Oration
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They had sunk into a state of motionlessness while K. gave his
oration
, and it had not been possible to raise them from this passivity even when the judge was being humiliated.
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Aristotle focused on oration, though, and he described three types of persuasive speech.
The delivery of Antony's funeral
oration
by Charlton Heston is brilliant, powerful, well-paced, the dramatic high point of the movie.
The name De Mille evokes big sets, big costumes and bigger action and Crusades was his follow up to his earlier take on Christian
oration
from the scandalous - in a good way - Sign of the cross.
To the disappointment of many, Hu ended up giving a lackluster
oration
that, instead of extolling political reform, re-emphasized the dreary notion of the Three Represents--the banal theory advanced by former Party chief Jiang Zemin, which allowed businessmen to be included in the Party.
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