder of the Living Theater, Dies at 88 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Cicero, who has been observing this speechifying from the sidelines, makes a wry prediction for Catiline’s probable success. Far From Home, but Not Far Enough 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z It becomes an occasion for brief speechifying, but the schoolteachers, Pat and Bar, are also comically clueless and mild. Books of The Times: New Comic Novels From Dave Barry and Tim Dorsey 2013-01-16T20:43:01Z You can’t simply throw around hulking abstractions like “lies” and “fear” and “terror,” expecting the reader to mistake speechifying for wisdom. From New York to Barcelona, a Poet With His Eye on Politics 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z He wrote speechifying soliloquies, conversational duets and chattery trios and quartets. Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Indeed, Trina’s shorthand invocation of “the system” may say more about her fondness for speechifying than about Gia’s specific circumstances. Review: 'Earth Mama,' Savanah Leaf's portrait of Black motherhood, is a quietly extraordinary debut 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z After his Woodland Park appearance, plus a downtown parade and reception at Volunteer Park, his major speechifying ended at the UW. A century ago, a Seattle speech foreshadowed the death of a president 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z A statewide high-school oratory contest is in town, and the kids are speechifying on “Why Do Americans Believe in Democracy?” Novelist Richard Ford's Great American Gasbag takes a deflating road trip 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z In lieu of speechifying and ribbons, and with sponsors ranging from Google to Hulu, Ms. Davis’s team of researchers began producing receipts. How Sexist Is Hollywood? Check Out Geena Davis’s Spreadsheet 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z But when Trump himself starts speechifying, they get bored and leave. Calm down! Indictment won't help Trump 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z That kind of speechifying echoes the strongman rhetoric favored by fascist dictators, but it also has an Old Testament resonance; the vengeful, God-anointed king raised up to battle the forces of worldly wickedness. Trump and DeSantis go biblical 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The speechifying tone of the language Hellesen offers Eisenhower precludes any sense of intimacy. Review: The main reason to see “Eisenhower”? Actor John Rubinstein's earnest portrayal of Ike 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z As a TV show, however, it is uncomfortably like a play, with episodes of speechifying and dialogue that sound more constructed than natural. In 'Mammals,' James Corden plays a man it's hard to root for 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z She couldn’t sleep thinking about the difference between what was on the recording and what Herrera speechified about at her fundraiser with the Black Women’s Democratic Club — his talk of solidarity. Column: In the 'House of Labor,' racism cracks the foundation 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z His Oath Keepers attire might have one think that he has the sort of booming baritone that commands authority from 50 paces, but his speechifying tone is light on bass and heavy on dire warnings. Perspective | Stewart Rhodes romanticized deadly force and called it patriotism 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z As it has done so, the committee has not had to contend with speechifying from the dais about Mr. Trump’s conservative policy achievements. A Year Later, Some Republicans Second-Guess Boycotting the Jan. 6 Panel 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Committee members are proving themselves far more disciplined than many expected in containing self-promoting speechifying. Opinion | Thanks, Kevin McCarthy, for making the Jan. 6 hearings worthwhile 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z It proved to be a stunning act of diplomatic showmanship, a digital performance that turned conventional world-leader speechifying on its head. Perspective | Zelensky’s address to Congress was a dramatic appeal in three acts 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Friday is the misleadingly named "March for Life," an annual event where the anti-choice brigade descends on Washington D.C. to march, speechify and party for the cause of forcing childbirth as punishment for sex. "March for Life" is a misnomer — GOP's pro-COVID stance makes clear 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Congressmen had been speechifying all day on both sides of the issue, supporting their arguments with passages from the Bible, the Constitution, from ancient Greece and Rome and from French philosophers. Perspective | In 1915, a U.S. congressman tallied how many women in D.C. read the newspaper, then rejected their right to vote 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Either the Fed has been too slow to normalize - and judging by its frantic speechifying this year, some Fed officials appear to think that - or the ECB is being too cautious. Column: Like Tortoise vs Hare, ECB may 'normalize' before Fed 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Such marathon speechifying was the norm until 1970, but under modern Senate practice, opponents of legislation need not talk at all. Democrats are looking at multiple proposals to curb the filibuster. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z In May 1896, over three days of speechifying, White dismantled Huntington’s case, marshaled the government’s own studies, ancient mariners’ assessments and popular opinion that Santa Monica was a poor choice in almost every particular. L.A.’s port could have been in Santa Monica. Here’s how San Pedro won out 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z But there is a welcome lack of pounded tables, clenched jaws, throbbing temples and speechifying. Hulu's low-key thrilling 'Dopesick' carves Sackler name deeper into Wall of Shame 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Yes, the topics may veer toward existentialism and extinction, but they’re still promising — in oceans of speechified words and ideas and plans — to figure it all out and not simply go down with the ship. Analysis: A ‘United’ Nations, navigating a fractured world 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z I’m going to take some time to look into it before I start speechifying on it. Q&A: Sen. Ron Wyden on saving local news, democracy 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z And after all the speechifying was finished, Biden headed over to Ford’s test track and gunned an F-150 down the asphalt. Perspective | The naked face of politicking 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Depending on how the changes are structured, the “talking filibuster” could effectively tie up floor activity by allowing senators to speechify ad nauseam, particularly if they tag-team with other like-minded senators, some say. Democrats seize on Biden’s embrace of changing the filibuster 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z That left only hours of explication, of speechifying, conducted under House rules in the manner of a tennis match: one side serving, the other volleying in response. News Analysis: A dreary day of partisanship in a Capitol under siege 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z For all their screwball speechifying, the actors are in decent form here; their characters get on each other’s nerves and ours too, which under the circumstances is only fitting. Review: Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor shout a lot in the mixed-bag COVID caper 'Locked Down' 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z The unobtrusive naturalism of Sorkin’s series can sometimes war with his preference for text over subtext and love of speechifying. 