The word 'speechifying' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in a humorous or ironic way to refer to someone who talks in a long, boring, or pompous manner. For example, "My professor spent an hour speechifying about Milton's Paradise Lost".
Steven Spielberg has tackled the subject of slavery before Lincoln, with Amistad in 1997, where the high drama of a revolt on board ship was dissipated by speechifying, and the film ended up as a sort of hymn to American justice.
Add a hefty dose of conservative politics and it is no surprise that clouds of nostalgia hung around today's first annual Roast and Ride a barbecue- and Harley-themed patriotic festival organised by Iowa's freshman senator, Joni Ernst, as a salute to military veterans and speechifying contest for 2016 presidential hopefuls.
This problem will persist even if no vast scandals are unearthed by further digging into the Clinton Foundation, or indeed into the more than $100m that the former first couple are estimated to have earned from speechifying.
By the standards of speechifying Chinese soldiers, General Liang was remarkably affable, praising a "co-operative partnership" with America.Yet the shifts in tone from the blunt to the bland and in posture from finger-pointing to backslapping have not been matched by progress toward solving any of the two countries' underlying disputes in the region.
He will surely continue speechifying from the backbenches, as he did in the previous parliament, on almost every topic under the sun.
Even in private business, Mr Assad's close kin and friends, many from his Alawite sect that makes up a bare tenth of Syria's population, have elbowed themselves into dominance.And there are signs that the president, despite speechifying over the glories of the Baath, will ignore the party if necessary.
This year the background noise is full of speechifying about America in the crowded race to become the Republican presidential nominee.
Was not the same sentiment being expressed by a different bunch of social-security ministers before the last reshuffle?A summer of speechifying on these lines is not going to make much impression on voters.
Both would like to tap into voter anxieties by speechifying against bail-outs and central-bank adventurism.
One reason such audiences of foreign diplomats and functionaries tend to be a little bored or abstracted at these gatherings, though, is that much of what speechifying national leaders say isn't actually addressed to them.
You can, says Mark French of Leading Authorities, a top speaking agency, make a seven-figure income from speechifying alone.Given this strong motivation to succeed, it is astonishing how bad most business books are.
