Sentence examples for orator as a from inspiring English sources

A political historian sees the great orator as a pioneering advocate of enduring progressive ideas.

He has been subjected to blistering attacks from Mr. Cruz, a far more compelling orator, as a "conciliator" who will not go to the mat for limited government.

But Cicero in his writings followed the Elder Cato's famous definition of the orator as "a man of good character trained to eloquence" (vir bonus dicendi peritus).

A life-long socialist and activist, Ethel was a street-corner orator as a 14 year old and an active member of the Young Peoples Socialist League, the Socialist Party and the Workmen's Circle.

Moreover, Turner did not benefit from reading a book on rhetoric, unlike Frederick Douglass, who read a copy of Columbian Orator as a way to understand rhetoric.

He's an orator as much as a bike rider, a born rhetorician, at his best when selling the planet on huge flamboyant whoppers of his own devising.

Pavia, for its part, developed a largely secular court culture; Paul the Deacon, who was a poet and an orator as well as a historian, was partially trained there, and later so was Liutprand of Cremona (died c. 972), whose Antapodosis is a florid but highly literate satire of the kings of the first half of the 10th century.

Douglass was a runaway slave, prominent abolitionist, and feminist orator, as well as a poetic, political advocate of human rights, equality, and liberation for all peoples.

The Oneida chief Peter Agwrongdougwas, or "Good Peter," whom John Trumbull described as a "Great Orator as well as warrior, "acted as one of the Six Nations' spokensmen during their 1792 visit to Philadelphia, where he was an eloquent advocate for his people's land rights.

Christopher Walken, who plays the orator Cato as a prissy moralist, commits suicide with a sword and no bathwater at all, which in itself is fascinating to watch.

82 BCE c. 47 BCE Gaius Licinius Calvus, (born 82 bc died c. 47 bc), Roman poet and orator who, as a poet, followed his friend Catullus in style and choice of subjects.