'The West Wing' reunion brings the fight to Trump. And it doesn't even name him 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Cutting down on the speechifying and focusing on real people’s stories is also less likely to put viewers to sleep. Opinion | The Pandemic Could Make Political Conventions Less Terrible 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z The tableau of a presidential candidate trying to rally voters by speechifying to a relatively empty arena runs counter to most modern notions of political TV. We Now Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Convention Programming 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z There is a good deal of speechifying — indeed, the finale is made up of literal speeches — to make big points and to let the actors run. 'Hollywood' rewrites Tinseltown's racist, sexist, homophobic past. It's not convincing 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z The occasion was marked by speechifying and the singing of “Auld Lang Syne.” Brexit Is Here, and It’s a Texas-Size Defeat for the E.U. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z After two hours of speechifying, songs, and chants on the southwest lawn of the Capitol, Fonda rallied the troops for the next step. Jane Fonda’s Climate-Change Star Power 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Instead, a different cast of congressional characters engaged in the same anti- and pro-Trump speechifying that we’ve been hearing for weeks. On eve of impeachment, why the public is divided and some are tuning out 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z As anyone who has been to a town-hall meeting, or just watched one on “Parks and Recreation,” knows, it can also be an invitation for obscure speechifying, quixotic schemes, and ad-hominem sabre rattling. The Grocery Store Where Produce Meets Politics 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z As the ranking committee member, Schiff was usually allotted unlimited time for an opening statement at the committee’s public hearings — an opportunity members of Congress typically use for grandstanding and speechifying. Inside Adam Schiff’s Impeachment Game Plan 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z He’s painted his surroundings, re-imagined himself as a speechifying alligator, given handmade gifts to loyal staffers and turned spilled cough syrup into a pastiche of beer-swilling flamingos. Critics judge Jay Inslee’s artwork: ‘Kitschy anthropomorphism’ and ‘a sense of humor’ 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Their speechifying and questioning was impertinent, premised on lies, and intended to distract from the truth. Democratic 2020 strategy must be gloves off, abandon all subtlety:"Trump will kill your dog! 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat on the Judiciary panel, said: “You will find little or no editorializing or speechifying by the members. This is all about allowing special counsel Mueller to speak.” Democrats questioning Robert Mueller to focus on obstruction 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s also been a day for some presidents to insert themselves front and center in the fabric of it all, as Donald Trump plans to do Thursday with his speechifying and showmanship. Presidents on July 4: Some chill, some get in your face 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z In Waterloo, he was confronted by reporters asking why he was glad-handing and speechifying in Iowa instead of marching in New York City’s storied Puerto Rican Day Parade. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio takes his low popularity to the national stage 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z A whole week of campaigning, speechifying and gaffe-ing hasn’t changed the lineup appreciably. We fled the country to escape news about Trump. We failed 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z The White House hopefuls speechified, shook hands, hugged, smiled for selfies and signaled to neglected California Democrats — simply by being here — that they and their home state matter very much. California in the spotlight as 2020 Democratic hopefuls flood the state 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z She generally avoids speechifying; there is a bit at the end, but to be fair, someone is making a speech. Review: Ava Du Vernay's ‘When They See Us’ gets to the human heart of the Central Park Five 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z This is the system working, not its breakdown, and that includes all the sanctimonious, annoying, and often hypocritical partisan speechifying from politicians in both parties that inevitably accompanies such a process. Is This the Official Trump Constitutional Crisis? 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z But it’s easy to imagine how the combination of irresponsible speechifying by an elected official, combined with platform-related mishaps, will empower cathedral fire truthers. Misinformation about the Notre Dame fire spread quickly on social media 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z That doesn’t mean the regular session opening Monday in Baton Rouge won’t see a lot of grandstanding and a significant amount of speechifying, particularly if that could bolster a TV ad or a campaign mailer. Analysis: Election-year sessions often high talk, low action 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The slim, animated Texan built his movement around an unorthodox campaign style that infuses confrontation with inspiration and a loose, informal approach on the stump that builds into motivational speechifying. Beto O’Rourke built a movement in Texas — can it carry him to the White House? