soap-box

And after the guests were gone, I learned how he had met him, passing down a street at night and stopping to listen to a man on a soap-box who was addressing a crowd of workingmen.

Chapter 2: Challenges 2010

But he had a certain clear way of stating the abstruse in simple language, was a born expositor and teacher, and was not above the soap-box as a means of interpreting economics to the workingmen.

Chapter 2: Challenges 2010

Henrykwdk provoked a response by calling it a Flame, and GE is guilty of not only being long-winded, but could probably stand a slight attitude adjustment and knocked of his soap-box.

So there. 2010

This is the kind of refined insight of which I — with my “low soap-box oratory” and state college education — am incapable, as Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal pronounced.

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

He/She needed a soap-box, and The Hollywood Reporter was happily there when they needed it.

Adam Wright: Non-Anonymous TV Critic Trashes Anonymous Executive (and Publication) Adam Wright 2012

I try to avoid the soap-box image, though it's hard.

Interview With Earl J. Wilcox 2010

"A novel is meant to entertain," mainstream publishers claimed, "not to be a soap-box."

Talia Carner - An interview with author 2010

Before very long, out of the glare of public office, Arlen's actions and his reasons for them will become more and more apparent; and I will be off of my boring soap-box explanation that hopefully, because of the luck of parenting, surroundings, and opportunity, we learn right from wrong.

SaraKay Smullens: Leaving the Party: The Journey of Arlen Specter 2010

Neither does she seem to have any idea of how that low soap-box oratory — embracing one kind of American as the real kind, those builders in the towns and cities across America — rings in the ear today.

What Sarah Palin Doesn't Know Dorothy Rabinowitz 2010

Next to the more traditional leadership hustings and inevitable TV debates, why not get candidates out, in every part of the country – not just London – to do high-street walkabouts and town centre soap-box sessions?

Labour leadership battle gives time to create future agenda Chuka Umunna 2010