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- noun Plural form of
speechifier .
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Examples
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Of course, it helps when the speechifiers include two of my favorite performers, Simon Russell Beale (as the Mephistophelean arms dealer, Andrew Undershaft) and Clare Higgins (as his imperturbably imperious wife) at the top of their forms.
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Of course, it helps when the speechifiers include two of my favorite performers, Simon Russell Beale (as the Mephistophelean arms dealer, Andrew Undershaft) and Clare Higgins (as his imperturbably imperious wife) at the top of their forms.
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If Nobel Peace prizes are being awarded to people who are simply giving the world hope, surely the judges could have found any number of worthy speechifiers.
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Rather than simplify as news headlines, sound bites, and political speechifiers do, our responsibility is to pose difficult questions and not take sides.
Brown, Rosellen. 2009
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If Nobel Peace prizes are being awarded to people who are simply giving the world hope, surely the judges could have found any number of worthy speechifiers.
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(I remember screaming at Kerry on my television "JUST SAY IT!!!!" as he rambled on interminably knowing we passed up on better speechifiers.)
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I would have a lot more respect for these anti - “torture” speeches if the speechifiers would (1) spell out what they consider torture and (2) show that they have considered the consequences of announcing that terrorists cannot be interrogated with any methods they consider torture.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Senator Graham on Torture and the Geneva Convention: 2005
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I would have a lot more respect for these anti-“torture” speeches if the speechifiers would (1) spell out what they consider torture and (2) show that they have considered the consequences of announcing that terrorists cannot be interrogated with any methods they consider torture.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Senator Graham on Torture and the Geneva Convention: 2005
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But hand in the guns and speechifiers, and make ready for
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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Chopin, who was not very intellectual, felt ill at ease amongst all these literary men, these reformers, arguers and speechifiers.
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