Sentence examples for master of debate from inspiring English sources
Ar-Rāzī was not only a persuasive preacher but also a master of debate.
Both council and Riksdag were identified with the king's policies, not least because of Gustav's brilliant gift for expounding them: his speeches reveal him as a master of debate and an orator of extraordinary eloquence and force.
In the early 50s, Winston Churchill, a master of debate, apparently did a secret experiment with televised broadcasts but didn't enjoy the experience, so he didn't do any real ones.
A self-assurance redeemed from arrogance only by a kind of boyish charm made Churchill from the first a notable House of Commons figure, but a speech defect, which he never wholly lost, combined with a certain psychological inhibition to prevent him from immediately becoming a master of debate.
Ed Miliband channelled Ronald Reagan, a master of debate, when he said: "There you go again".
The President is a master of debate and lucky to have the opponents that he has.
The week in euphemisms began on Sunday with Lord Mandelson, the acknowledged master of reframing a political debate to his own advantage.
And yet the art of debate involves mastering skills of obvious intrinsic value: the confidence to speak in public, and make sense; the construction of a logical argument; the ability to read an audience's reactions; and, perhaps most importantly, the willingness to hear others' arguments, and to respond to them.
"Some here are drinking extra hard tonight after last night's presidential debate," Alec Baldwin, the master of ceremonies, said in his opening remarks.
In the scholarly world of old master paintings, debates about authenticity are common and constitute a kind of blood sport.
