speechify

They travel first class, hobnob with politicians and dignitaries, speechify on safe subjects.

For much of the time, as they speechify from scripts mastered long ago, the experts might as well be in separate studios.

"Teaching you to speechify is another thing I should have my throat cut for," said Lymond.

She lets Nell stop the story cold and speechify: "Be wary of the man with a professional interest in justice.

The senators cannot stand the strain of their trial regulation forbidding all of them to speechify inside the chamber.

An invitation to speechify.

Many of the minor characters, at some point during the film, "speechify" about freedom and/or death, and their sentiments very likely reflected Wayne's own viewpoint.

Even as the presidents and prime ministers speechify, it is overdrawn and has peacekeeping debts of $1 billion.

Over 1100 participants competed to gain the floor to speechify, leading one historian to describe the scene as a "melee" in which "disorder reigned supreme."

And as a longtime government insider, Powell would know how to negotiate, infight, organize, speechify, hit the bottom line and take orders.

"You hear Clinton and Gore speechify until the cows come home about the Internet," Mr. Ruskin said.

Amid the chaos, people bleed, play cards, honk horns, attack one another and speechify on topics of concern to Mr. Godard.

Most novelists I know accused of writing thrillers throw up their hands and speechify about being forcibly buttoned into the tight jacket of subgenre.

Scene after scene consists of people making declamation after declamation, and Mr. Bank lets them speechify without much locomotion.

Characters tend to speechify rather than speak, and even Andy Zorn's thoughts are rendered in unnaturally formal, coherent blocks of prose that halt and summarize the action.

He 'ant naw pride in 'im, and we'll git 'im to speechify for us arter dinner.

Obviously George Bush can't speechify on the level with O, but then he wasn't reading text off a teleprompter which Obama needed even to address a sixth grade class.

Writers seldom do their best work when they've decided they're addressing the ages rather than the reader at their elbow: they nurse misbegotten caprices into full-grown enterprises; they speechify.

THE Urban Bush Women will dance, speechify, holler, chant and sing their way through a performance today in the Prospect Park Picnic House in Brooklyn.

Although minor characters are permitted to speechify, Mr. Healy's attempts to hasten the story along sometimes amount to mere plot summary: "There was hilarity in the confidences exchanged.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey, who knew he had a tendency to speechify at great length, liked to say, "I'm like the little boy who knew how to spell banana , but never knew when to stop."

At the same time, as if by magic, he transforms that abstract linear rhythm into illusory imagery, peopling the field with figures large and small who strut, sing, leap, speechify and otherwise disport themselves with ferocious intensity.

The idiosyncrasies of his collection and the personal effects, awards and memorabilia scattered around his house keep Mr. di Rosa in the foreground, even when the man himself doesn't drop by to speechify a bit to visitors.

I'm sure most of the politicians who went to the Lords only so they'd have a place to speechify after retiring from the Commons would rather do without this, but it's part of the British schtick, so at the least we ought to get the names right.