That was when Brendan Barber, the TUC general secretary, made a speech critiquing the cuts agenda that genuinely shaped public debate.
By Thursday, it was clear that his broadside -- combined with bizarre post-speech TV appearances in which he told one interviewer he wished he could challenge him to a duel -- had overshadowed Vice President Cheney's more sober speech critiquing Kerry on the same themes.
For about ten minutes every night, he delivered an improvised performance that was part motivational speech, part critique of the fashion industry, and part off-the-cuff observations about water bottles and "The Hunger Games".
Projects: Argumentative Essay and Campaign Speech Students critique campaign ads to analyze how the candidates this year are attempting to appeal to voters, then focus on one campaign strategy to write an essay answering the question, "Which candidate is running the better campaign?" They then write campaign speeches for the candidate they have researched.
That is to say that only in such an environment would the free speech of critique and analysis be effectively quashed, that hearings and debate would be all but completely shunted.
Warren has not said whether she plans to run, but she has made moves to appear presidential, such as shoring up her foreign policy credentials in a speech last week critiquing Trump's handling of international affairs.
The meetings lasted for several hours in the park, as crowds listened to rabble-rousing speeches and critiques of capitalism.
PAGE A14 OBAMA CAREFULLY SHIFTS FOCUS Senator Barack Obama has begun to tailor his stump speeches toward critiques of Senator John McCain, which is a curious pirouette.
When Mr. Gore's speeches were critiqued as disingenuous ("What is at stake is more important than who wins the presidency"), aides scheduled him for television interviews that helped him appear more earnest ("I want to win. I make no bones about it").
In another step forward, professors say, increasingly sophisticated software programs analyze and critique speech.
But in centering her announcement speech on a critique of President Obama's economic record, and stating baldly that he can be beaten, she was signalling that she intends to be more than that.
