No part of the orator's activity will lack the tincture of urbanitas, metropolitan influence.From theCambridge English Corpus
As anoratorhe was noisy and pertinacous, if also predictable.From theCambridge English Corpus
Though anorator, he is painfully shy and inarticulate.From theCambridge English Corpus
Conservative orators often drew attention to the fact that their speeches would omit inappropriate denunciations of the conquest.From theCambridge English Corpus
Neither speaker threatened at the time to topple whoever is the acknowledgedoratorof his party.From theCambridge English Corpus
The great sin of theorator, as for the architect, is to be guilty of improprium, impropriety (viii.2.3-4).From theCambridge English Corpus
That theoratorrequired such intensive training only emphasised how difficult and yet how valued was this task.From theCambridge English Corpus
Singers' and orators' voices were trained to do the "considerable mechanical work" required.From theCambridge English Corpus
Xenophon and some orators describe in considerable detail the roles assumed by an entrepreneur as owner and manager of a household enterprise.From theCambridge English Corpus
This transgressive femaleoratorwas mirrored by her literary counterpart.From theCambridge English Corpus
Yet the situation oforatorand musical performer is surely different too.From theCambridge English Corpus
The speeches of the four parliamentary orators cited are, in and of themselves, of little weight.From theCambridge English Corpus
The worst thing anoratorcould do was to sound only rehearsed or ' memorized'; to be caught speaking entirely by rote was to invite mockery and condemnation.From theCambridge English Corpus
Cicero held that a well-stocked memory was the most necessary equipment for anorator.From theCambridge English Corpus
Sankoh was a skilledoratorand his populist, anti-elitist message attracted some who were desperate for a change in government.From theCambridge English Corpus
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