It was a brilliant... postmodernist masterpiece of oratorical fireworks, really.

Well, your faith in your oratorical skills is impressive.

Ah, what a thoughtful gift, an oratorical assault.

They are oratorical works that will survive the test of time.

It was a brilliant... post-modernist masterpiece of oratorical fireworks, really.

His farewell statement, offered to us so surprisingly last Tuesday, was such an oratorical masterpiece, providing us with an insightful diagnosis of the problems facing the Conference.

Perhaps I could offer, as a poor but ready substitute, a brief poetic recital. Though I do not pretend to any great oratorical skills,

President Mogae: A great many global issues of fundamental importance that need to be mentioned have been mentioned and fully articulated by others, by colleagues whose oratorical brilliance and technical competence I cannot hope to equal, let alone surpass.

Even if he turns out to be an outstanding student, he lackshis mentor’s oratorical skill and charisma; at the very least, hehas yet to demonstrate a similar talent for politics.

I should like to thank Ms. Bennis for awakening us a bit from this torpor of powerlessness and resignation and for pushing us to emerge from the influence of diplomatic jargon and from the heaviness of oratorical precaution and semantic posturing, contortions, even circumlocutions.