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(rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration
he summarized his main points in his peroration - a flowery and highly rhetorical oration
How To Use peroration In A Sentence
- At the end of his peroration, Bunbury drew a deep breath and picked up his gold propelling pencil. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
- The peroration was magnificent, though difficult to remember, you know.
- Foucault has many perorations about the nature of power.
- Indeed, the ironic peroration had even amused some of the writers and they had dispersed in resigned good humour. MURKY SHALLOWS
- He concludes a short peroration on someone's misdemeanor (never mind who; the cause of wrongdoing is universal).
- Crondall carried you with him; for he dealt with men and things as he had brothered and known them, before ever he let loose, in a fiery peroration, that abstract idea of Empire patriotism which ruled his life. The Message
- Kimberly finished her peroration, at last, and then folded her arms, promised to try harder in her school work, and sat back in her chair with a smuggish simper on her face.
- The latter can really, really stink if you're a minute into your peroration and you realize you're going to have to fake it, because you've already bored yourself.
- Tony Blair's epideictic performance at the Labour Party conference last year won admiration even from his foes, but by and large the digital age is cool to rhetoric and, as the enthronement of the blogger suggests, prizes incoherent impulse over the Ciceronian arts of the exordium and the peroration. First Post Says Blair to Resign on May 9th
- At last, it gives this clinic effect and peroration.