How To Use Elocutionary In A Sentence
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elocutionary recitals
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With an elocutionary erudition surpassing that of his friendly rival, conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., Moynihan held forth with a staccato bravado -- that sometimes bordered on the comical -- punctuated by pregnant pauses, the result of a speech impediment and not, as Moynihan's political opponents sometimes suggested, a drinking problem.
Michael Sigman: Pat Moynihan's Letters Illuminate an Extraordinary Life
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Tell it naturally and simply, as the folk-tellers did, not with studied and elaborate "elocutionary" effects.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
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He must have studied the subject a great deal, when you come to think of it, because he assumed an "elocutionary" attitude.
Acres of Diamonds and His Life and Achievements
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With an elocutionary erudition surpassing that of his friendly rival, conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr.,
Michael Sigman: Pat Moynihan's Letters Illuminate an Extraordinary Life
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As he stood in that elocutionary attitude, friends, this is just the way that speech went.
Acres of Diamonds
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I told him I would favour the company with a display of my elocutionary abilities, but purposely withheld the title of the selection which I meant to recite, meaning at the proper time to surprise my hearers.
Fibble, D.D.
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I have heard him speak, he has a strong proclivity for the elocutionary department, a strong voice, and great enthusiasm.
Archive 2008-06-01
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The pure work implies the elocutionary disappearance of the poet.
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The elocutionary movement that pervaded both academic and popular spheres of nineteenth-century rhetorical life actually began some decades before, in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
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Its relatively stable set of themes, motifs, generic forms, and elocutionary devices invites an inclusive study that, Gordon Braden rightly notes, eludes our grasp.
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Just as a paradigm of mechanical prescriptivism took hold of the elocutionary movement in the nineteenth century, so too did it pervade instruction in handwriting.
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One should hasten to say, however, that over-nicety in enunciation, pedantic exactness, obtrusive "elocutionary" excellence, or any sort of labored or affected effort should be carefully guarded against.
Public Speaking
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Just as a paradigm of mechanical prescriptivism took hold of the elocutionary movement in the nineteenth century, so too did it pervade instruction in handwriting.
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It is discourse stripped of meaning, an elocutionary fragment that represents a form of expression that, at that time, was already referred to as ‘trance, hypnotic, or intentionless’ music.
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an elocutionary Oxonian delivery