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z But the Democrats have taken up a lot of time speechifying and not really digging in ways that they could. A Legal Expert on What We Learned from Michael Cohen’s Congressional Testimony 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z As Democratic presidential candidates glad hand and speechify their way through Iowa, New Hampshire and other states early on the primary calendar, climate is already emerging as a bigger concern than in any prior election. Jay Inslee is betting he can ride climate change to the White House 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Its timely messages become muted amid a kaleidoscope of settings, characters, brusque action scenes, blunt speechifying and wan romance. Review Conspiracy theories fail to engage in ‘The Gandhi Murder’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z It is assumed of esteemed white male actors that they will age gracefully into such roles, roaring and speechifying and showing their gravity. How Tarell Alvin McCraney Moved From ‘Moonlight’ to Broadway — and Beyond 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z In a country bitterly divided by the indignities or otherwise of the Trump presidency, how effective such inspirational speechifying can be will be a fascinating thing to consider. Elizabeth Warren is running – here are 10 others who may seek the Democratic nomination 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Writer-director Hedges mostly stays away from speechifying - other than in a very few over-scripted moments - and lets his two talented stars run the show. Review: Julia Roberts is unforgettable in ‘Ben is Back’ 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z He did not have Ronald Reagan's speechifying skills or his feel for retail politics. Media elevate Bush in death, use his passing to denigrate Trump 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Ordinary people say the president’s speechifying about the fate of the planet overlooks the month-to-month struggle of their lives, and they are demanding he listen. Macron Has a Long-Term Vision. But the French Have Urgent Needs. 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Sayoc’s van was plastered with images reflecting the president’s campaign speechifying, including attacks on the press, Democrats and the Washington “swamp.” Pipe bombs, synagogue shooting result of heated rhetoric 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Indeed, inside the hearing room, a portion of the day was spent on speechifying about what might actually change if this man joins the court and shifts its calculus. A Supreme scrum: It’s slam-bam in first round of Kavanaugh hearings 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Interspersed among these and other stories are clips of former New York Police Commissioner William Bratton , speechifying with notable sanctimony, on the subject of integrity. Review | ‘Crime + Punishment’ takes a sobering look at the state of modern urban policing 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z She understands that there’s a lot of speechifying already and it takes us only so far. Opinion | Disgusted With Donald Trump? Do This 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z “CHOOSE truth. Choose Iliad,” entreats the voice-over of a television advertisement after images of President Donald Trump speechifying and footballers feigning injuries flash across the screen. A maverick French telecoms firm attempts Italian conquest 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z And then the speechifying began, often about the horror of politics, of all things, ruining any chance of lawmaking. State Senate Grinds to a Halt as Neither Party Can Make a Majority 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Of course, every election season we hear a great deal of flatulent speechifying about the importance of education. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z We’re not going to solve that conflict in this space, any more than politicians of either party will solve them with posturing or speechifying. Alabama editorial roundup 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z As in earlier books, the book drags a bit whenever a character starts speechifying about revolution and social causes. Exciting trails to follow in 2 new crime-fiction novels 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z After a week of speechifying by ministers, it is easier to identify what the government wants to stay the same than to change. A Question for U.K. Ministers: What Were You After With Brexit? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The show was drenched in smug, as singers speechified about the importance of fairness and equality, while mocking Mr. Trump and by proxy, all those who voted for him. Grammys dumpster fire: Bullying hypocrites overtake the big show 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z For any other president, all this talk about love of country would be the definition of boiler plate speechifying. The kind of night Donald Trump loves best – when he can applaud himself 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Set aside his bluster, his speechifying and huckstering and habit of taking five sentences to express an idea when one would suffice. Perspective | In Jerry Jones v. Roger Goodell, NFL owners should choose sides wisely 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z She said her lucrative speechifying after leaving the Obama administration, which drew attacks from both Trump and her primary rival, Bernie Sanders, had been a mistake. Hillary Clinton, rehashing her loss in new book, emerges to less-than-enthusiastic reviews 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Amid all the swooning and speechifying, “The Promise” does depict individual executions, mass slaughters and a work camp where prisoners’ only choice is between slow or quick death. Review | ‘The Promise’ presents a love triangle amid the atrocities of war 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z And, for all the talk of inclusion in the political speechifying leading up to the Oscars, how inclusive is Hollywood’s own house, anyway? Assailing the White House From Hollywood’s Glass House 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z The persistent theme of gender parity plaguing Hollywood’s directing ranks — including male-dominated bodies such as the DGA — was overshadowed by the more immediate political speechifying, but the issue was not completely ignored. Political speeches color DGA Awards as the season transforms into a forum for dissent 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z That was evident during last week’s rounds of speechifying that traditionally serve as a debut for what the Georgia General Assembly’s annual agenda will revolve around. Georgia editorial roundup 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z But for sheer speechifying goodness, nothing compares to the comments of presenter Robert Klein. Here's Robert Klein's surrealist speech from the New York Film Critics Circle awards 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z When “I, Daniel Blake” regrettably piles it on at the end, it’s Loach growing weary of humanizing details and desperate to shake you up with consequences, didacticism and speechifying. At 80, British master Ken Loach remains a stalwart voice for the downtrodden with social drama 'I, Daniel Blake' 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Her lucrative speechifying made her an unlikely tribune for the working class, once the party’s core constituency. Donald Trump trashed the political playbook. Then he made his own rules 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z He appears a few times over the course of events, mostly in propaganda videos, glacially speechifying in rote soliloquies garnished with insipid little dictums like “freedom is cowardice” and “death is no disgrace.” Review: 'Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare' Gets Lost in Space 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z At least part of his job involved speechifying, hobnobbing with foreign dignitaries and lending his credibility to recruit students and protect the company from regulatory depredations. The Clinton For-Profit College Standard 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Trump’s own “law and order” speechifying often seems to have been ripped directly out of these earlier eras, summoning timeworn racial stereotypes and specters of an acute urban crisis that no longer quite exists. America Is Safer Than It Used to Be. So Why Do We Still Have Calls for ‘Law and Order’? 