Sentence examples for speechifying for from inspiring English sources

The filibuster may be well established in the popular consciousness — think of long-winded senators speechifying for days.

His "winter of discontent" soliloquy is cleverly split into public speechifying for the first half, suddenly descending into mutinous secret muttering in the gents.

Romney is portrayed as a tool of the alliance, a fallen would-be environmentalist who is hard on polluting power plants but ends up speechifying for the public's beaches even though the beaches along Nantucket Sound are mostly private.

Seriously -- listen to Dubyah's inane speechifying for his little brother and remember how his campaign drummed up homophobic hysteria in 2004 to win re-election.

Time was when to filibuster meant the opposition had to stand up and speechify for hours or days.

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.

There has been a vigorous tug of war over Taras Bulba, a character who combines the outsize proportions of Paul Bunyan with the speechifying of Henry V. Gogol himself set the stage for the fight, devoting lyrical passages to praise of Russia and its people.

The documentary stops dead at one point for speechifying about absolute freedom.

"The Man Without a Past" has a sly, controlled silliness that recalls Preston Sturges and a vision of resilience and nobility in hard times that suggests Charlie Chaplin without the sleeve-tugging sentimentality, or Frank Capra without the weakness for speechifying.

This is an interesting if not terribly original idea, but "The Reckoning," based on the meaty and readable novel "Morality Play" by Barry Unsworth, turns it into an occasion for speechifying and self-important acting.

Rupert Murdoch, unlike many CEOs, did not make his reputation, or build his business, as an outside man -- a smooth talking, limelight-seeking, frequently speechifying, walking-advertisement for his company and products.