Compared with other medical problems, dry mouth, or xerostomia, may be little more than an annoyance: eating is a little less pleasant and speech a little more difficult.
Unless you're a professional entertainer, your audience probably expects a pleasant, dignified speech, rather than a raunchy, joke-filled tirade, so give it what it wants.
In order to make the speech pleasant and dignified and in order to avoid banality the orator must make moderate use of non-familiar elements.
But in a pleasant surprise, Pelosi's speech will repeatedly refer to another area where this will be crucial: climate change.
And not all that speech is pleasant, either: burning crosses, desecrating the American flag, parade permits for Nazis, lying about military honors and determining protected opinion.
The speaker should use correct grammar and easy to understand language, making it pleasant to listen to the speech and follow what it's about.
He has a pleasant manner, but his speeches are full of pauses and catchphrases — usually echoes of things that President Bush and Condoleezza Rice have already said.
I realised the "Hath not a Jew eyes" speech isn't a pleasant manifesto for living together.
"Free" is a successful business speech between two covers, pleasant, upbeat and full of anecdotes and bullet points.
The first war protest on campus, the October 15 Moratorium, was a mild affair in which many students and faculty passed a pleasant night and afternoon listening to speeches.
Since remote things are admirable (thaumaston) and the admirable is pleasant, Aristotle says, one should make the speech admirable and pleasant by the use of such unfamiliar words.