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Deficit and supply-side spending are simply oblivious to capital’s investment returns will fail to achieve goals for their speechifying plans. Can Clinton or Trump Recapture Robust American Growth? 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Yet for all the grand rhetoric and pontificating and speechifying, two potentially fatal flaws emerged. Democrats Were the Least Worst 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Unlike most politicians, he’s an actual writer — the author of a best-selling memoir! — and he understands certain basics about speechifying most politicians don’t: Keep it short. Obama’s DNC letdown: The president needed to hit it out of the park, but he surprisingly fell short 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z He appealed to the everyman tired of speechifying pate from political elites and hungry for red meat. For Trump, it’s about America’s ego _ and his own 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But it is Louise’s schematic moral objections to the ad in question that dominate “Daisy,” and trigger a lot of high-horse speechifying that, amazingly, doesn’t get her booted off the account. ‘Daisy’ at ACT aims to show the people behind politics’ most famous ad 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Which Reg addresses in a lovely, if completely non sequitur, speech that forces Kelly Ann to do some workplace speechifying of her own. Showtime’s ‘Roadies’ piles on the pain, but where’s the passion for rock ’n’ roll? 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z There should be some vigorous speechifying. “1,000 of the nation’s leading progressive lawyers, judges, law students, policymakers, scholars and activists to discuss critical legal and public policy issues,” the organization noted. Inside the Beltway: Undecided voters a force to be reckoned with in 2016 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z We don’t get anything in the way of an origin or "With great power…" speechifying, because we don’t need it. Spider-Man is amazing in Captain America: Civil War, but has no business being in it 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z But what impact will all of the speechifying, advertising, Facebook sharing, and kibitzing have on the outcome? Did the New York Primary Campaign Change Anything? 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z For Two Thousand Years is crammed with conversations, with arguments, with outright speechifying. ‘I am ashamed to be sad’: the remarkable story of a Jewish student in 1920s Romania 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z There was a time when lawmakers really meant it when they speechified about education being an investment in the nation’s future. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z In others, it’s just his speechifying in the background, and the events unfold as his voice echoing through concrete halls and amplified through college-arena speakers. The Trump Rally Confrontations: A new YouTube genre that reveals the anxiety of the nation 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Jackson’s speechifying, Lincoln-letter carrying Union soldier in “The Hateful Eight” is a performance that will live long beyond DiCaprio’s tussle with that bear. Oscar predictions: What will win and what should win 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z But it collapses into poorly motivated, out-of-nowhere speechifying, accompanied by stock footage of old puzzling phenomena. 'The X-Files' returns with that Mulder and Scully magic (mostly) 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z No, Palin is the vanguard of a new way of right-wing speechifying, a surprisingly avant-garde method of political outreach for people who think of themselves as the protectors of tradition. Palin wasn’t “drunk” and her Trump speech wasn’t “stupid”: She’s playing right into the heart of twisted Republican politics 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z “Butterfly” is a dense compression of jazz, R&B, P-Funk and a dozen variations on MCing, speechifying and recitation, made largely with live instruments. Kendrick Lamar brings Kunta's Groove Sessions to the Wiltern 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z When he allows Donovan to speechify, it’s on behalf of constitutional due process and American fair play. ‘Bridge of Spies’ is an engrossing account of a real-life Cold War case 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Like all serious candidates, Cruz had come to Des Moines to speechify and work the crowd in hopes of eventually getting to the White House. Ellen Page Goes Off-Script 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The maneuvering and speechifying did little to change the reality: Barring unlikely success of the House Republicans’ strategy, the international accord will move ahead. AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Mrs. Clinton will be talking up agriculture and rural culture in Ankeny on Wednesday, do some speechifying at a college in Sioux City and oversee a grass-roots organizing event at a winery in Baldwin. Inside the Beltway: Six factors that make Trump a winner or a loser 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Speaking of Palmer, we see him speechifying, as he does often these days, to a boardroom full of financial heavyweights. 'The Strain' recap: Mexican wrestling, vampire killing in 'The Silver Angel' 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z He’s opening food distribution centers — and asking New Yorkers for their blood type when they sign up? — and speechifying about community, cooperation and grit and such. 'The Strain' recap: Creepy undead kids unleashed in 'By Any Means' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z However, some diplomats see the speechifying as last-ditch attempts to get the best deal possible, Iran Nuclear Deal Down to the Wire 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z That space was filled by damaging reports on her family’s lucrative speechifying and foundation-building. Buckle up for the Clinton roller coaster 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z New York City’s very Democratic mayor is skipping an event that includes a marching band, happy Democrats, a backdrop of skyscrapers and spirited speechifying that taps the wisdom of Franklin Roosevelt and spouse Eleanor. Inside the Beltway: Hillary Clinton’s moment of truth in New York City - or maybe not 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z All people who might be too tired, or too busy, to come out and vote the way Iowans vote: with their feet, in a gym, in a long caucus night of speechifying and waiting around. In 2008, Clinton couldn’t buy Iowans’ love. So she bought them snow shovels. 