orating

In lieu of a bronze sculptures of men on horseback, or long-forgotten patriots standing on a pedestal, hand over heart, orating through the ages, Oldenburg filled our civic spaces with nostalgia-soaked objects inflated to absurdist proportions.

He is always explaining to Bran that she doesn’t understand stuff, assigning her homework and orating on the topic of her limitations.

A week and a half after Tom recorded himself orating, he got a voice mail saying he was a winner.

It appeared in newspapers across the country, sometimes illustrated with drawings possibly meant to convey the outlandishness of the prediction: a female politician orating in Congress, for example.

In our mind’s eye, we have a vision of an exhausting marathon in which a brave senator has the gumption to stand up and keep orating until his or her colleagues see the point.