speechmaker
Example Sentences
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She’s a reasonably good speechmaker, but she’s no Obama — by which I mean Michelle Obama, whose impassioned appeal dominated the first night’s proceedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2020
Hoffa, by contrast is different—he is the opposite of silent—not only is he a literal speechmaker at the rostrum, he’s a running-off-at-the-mouth talker in private, in one-on-ones and “business” meetings.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
In Virginia’s House of Burgesses, Jefferson gravitated to the radical Whig faction led by Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee, but distinguished himself as a brilliant political writer rather than speechmaker.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
It’s as if he can be a sage on deadline, whereas, left more space in which to lose himself, he sounds like a professional speechmaker in a hurry.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2015
"I think, myself, that you're rather unfortunate as a speechmaker," she returned, dryly.
From All-Wool Morrison by Holman Day