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z I wasn’t planning to write, again, about Hillary Clinton’s compulsive speechifying. Hillary Clinton’s unseemly speechifying 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Collectively, they saw themselves as a deliberative body; individually, each valued philosophical correctness and speechifying, sometimes at the expense of taking action. This Is What the Framers Said About the Senate’s Power to Offer Advice and Consent 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Paul wasn’t Palinesque, but it’s consistently clear he’s more accustomed to speechifying and holding forth than being questioned by a reporter. Rand Paul’s faux-candor nonsense: Why Katie Couric had him bobbing and weaving 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Christie's penchant for traveling and speechifying suggest he'd make even more use of Air Force One than Obama has. Fading Christie Is Giving Bush Stronger Grip on G.O.P.’s Center 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z But, between its grating heroine, strident speechifying, derivative plot and draggy tone and tempo, it’s like the redheaded stepchild of “Mean Girls” and “Freaky Friday.” A rare zero stars for ‘The DUFF,’ thanks to grating heroine, draggy tone 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Quite a motley crew of angels showed up to join management and employees in lifting a cup and speechifying. If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s also not the place for personal confession, expressions of frustration or speechifying about what you’d do with the company if you were in charge. How Not To Behave At The Office Party 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z I bet in the end the “I Will Not Comply” rally will happen, and it will be full of enough speechifying and arms-brandishing for an NRA convention. ‘I Will Not Comply’ gun-rights rally ironically needs a permit 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z The Berlin Wall had already been the site of much speechifying when President Ronald Reagan appeared there in 1987 — but by that point, something that changed. 9 Essential Berlin Wall Stories 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z He’ll be honored at an event Tuesday evening in the nation’s capital, which includes some grand speechifying and tour of the aforementioned collection. Inside the Beltway: Monica Lewinsky to America: ‘Here we go’ 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The Vice-President’s twilight war with his words is not likely to end soon, in part because, curiously, his speechifying is something of a private triumph in itself. Off Prompter: Joe Biden Explained 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z They write articles, publish white papers and speechify the evils of those onerous conflict policies that marketers enforce. Sleeping With The Enemy 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z In two weeks, world leaders will once again descend upon the city en masse for nonstop speechifying, endless meetings and, yes, hopelessly snarled traffic on the East Side of Manhattan. | Jan Eliasson: Making Time for Sweetbreads, Even Amid a World Crisis 2013-09-09T00:42:15Z Rigell speechifies for a good 15 minutes about how Congress is broken, a noncontroversial topic that plays well in his district, which voted him into a second term last year and also reelected President Obama. At Town Halls, Congress Now Steers Clear of Voters 2013-08-29T21:50:59Z Mr. Landgraf spent money on “Justified,” a Southern gothic inspired by Elmore Leonard that featured a laconic, trigger-happy marshal chasing charismatic, speechifying villains who belong in the television pantheon. The Media Equation: At FX, a Playbook That Gives Its Series Free Rein 2013-02-03T23:51:47Z With the Senate so frequently in a state of inaction these days, it is common for long, lazy quorum calls interrupted by short bursts of activity or speechifying. For Akaka, a Senate Role as No. 1 on the Roll 2012-12-26T04:07:48Z He enjoys a good policy discussion--and I mean discussion, in which he actually responds to things you say or ask rather than speechifying. Note to Obama: Get Down off the Mountaintop 2012-10-11T13:35:24Z The past two weeks of speechifying were a far cry from the Democratic convention of 1924, when it took 103 ballots to settle on a nominee. Lexington: Shindig fatigue 2012-09-06T15:03:14Z Once the formalities were done - the Brazilian section featuring samba and Pele, a last stab at flag-waving from the Mayor of London and the speechifying - all that was needed was some sort of finale. Ceremony review: A long goodbye to the Games 2012-08-13T08:27:10Z Sitting congresspeople of the committee are greeting him with mild speechifying about the depth of the nation's lasting financial crisis. Timothy Geithner testifies before Congress – US politics live 2012-07-25T13:20:30Z Even Peregrinus, when he was speechifying near Olympia in 165AD, about to throw himself on the pyre, was comparing himself to the great tragic heroes of "classical Greece", centuries earlier. The Olympics – ancient and modern 2012-06-22T21:55:22Z A strange kind of semi-recluse, but combining with bookworm habits a passion for speechifying and for using the penny post, was not likely to conciliate London, and he never did. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Luckily, he found a little relief, both corporeally and mentally in nibbling at the remnant of the dessert, which the whole company forgot for wine and speechifying. Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z You hear similar sentiments from Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney, now speechifying at Michigan factories ahead of that state’s Feb. 28 Republican presidential primary. Blue Collar Nostalgia Masks Challenges 2012-02-18T03:14:04Z Five hundred acres in which to congregate and speechify. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-17T03:00:35.863Z "Well, Miss Flower," he said one morning, "the boys finish their speechifying to-morrow, and then they'll be more at liberty to amuse you, instead of leaving it so much to the old stagers." Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z I saw an account of some speechifying at a missionary meeting lately where they begged money because Indian children made images of clay, etc., and cried them about as 'Gods' a penny apiece. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z He proved, however, to be a much more reasonable man than the last sultan, and, after a little speechifying, the tribute was paid and the caravan moved off toward Bihawena. