speechifications

Now he equivocates and avoids, much like the politicians he's bemoaned in the past, even while he himself hems and haws -- and we count all the "uhs," "ums" and "ems" in his once flawless speechifications.

Reese Schonfeld: Why Should Anyone Vote for Either of These Two Guys? 2008

Maybe you don't remember the 24/7 news coverage, the marches, the protests, the speechifications by the good right revs?

The accuser in the Duke rape case is publishing a memoir. Ann Althouse 2008

Maybe you don't remember the 24/7 news coverage, the marches, the protests, the speechifications by the good right revs?

The accuser in the Duke rape case is publishing a memoir. Ann Althouse 2008

Around one of the antique columns of this basilica -- which once beheld the splendors and crimes of the Caesars 'palace -- a staging is erected, from which little maidens are reciting, with every kind of pretty gesticulation, sermons, dialogues, and speechifications, in explanation of the _Presepio_ opposite.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various