speechify

1 I could spell all this out..but I do not want to speechify.

2 We had to listen to him speechify about what a wonderful governor he would be.

3 There is a strong female lead, an almost painful peeling back of the layers of sexual and structural violence against women, and a lot of feminist speechifying.

4 “Carlyle,” directed at a brisk clip by Benjamin Kamine and powered by the dynamic Mr. Jones, is loosely put together and sometimes devolves into random speechifying.

5 Mr. Kushner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, used newspaper and witness accounts to help with the speechifying in the House of Representatives, but “they didn’t actually transcribe in the 19th century,” he said.

6 Instead, the background details of the telecommuting legislators competed with the public-health questions and speechifying.

7 The lengthy speechifying — in language packed with allusions to ancient mythology — is as stiff as the songs are rowdy.

8 There is a good deal of speechifying from both the left and the right, none of it favorable to Kurt’s policies or personality.

9 So Oliver ended with his own stunt: the filibuster against the filibuster, in which he packed 15 hours of speechifying into one minute behind a podium.

10 Senators now have a chance to speak in the Senate chamber for the first time during the trial, with 10 minutes allotted to each of them to speechify.

11 If Mr. Jacquemus is going to make it off the backbenches to speechify on the floor, he needs to extend his range.

12 Television relies more on dialogue and conversation, and there, “Devs” is shakier, given to unnatural expository downloads and speechifying.

13 “Crime+Punishment” advances a thorough critique of American law enforcement not by generalizing or speechifying, but by digging into particular lives and circumstances, allowing affected individuals to speak for themselves.

14 When Mr. Frederick Douglass is speechifying he says that the second hardest step in making yourself free is the first one that you take.

15 There is a strong speechifying tendency in corrections.

16 His novels are hobbled by clumsy speechifying from supporting characters who exist only to give voice to political or philosophical points of view or to serve as objects of the hero’s contempt.

17 You can’t simply throw around hulking abstractions like “lies” and “fear” and “terror,” expecting the reader to mistake speechifying for wisdom.

18 He wrote speechifying soliloquies, conversational duets and chattery trios and quartets.

19 There is lots of coupling and uncoupling, and some speechifying about the radical theater world and feminism.

20 In Washington, cabinet secretaries pose and speechify ( Jonathan Alter )

在华盛顿, 内阁委员们装模作样和高谈阔论 ( 乔纳森奥尔特 )

1 演讲

speaking talking orate

2 高谈阔论

mouthy harangue orate spout perorate set the world to rights oratorical vocal loudmouthed speechifying

3 夸夸其谈

mouthy grandiloquent fustian rant palaver

4 发言

speech speak have the floor

5 说话

vocal word speech talk burst vocalize jaw utter wag chin

6 滔滔不绝地演讲

spruik

7 喋喋不休

garrulous garrulously chatter patter wordiness jabbering speechifying blabber yak gab clack babble on blab on drone on rattle on

8 讲话

speech peep utterance talk speak

9 演说

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