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z People were speechifying, singing, playing guitar, dancing, even roller skating. City Room: A Word to the 'Wise and Honest' on Washington Sq. Park 2011-12-06T13:25:11Z It was now almost dark, and the crowd soon began to ask whether there was to be any more speechifying. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z After a day of wrangling and speechifying, Parliament adopted a resolution endorsing Mr. Hazare’s central demands for shaping legislation to create an independent anticorruption agency empowered to scrutinize public officials and bureaucrats in India. India?s Parliament Agrees to Anna Hazare?s Demands 2011-08-27T19:28:32Z The thing Democrats regret most about Barack Obama is that his performance has fallen short of the inspirational speechifying that was his own catapult from state-legislator obscurity to political rock stardom. In West Coast Debut, Marco Rubio Shows He's Got What GOP Wants Most 2011-08-24T21:33:22Z When at last the scribbling was over; when the proofs had been read and re-read and corrected till the compositors went mad; then the speechifying had to begin. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z For Australian speechifying, the historian Michael Fullilove has helpfully gathered together a collection of the best and most eloquent in Men and Women of Australia: Our Greatest Modern Speeches. Essential reading 2011-08-02T06:42:58Z The grand treat of the evening, at least to an Englishman, was the speechifying. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z And yet on social networks we speechify, we talk and we are saying plenty of things we might regret. We All Write Things We Regret, So What Can We Do About It? 2011-06-27T13:12:11Z "I didn't mean to speechify like this, but I do know what I'm talking about." Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z But there ain't much working done for quite a spell but, instead, a lot of general speechifying and explaining betwixt this one and that one. J. Poindexter, Colored 2011-06-11T02:00:11.257Z But as the dignitaries speechified, biologists were discovering the creosote-bush-studded landscape was crawling with some uninvited guests: desert tortoises. Spot The Tortoise? 2011-06-08T22:00:00Z As all the Members have seen the papers and recorded their opinions, they arrive in Council with a full knowledge of the facts, and but little speechifying takes place. The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India 2011-04-11T02:00:13.067Z The earth was shovelled in and stamped down, and I was glad that no orisons were said and no speechifying took place. Dream Days 2011-02-07T03:00:23.040Z Representative Kevin Brady, a Republican of Texas, called it "mostly speechifying." For Hu, Not as Tough a Day as Some Wanted 2011-01-20T23:13:51Z Before I has been speechifying to him more than a minute I can tell he's getting interested and he begs me for to continue. J. Poindexter, Colored 2011-06-11T02:00:11.257Z She had a baby in her arms, and was pensively listening to her husband who, hot with anger, was speechifying not very far off. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z For all the speechifying about humanitarian aid that attended its passage, the 2000 law allowing agricultural and medical exceptions to sanctions was ultimately the product of economic stress and political pressure. U.S. Approved Business With Blacklisted Nations 2010-12-23T22:31:44Z For hours the speechifying goes on, mixed with music, recitations, songs, and anecdotes. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z One official directly involved, who spoke Monday on the condition of anonymity because the talks were continuing, said that the first day produced little of substance, considerable speechifying, and that both sides “rehearsed well-known positions.“ More Nuclear Talks With Iran Scheduled 2010-12-07T15:15:00Z Voters may like the sound of his small-government speechifying, but they also like their Social Security and Medicare and Pell Grants and nearby jobs generators like Fort Campbell and Fort Knox. The Party Crashers: Behind the New Republican Revival 2010-10-28T09:39:00Z But there, Harry, old fellow, as I said before, I don’t want to quarrel, and I’m quite out of breath now with this long-winded speechifying; only don’t be such a confounded nuisance.” A Little World He started the thing, anyhow, and he ought to have the fun of speechifying to you. The Crimson Sweater I must take leave of you soon; and we can spend the little time that remains to us more pleasantly than in speechifying, or listening to a speech. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation He used to return home late, worn-out, weary, and hoarse with much speechifying and shouting, and ill-tempered into the bargain. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. I can still see his thin white fingers round the broken glass while he spouted and speechified about "our young freedom crowns this day of liberty with flowers." What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself As a rule there was very little speechifying. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections It is easy to talk—not very difficult to speechify—hard to speak; but to "discourse" is a gift rarely bestowed by Heaven on mortal man. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) A girl who can speechify the way you can, might get to be president some day, if the women’s rights folks should win out. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted Yesterday Brougham came with his brother, sister, and daughter-in-law, in the highest spirits and state of excitement, going about Yorkshire, dining and speechifying; he was at Doncaster too. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II Statesmanship was not so much to him as speechifying. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 The young Army Officer is to speechify in Turkish, I, in Arabic, and Ahmed Bey, who is as oleaginous as a Turk could be, will take up, I think, the collection. The Book of Khalid He was equally ready to write before breakfast, or while other people were talking and speechifying all round him in court, or when sitting up all night. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Don't you now recall distinctly how we speechified till hoarse, Trying to convince the people what was just the proper course? Oklahoma Sunshine It is not surprising that they all wanted to talk and speechify. Birdseye Views of Far Lands This, too, calls to mind forcibly the very delectable conversational speechifying that took place at the New Haven Rifle Meeting, among the pious villains who figured most conspicuously. Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors The sympathy of his compatriots is to him worse than the doctor’s medicines, and those who had often heard him speechifying exchanged significant looks when he passed. The Book of Khalid Yet, to hear a good deal of the speechifying and to see a good deal of the action that go forward, one might suppose it was forgotten. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete The Tannese are born talkers, and can and will speechify on all occasions; but most of it means nothing, bears no fruit. