allocution

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“And I can’t help but think, as I listen to your allocutions, that if all that energy and passion was devoted to changing the laws, perhaps real change would have occurred by today.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2015

Mr. Kerik characterized the language of his allocutions in the guilty pleas as the byproduct of extensive negotiations between his lawyers and prosecutors, and not a reflection of his plain understanding of what had happened.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2012

To Hochhuth, Pius was a "cold skeptic," and "an inverted mystic" whose 22 volumes of learned encyclicals and allocutions are dismissed as "trivialities."

From Time Magazine Archive

Pius was one of Catholicism's great teachers, whose irrepressible flow of decisive allocutions ranged learnedly from astronomy to midwifery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of yore, when he was a great pedestrian and no enemy to good claret, he may have pointed with these minute-guns his allocutions to the bench.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis