speechify
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While political theater, as a genre, has a tendency to speechify about sociopolitical issues from the safety of the stage, Rau at least gets up close to his subjects.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
That’s less the case in the equally unproductive covid-era, where the co-hosts, broadcasting from their homes, are now given minute-long soapboxes to speechify on the issue du jour.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021
Like all serious candidates, Cruz had come to Des Moines to speechify and work the crowd in hopes of eventually getting to the White House.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2015
Who outside of Aaron Sorkin’s world stops in the middle of their office full of people who work for a union to speechify about the importance of unions?
From Time ● Sep. 27, 2012
We soon learned that meant he was about to speechify us.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
Pöysti’s inquisitive gaze and faint smile tell us more about Ansa’s strong-willed persona than any speechified backstory could.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
In 2006, they steered McCain to attend a dinner with the oligarch at a chalet near Davos, where Deripaska speechified for the 40 or so guests.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2016
There was a time when lawmakers really meant it when they speechified about education being an investment in the nation’s future.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2016
But as the dignitaries speechified, biologists were discovering the creosote-bush-studded landscape was crawling with some uninvited guests: desert tortoises.
From Forbes ● Jun. 8, 2011
Sir D— behaved handsomely, came forward, and speechified for us.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney
That’s actually not a lot of speechifying if you look at it proportionally.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
The characters are not afflicted with speechifying; silences allow the viewer to enter into the spaces between them, and to let their experience echo with one’s own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2025
After his Woodland Park appearance, plus a downtown parade and reception at Volunteer Park, his major speechifying ended at the UW.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
In lieu of speechifying and ribbons, and with sponsors ranging from Google to Hulu, Ms. Davis’s team of researchers began producing receipts.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
There is a strong speechifying tendency in corrections.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