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals Well, you have held Conventions, you have speechified and resolved, protested and appealed, declared and petitioned, and now, what next? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I My own son had taken upon himself this new work of public speechifying in direct opposition to his own father! The Fixed Period A certain amount of toasts and speechifying followed, which the ladies sat through with the most exemplary appearance of being amused. Tom Brown at Oxford "After that we had speechifying; and I returned home very full of thankful joy." The Old Helmet, Volume II That whole day was consumed in talking and speechifying, sometimes chanting their replies—the Natives are all inveterate talkers! The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals There was a moderate and endurable amount of speechifying by-and-by, when the monster double-crowned pines had been cut, and the purple grapes, almost as big as pigeons' eggs, had gone round. Vixen, Volume I. What with public speechifying, private eating and drinking, and perpetual simmering in hot rooms, I have made London too hot to hold me and my work together. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Then the speechifying would commence, and last for hours without any satisfactory results. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier For hours there was speechifying and loud talking. The Day of Judgment An immoderate desire of speechifying, and of making laws, had seized the greater number of the deputies: but a state is not to be saved by empty words, and schemes of a constitution. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II We all went into the servants’ hall, where one hundred and forty-five retainers had just done dinner and were drinking the Duke’s health, singing and speechifying with vociferous applause, shouting, and clapping of hands. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) All this stimulated Philip’s curiosity to learn what the speechifying tended to. Deerbrook He would hold them, with drums and full dress speechifying, even if he were organising a secret society and arranging for a rebellion. General John Regan Rebellion which is the sin of witchcraft is more pardonable in His sight than speechifying resignation, listening with complacency to its own self-conquests. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 They could not hear what he was saying, but in the pauses of his speechifying the hoarse murmur of approval grew louder and louder. Flamsted quarries "Seems I'm too late for the speechifying," said the young sailor, avoiding her gaze, and winking at two or three elder boys on the back benches. Shining Ferry Toast, sentiment, and anacreontic song, succeeded each other at speedy intervals; but there was no speechifying—no politics. Rookwood "It took a lot of trouble to make all the little figures, but if they'll only let me off from speechifying, I'll feel it was worth it." Miss Pat at School The sultan had demanded to know what a certain reverend owl was speechifying about to another owl distantly related to him. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 At this feast there was some speechifying—partly humorous and partly touching—and it remains a disputed point to this day whether the touching was more humorous or the humorous more touching. The Big Otter None the less grateful to you, madam, but fuss and speechifying don’t come naturally to a man of my age. Betty Trevor We try and have a good time of it, and leave it to the politicians and skallywags to do the speechifying and bunkum! Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes No wonder she was a success, if she speechified as a bird sings! The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) Occasionally some one invited to speechify or air his opinion of things in general here bluntly expresses his surprise at finding everywhere so much culture, wealth, and refinement. A Truthful Woman in Southern California A very neat way of getting out of further speechifying!" said Verity, as by general consent the concert carried the day; "but you shall open it yourself, Madam Warden, so I warn you! A Popular Schoolgirl "There is to be no speechifying," said one of them. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter We had sat very long at dinner; it was later than we had planned when the speechifying began. The Jamesons They elected the Rector, and his jurisdiction was very great indeed, and much more important than speechifying to his constituents. Practical Essays Sometimes he would stand on a tree stump and "speechify." Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance Of speechifying there was of course much, and compliments abounded. Life of Charles Dickens A great celebration took place, and there was much bouquet handing and speechifying, etc. Fanny Goes to War The two gentlemen alternately speechified the judge and jury for several hours; after which the judge passed sentence on the culprit, and the two lawyers left the court-house. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery All just claims met by this shrewd plan, The speechifying Rights of Man, Plus the Policeman's duty. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 Then, after Jane sat down, I don't believe such a speechifying ever was before as resounded out over the river, even in the time of Old Hickory. The Tinder-Box “This is the most important political movement in the history of the world,” Rosamund was saying, not at all in a speechifying manner, but quite intimately and naturally. The Lion's Share Then we have also Mr. Fullerton, who has been working and speechifying to some purpose for years. A Dream of the North Sea They generally broke up at sundown; but if it was something of unusual interest and urgency, they went on speechifying in the dark, or in the moonlight, and might not adjourn till long after midnight. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before They can't have taken more than an hour to speechify after the declaration of the poll. The Marriage of William Ashe Dry work, this speechifying, especially to an unpractised orator. Twice Told Tales Zapoikin, as many of my readers are aware, possesses a rare talent for impromptu speechifying at weddings, jubilees, and funerals. The Schoolmaster In a twinkling the floodgates of speechifying burst open; the debates touched every aspect of the question. George Washington At political meetings also, where there are hours of formal palaver and speechifying, the old men take their work with them, and improve the time at the cleanly, useful occupation of twisting cinnet. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before Meanwhile, and pending the arrangement of the proceedings, and a fair division of the speechifying, the public in the large room were eyeing, by turns, the empty platform, and the ladies in the Music Gallery. Nicholas Nickleby At a political dinner, everybody is disagreeable, and inclined to speechify—much the same thing, by-the-bye; but at a charity dinner you see people of all sorts, kinds, and descriptions. