oration

Tempering democratic rhetoric with aristocratic restraint, he rises above the divisions of debate to deliver the funeral oration when Athens buries its dead sons in the war’s first winter.

“All I need do is bring my notes from orations class, some paper, and my new fountain pen.”

Previous Lincoln scholars have treated the Lyceum Speech more as an outburst than an oration, at best the overwrought declamation of a gifted tyro.

Members of the audience have been cast as performers and the actors at times became the audience, trapped with repeating dramatic orations while watching us play.

Students heard dueling orations that denounced the Nixon administration and Students for a Democratic Society.