How To Use Elocutionist In A Sentence

  • But the elocutionists, like the rest of the New Rhetorical movement, were doing more than simply borrowing the status of the classical tradition as a foundation for their work.
  • He is not only a senior leader, CEO and leadership coach of his team in excellent enterprise but also a outstanding educator, elocutionist and author of many famous leadership literatures.
  • I remember in particular one extremely talented girl - a gifted elocutionist and actor.
  • Such a criterion has been used by elocutionists and others in attempts to ‘improve’ speech, but without great success: spoken usage that is too ‘prosy’ sounds artificial and perhaps pretentious.
  • Twenty years ago when I was lecturing in America and I read a number of my poems to some audience in one of the eastern states, a woman asked from the end of the hall—I found afterwards that she was a professional elocutionist—‘Why do you read your poetry in that manner, Mr Yeats?’ Later Articles and Reviews
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  • I remember in particular one extremely talented girl - a gifted elocutionist and actor.
  • He is not only a senior leader, CEO and leadership coach of his team in excellent enterprise but also a outstanding educator, elocutionist and author of many famous leadership literatures.
  • Actually George C. Scott sounds a lot like an Ulster Presbyterian who has lost his faith, moved to England to make his fortune, and taken lessons from an elocutionist, only to quit halfway through the course because he decided it was a waste of money. MESSY KWEZNUZ
  • Aiming for a career as an elocutionist or public reader, Puffer graduated with honors in 1893. Savage Peace
  • These evenings were sometimes varied by recitations from an elocutionist on board; and a practised clog dancer excited the risibles of the company to the extent that they usually shouted with laughter at his exhibition of flying heels. A Woman who went to Alaska
  • Even a marvelous elocutionist like Rep. Michele Bachmann R-MN needs a little practice sometimes. Sara Benincasa: Michele Bachmann Meets the Press
  • Reporters from area newspapers were now well aware of the “wealthy elocutionist from Ayer and her choreman,” as one paper described them. Savage Peace
  • Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an "elocutionist" being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all. Main Street
  • Ironically, standards of oral pronunciation and bodily gesture central to the mission of the elocutionists were disseminated through works of print.
  • I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist. Archive 2007-06-01
  • Reporters from area newspapers were now well aware of the “wealthy elocutionist from Ayer and her choreman,” as one paper described them. Savage Peace

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