How to Use oratorical in a Sentence

oratorical

adjective

• Her voice is closer to the dry tones of the college textbook than to Clark’s deeply personal oratorical flights.
  — James Romm, WSJ, 10 June 2018
• The oratorical challenges that life has thrown at him over the last four years—the 2004 convention, the race speech, Berlin—have given chance after chance to flop, but the man seems incapable of doing so.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• Part of the mission is to teach the history of Texas, said Betsy Zachry, chairwoman of the oratorical contest committee.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 20 Feb. 2020
• His oratorical skills have been refined over years of sermons at Ebenezer.
  — Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2022
• His prose has an oratorical flair, like a vinous soliloquy summoning us to enjoy the pleasures of the grape.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
• In her Florida years, Safford’s youth on an Illinois farm proved as useful as her oratorical skills.
  — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2020
• His lively oratorical skills were often on display at the end of each weekly council meeting.
  — al, 30 Oct. 2021
• As a minister in training, King was honing his oratorical skills.
  — Meghan E. Irons, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• Journalists took notice of the leveling up of Mr. Bush’s oratorical skills.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Historians won’t confuse the oratorical skills of President Trump with those of Ronald Reagan.
  — WSJ, 19 July 2018
• Williamson’s unique oratorical style is a product of her eclectic biography.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 12 Aug. 2019
• Still, his oratorical skills, unflagging enthusiasm and abiding sense of faith made him for many an irresistible figure.
  — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2021
• The Nobel Peace Prize winner was remembered for his masterful oratorical skills.
  — Essence, 16 Jan. 2023
• Vice presidents are rarely celebrated for their oratorical style, or for anything else.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
• Khan fired up the partisan audience (and some television viewers) by placing an oratorical bull’s-eye on then-candidate Donald Trump’s chest.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Vocal lines are set in twisting, mock-oratorical phrases as the orchestra bustles with Minimalist-like strings of racing sixteenth notes and pummeling chords.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2017
• On the page, anyway, the ideological and stylistic chasms that separate them start to dissolve in a sea of overlapping oratorical devices, similar phrases and at times identical word choice.
  — Michael Barbaro, New York Times, 9 June 2016
• Both are good, workmanlike interpretations that reflect the company’s deep devotion to the text, rather than to oratorical fireworks.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
• His oratorical style and persuasive arguments vaulted him to fame.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Dec. 2019
• Instead of oratorical tricks, Biden should sketch out in clear fashion the strategic implications for America if Putin eventually were to succeed in his drive to swallow large chunks of Ukrainian territory.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Feb. 2023
• Visually, and in their oratorical skills, both men invoked the passion and unifying power of civil rights-era leaders while speaking to the continued inequity and political stalemates of the 21st century.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• These sermons had only a few hundred more words than those from within the evangelical tradition, a detail that suggests oratorical style or musical interludes might be contributing to their length.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2021
• That’s a dryly academic way of putting something that Willie, with his enviable oratorical powers, transforms into the stuff of excoriating comedy and high drama.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• More than any major candidate in the race, his oratorical style is conversational with few obvious flourishes.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 11 June 2019
• Biden's remarks also offer a reminder of his yearslong history of verbal misfires and general lack of oratorical discipline, which are blamed in part for damaging his previous runs for the presidency.
  — Author: Matt Viser, Sean Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2019
• That great oratorical, musical compositional power of poetry that so many great Gaelic artists have?
  — Steven Gaydos, Variety, 2 Dec. 2022
• As an oratorical afterthought in distinguishing absurdism from fascism, Bill delivers a Sieg Heil salute.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
• Toasts are a traditionally Black form of oratorical narrative poetry, making this lyric-lift extra egregious.
  — Vulture, 5 Aug. 2022
• The story, and Sessions’s decision the next day to recuse himself from a law-enforcement investigation into Russian election meddling, quickly detracted from Trump’s oratorical good showing.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2018
• Mr. Huston’s performance, however competent, is no match compared with Heston’s heaving, oratorical gravitas, which gave even casual remarks the ring of Scripture declaimed from a mountaintop.
  — Stephen Holden, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2016

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