| For the second night in a row, there is little speechifying and much music. |
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| You know, after a setback, most presidents use the bully pulpit to go speechifying. |
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| Hey, I know it's Friday, and all anybody wants to do is get together with friends at the Sizzler, so I'll knock off the speechifying. |
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| The story suffocates under endless speechifying and analysis in which each point is flogged to death. |
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| Thomas' talent for speechifying at news conferences dates to her career as a reporter. |
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| We have become so accustomed to speechifying and blathering that we hardly notice anymore. |
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| Over the course of the campaign, though, her speechifying grew sharper, more forceful. |
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| You can, says Mark French of Leading Authorities, a top speaking agency, make a seven-figure income from speechifying alone. |
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| It was powerful, compelling, emotional, and in sharp contrast to the prepackaged speechifying we are so accustomed to hearing from politicians. |
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| Spencer Tracy as the Clarence Darrow character and Fredric March as the demagogue based on William Jennings Bryan have a field day in their speechifying and harangues. |
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| Four days of gavel-to-gavel convention watching have reminded me, a professional speaker, of the difference between bad, mediocre, good, and great speechifying. |
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| The Progressive Democrats gathered in Limerick last night for 36 hours of low-grade scheming, non-stop speechifying and back-slapping, commonly called the national conference. |
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| No speechifying, no debates, no scolding of American provincialism, just a welcome view of what the rest of the world is reading. |
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| He will surely continue speechifying from the backbenches, as he did in the previous parliament, on almost every topic under the sun. |
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| This year the background noise is full of speechifying about America in the crowded race to become the Republican presidential nominee. |
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| Obviously topical, the dialogue yields at times to the temptations of speechifying, but it is a pitfall meliorated by strong acting and direction. |
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| It is full of moral speechifying and erudite detail and has a convoluted plot replete with melodramatic deaths and wonderful recoveries and coincidences. |
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| But there was no tub-thumping, finger-wagging or speechifying, no feeling of electricity or sense that this was an important opportunity, theirs for the taking. |
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| O'Rowe's adaptation strips the play down to its essentials and presents a spare and tight historical drama shorn of any excess speechifying and wandering. |
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| Then he puts muscles on his vocal cords by forcing him to declaim speeches over the roar of the ocean. Cicero returns to Rome a lean, mean speechifying machine. |
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| It was a stomping, attention-grabbing, tub-thumping, speechifying Port full not just of violets and liquorice and prunes, but also of grainy texture and vitality. |
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| He has been speechifying for a few minutes already, theoretically about the motion at hand, but I have not heard him say one word about the harmonization of taxes. |
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| Seeing » is worth more than speechifying, and I therefore suggest you watch my short films yourself in order to form an opinion on my work as a director. |
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| Then the presidient of the Writers' club, with more roses and one of his books and more speechifying. Never before was I so bewelcomed. |
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