| The historical background of such orations dates back to the laudation orations of classical times. |
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| I want to insist, however, that in the case of his funeral orations, Derrida's concern for presence and otherness is not merely theoretical. |
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| Many leaders spoke at the conference, and Wright summarizes a number of their orations. |
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| For it is not necessarily self-evident that epistles and orations function in the same way. |
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| On their celebrated departure many of the most eloquent speechifiers in the land delivered impassioned orations. |
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| But this contemporary silence stems from more than just humility in the face of the great orations of the past. |
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| The orations that accompany the awarding of an honorary degree are rarely sophisticated studies in personality. |
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| It would be easy to dismiss these frightful orations as the rantings of frustrated clergymen. |
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| These imaginary inaugural orations are, of course, complete fiction. |
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| The priest at the altar, for instance, used the sacramentary, a book containing the orations and prefaces that vary from feast to feast. |
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| To mark the anniversary, we asked three former speech writers to tell us their favorite political orations. |
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| If he performs them, all well and good, but he must be a man of faith, who does not reduce life to orations. |
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| Considered today as naive art works, these devout objects were at that time real hand-made orations, ways of prolonging prayers. |
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| These characters spend their time acting as pseudo-detectives on their cases and then engaging in spectacular courtroom orations. |
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| One was soaked by one's sweat inside despite the whirring of the ventilators which rivaled the liturgical chant and the funeral orations. |
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| Set in a future-world London, a.d.3700, the novel is a fragmented fictive archive of orations, dialogues, dream-visions, and the working papers of its protagonist. |
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| Instead of persisting with mindless fashion parades exhibiting Western attires, there were orations, dances, dramas that showcased the rich cultural heritage of our country. |
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| Leaders improvised eloquent orations referring to the usual civic virtues. |
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| They've done mock interviews, funeral orations, series of imagined letters from the famous person to a grandchild, or from an invented friend to the famous person. |
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| Though it's easy to ridicule the performance element of these orations, they do act as a focus for the party and from time to time they find a kind of immortality. |
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| Here, before an estimated quarter million civil rights supporters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, King offered one of the most powerful orations in American history. |
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| The Native people believed the promises either explicitly mentioned in the treaty or offered during the eloquent and persuasive orations of the treaty commissioners. |
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| Poems, advertising slogans, offhand observations, deathbed declarations, political orations, jokes, curses — all are seeking to find permanent lodgment in your brain. |
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| One of her proudest finds is a volume of funeral orations for Duke August of Saxony and his wife, dating from 1588, complete with its original vellum binding and clasp, which she bought for a mere €845 on eBay last December. |
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| A lawyer by training, du Vair occupied high offices of state under Henry IV, having made his reputation with his eloquent and cogently argued orations. |
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| Besides this, Pliny the Younger's Panegyricus and Dio of Prusa's orations are the best surviving contemporary sources. |
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| Each failed test of components or of complete systems is met with gleeful funeral orations by BMD opponents, and every success is greeted by proponents as proof that the shield can and will work. |
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| Orations are occasionally misnumbered, and there are many typographical mistakes. |
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| This is from one of the great Theological Orations which he preached while there, speeches which have become known as bastions of Trinitarian and Christological orthodoxy. |
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| His two main translations are the Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, two chapters of Movses Khorenatsi's History of Armenia and sections of Nerses of Lambron's Orations. |
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