Sentence examples for speechifying from inspiring English sources

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.