speechifying
Rimandi della forma della parolaspeechify
Sostantivo
The art of making speeches; rhetoric or oratory.
The act of speaking, especially at excessive length.
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"I thank you," said Lorraine, "for reinforcing my favourite theory, which maintains that a love of talking is the great feature of the present time. Steam is not half so much its characteristic as speechifying."
“To literary readers, the books look cheesy, sexist in a hairy-chest, gold-chain kind of way. His [Robert Heinlein's] stuff hasn’t stood the test of time,” because of characters’ windy speechifying and their frontier optimism.
When filibusters started being used in 1837, the lack of such a motion allowed for endless speechifying.
Forme della parola
speechifyings