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Be hanged to these civilians, he thought to himself, they are always for arranging and speechifying. Vanity Fair We don't want no more of this speechifying. The Conflict A man always makes a fool of himself, speechifying: there's no excuse but being on the right side, so that you can ask a blessing on your humming and hawing. Middlemarch She doesn't speechify about these things—she never speechifies to me, at least. The Coryston Family A Novel Dry work, this speechifying; especially to an unpractised orator. A Rill from the Town Pump Of the common parliamentary bore there be two orders; the silent, and the speechifying. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 The life of the forum is a formidable solvent of virtue and vigour; by dint of speechifying, men forget how to act. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 Caleb was a powerful man and knew little of any fear except the fear of hurting others and the fear of having to speechify. Middlemarch You think, you old Schulze, it is for your sake that we sing, for your sake that we speechify; can't you comprehend that we do so for our own sakes? Lucky Pehr The action moves rapidly, there is no speechifying, and the parts are coherent. Among My Books First Series To which the pedlar-poet appended some moralizings, exclaiming, 'Really this speechifying is a sore humbug, and the sooner it is out of fashion the better.' The Life of John Clare He stopped at every corner to speechify, to talk of his plans. Cæsar or Nothing There's so much in a man's looking dignified, and all that, when he's speechifying. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography When I was speechifying to you in St. Ronan's office you thought I had come back here filled with airs and lofty notions. All-Wool Morrison No, he always wants to be speechifying wherever he goes.—Ah, Three Dramas He speechified just in the way you used to say he did at Christ Church to all the ladies in rotation. The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 Here their conversation ceased; and Redclyffe listened to a long train of speechifying, in the course of which everybody, almost, was toasted; everybody present, at all events, and many absent. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance "He tells me, he does not mind speechifying, but he will not have coercion." The Home and the World This will put an end to all speechifying on holidays. A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II A Legitimist member muttered in a low voice to his neighbor, "One might imagine he was a bailiff speechifying at a wedding." The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness Such things are just speechifying, and banal at that. Peaceless Europe During the course of their night's debauch there was a great deal of speechifying, and the epithets fanatical, humbug, etc., were used ad infinitum. From Wealth to Poverty About 3 P.M. the Bedouins, armed as usual with spear and shield, began to gather round the hut, and—nothing in this country can be done without that terrible "palaver!"—the speechifying presently commenced. First Footsteps in East Africa On the highest ground in the field a rather slenderly put up platform was erected, while farther back and lower down a large tent was pitched for the banquet which was to follow the speechifying. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland A man in a blouse, with his hat on his head, mounted on a kerbstone, was speechifying and glorifying the coup d'état. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness Sir D— behaved handsomely, came forward, and speechified for us. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 They wanted me to go and speechify at Keighley in the middle of October, but I could not get permission from the authorities. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 At the first word he does not understand, he will run away, he will prance about the room, and leave me to speechify by myself. Emile Papa regards a speechifying woman as a thing of horror,—I have known him look askance at a Primrose Dame. The Beetle When some of our speechifying people talked to you about our institutions through their noses, you would think that the institutions themselves must be bad. He Knew He Was Right He was fond of lecturing and speechifying generally; and he liked the society of young people, young men of an intelligent and progressive type. The Upton Letters "What were you speechifying about when I turned up?" The Fortunate Youth The band plays all the time, an' folks sing an' speechify, an' ever'body laughs an' has a good time. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Would it be possible to attach a more evil significance to a man's name than that which Mutimer bears, and will continue to bear, among certain sections of writing and speechifying vermin? Demos I suppose you realize the kind of speechifying that would be expected of you? Denzil Quarrier But deprive the Socialists of the possibility of expressing themselves freely in word and print, and their grievances, which now found vent in harmless speechifying, would assume the form of practical violence. The Malady of the Century And in the autumn he agreed to go to America to speechify and to get money for the lesser battles. The Untilled Field How she wished she could hear some of the speechifying! Australia Felix I had a wretched time yesterday,—speechifying and trying to rouse up clodhoppers to the interests of their country,—and all the time my darling at home was alone, and breaking her heart about me! Thelma "Not perhaps in speechifying," said Norman, smiling; "but in steadiness of aim, in patience, in callousness, in seeing one side of the question at once." The Daisy chain, or Aspirations Mr. Rede, the resident Commissioner, arrives, and endeavours to pacify the people by speechifying, but it will not do. The Eureka Stockade On Thursday I drove by the Raven, when he was speechifying to the people, and I noticed the selfsame action. East Lynne A new local regiment made a better "story" in the press; and new and superfluous regiments meant new and superfluous colonels, mostly of the speechifying kind. Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray He has taken it into his head to play the lawyer, prince, and he practices speechifying, and is always repeating his eloquent pleadings to his children. The Idiot Such a speech, as that, was turning his talents to good account, and I am glad to hear it is not all speechifying.' Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife "You are talking and speechifying away, but tell me, would you kill the old woman yourself?" Crime and Punishment Somebody’s got to stop behind and do the patriotic speechifying. All Roads Lead to Calvary The speechifying and fuss on these occasions generally wastes plenty of time, and the public reception is not thought likely to meet the new squire much before the end of the month. Armadale Fortin was again at the door, speechifying in the midst of a group with indefatigable volubility. Other People's Money And there he found them holding their great caucus, which they hold every year in the North; and all their stump-orators were speechifying; and for a tribune, the speaker stood on an old sheep’s skull. The Water-Babies |
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