Those best acquainted with the Bishop of Poitiers say that his pulpit oratory is characterized by an authority, brilliancy, and force of argument worthy of St. Hilary, whose successor he is.
They would prove to you that the Christian oratoryof the fourth and fifth centuries is reechoed in the nineteenth, and that it is confined to no nation, but extends over the length and breadth of the Catholic world.
Its acoustic qualities, which I should think were not faultless, are intended for exclusively such oratory as put them to the test last night.
Cowper was not a great lawyer, but Burnet says that "he managed the court of chancery with impartial justice and great despatch"; the most eminent of his contemporaries agreed in extolling his oratory and his virtues.
Perhaps it was his gift of oratory which suggested his appointment as bishop of the refractory men of Devon and Cornwall.
About an hour from Rome is the Oratory of the Madonna del Rosario on Monte Mario.
Signs of weakness occur only in the centre, where, according to his wont, Liszt seems unable to resist the temptation to tear passion to tatters and strain oratory to bombast.
Boring as were the personal interviews, and exhausting the evening oratory in town halls and school-houses, the Sunday meetings at the gates of the chapels were still more arduous.
Again and again his triumphant oratory mastered the National Assembly of France.
This was repeated again and again, until at last whenever he came to a peculiarly fervid burst of oratory he turned to this woman's face and saw it lighted up by the same enthusiasm which was stirring him.
But a generous sub-editorial fraternity understood the speech differently; and newspaper readers doubtless came to the conclusion that oratory must now be added to the other accomplishments of the versatile R.
And there was one little affirmative word she had given him which he held more preciously significant than all the rest of the world's oratory put together.
Clement’s own dwelling, and to have originated in an oratory established there by himself, the Basilica of S.
The project was carried out, and in 1611, when the Oratory was established in France, its founder asked Francis of Sales to be its first superior.
It was during this visit that he suggested to Pierre de Berulle (afterwards cardinal) the foundation in France of an order for the education of the clergy, on the model of the Oratory established in Italy by S.
What we know of first-class Australian oratoryshows us the same alertness, swift flight, and clean delivery as a thrown boomerang.
The Canadians seem to like listening to speeches, and, though this is by no means a national vice, they make good oratory on occasion.
The year after, when Sulla and Pompey were Consuls, I learned what oratory really means by listening to Publius Sulpicius, who as tribune was daily making harangues.
There were three special modes of oratory in which Cicero displayed his powers.
It is necessary in all oratory to read something between the lines.
It is said to have been a fault with Cicero that in his speeches he runs too much into that vein of wrathful interrogation which undoubtedly palls upon us in English oratory when frequent resort is made to it.
Such oratory was never lost upon those whom it most concerned the orator to make acquainted with it.
At the same time I practised oratory laboriously with Demetrius Syrus, also at Athens, a well-known and by no means incapable master of the art of speaking.
Mrs. Besant with her gift of splendid oratory and her long experience of agitation was an exception, but her connection with the movement lasted no more than five years.
This oratory exists below the present church, which was formed by Bishop Pius, who died in A.
Domitian adjoining the house of Pudens, who founded in his house a Christian oratory before A.
Oratory had not gone out of fashion in these United States, and in Virginia it was indigenous to the soil.
I was placed on the top of the coach, to the delight of the outside passengers; where I soon made an acquaintance with the customary oratory of guards and coachmen, which produced much laughter.
Footnote 17: I had endeavoured to persuade him to take a part in parliamentary affairs, and to exercise his talent for oratory more frequently.
They shall bend before my oratory as the bulrushes of the Nile when the wind passes.
He learned the manners of many men and committees--admired the genuine goodness of some of the Jewish philanthropists and the fluent oratory of all; even while he realized the pettiness of their outlook and their reluctance to face facts.
Having been made, they were placed in the oratory of each house and worshipped.
On the whole, I partly agree with them, and, if I cared for any oratory whatever, should be as likely to applaud theirs as our own.
Then came the same wearisome old toast, dry and hard to chew upon as a musty sea-biscuit, which had been the text of nearly all the oratory of my public career.
All these elements of successful oratory Lord Lyndhurst has retained to an extraordinary degree until within a year or two.
Berzi in 1661 to theOratory of San Maglorian (Amelotte, Simon, Scholz).
This codex and the next three are in the Library of St. Maria in Vallicella at Rome, and belong to the Fathers of the Oratory of St. Philippo Neri.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oratory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
