Examples of oratory

• Subsequently, he also demonstrated his powers of oratory.

• Elections ended and rhetoric became dominated by panegyric and display oratory, rather than a means of competing with aristocratic rivals.

• The preoccupations of this administrative elite prove remarkably similar to the topics of deliberative oratory : the competing claims of prudence, honour, and necessity.

• Its aim, amoral and expedient, is to ensure that oratory should persuade.

• The expectation that oratory was the province of the politician has a long, some would say obvious, pedigree.

• Indeed, political oratory was often itself marketed as a form of literary endeavor and entertainment in the nineteenth century.

• The promotional literature also included numerous letters, verse, and oratory.

• A man skilled in oratory was powerful, effective in imposing his will in society at large.