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Example sentences for "public speaking"

  • Public speaking, even on the part of gifted women, is alien alike to St. Paul and true modesty.

  • Still another realm in which women to-day are finding large opportunity was practically closed to the women of earlier times, and that is public speaking.

  • Throughout the earlier years there was a great emphasis on public speaking, for which ample opportunity was given in various "class exhibitions.

  • But if the powers that be were slow to recognize the desire of the students for instruction in public speaking, there were many more or less unofficial avenues for those who desired to give vent to their oratorical impulses.

  • Bishop Samuel Wilberforce was reckoned by Mr. Gladstone as one of the three men who, of all his acquaintance, had the greatest natural gift of public speaking.

  • Lord Chief Justice Coleridge told me that he had once asked Gladstone if he ever felt nervous in public speaking.

  • Then again, I had a natural and inborn love of public speaking, and I have known no enjoyment in life equal to that of addressing a great audience which you feel to be actively sympathetic.

  • The important thing in public speaking is neither the diction nor the voice.

  • But we have every reason to believe that both Greeks and Romans were most severely trained in the art of public speaking, and that forensic eloquence was highly prized and munificently rewarded.

  • In Athens the courts of justice were numerous, and those who could not defend themselves were obliged to secure the services of those who were trained in the use of public speaking.

  • You will do no better in attempting to imitate the tricks of speech of other men in public speaking than in private speaking.

  • The tone you adopt then will ordinarily be the best tone for you in public speaking.

  • He had a diffuse and rather inflated style, both in public speaking and in private conversation.

  • Incidentally we notice colloquial tendencies, the requirements of public speaking, and other topics arising naturally from our subject.

  • The sound will, however, carry further if you open the passage again; and in public speaking it is therefore to be recommended.

  • It is heard on the stage and in public speaking generally; in ordinary conversation it suggests the speech of a foreigner, especially if the [ɑ] element of the diphthong is lengthened.

  • If those are the requisites of public speaking, Palmerston was supreme.

  • Did you ever feel nervous in public speaking?

  • In the present abridged and modernized form it may be read and studied with benefit by earnest students of the art of public speaking.

  • The most constructive approach is to take a course of instruction to get the actual practice and experience in the techniques of public speaking.

  • It is the example of the many individuals who have taken public speaking courses to overcome stage fright.

  • It was on the occasion of one of these visits that I made my very first attempt at public speaking.

  • I had at first everything to learn with regard to public speaking, and Lucy Stone and Mrs. Livermore were much more at home on the platform than I was.

  • In this way he will cover the principal forms of public speaking, and enable himself to apply his knowledge to any occasion.

  • Like Cicero or Demosthenes or Plato or Thucydides or Tacitus, Quintilian would be a great man if he lived in our times, and could proudly challenge the modern world to produce a better teacher than he in the art of public speaking.

  • The art of public speaking in Rome was early developed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dated from; like sort; looked upon; public acts; public amusement; public assembly; public breakfast; public character; public charge; public education; public enemy; public finance; public health; public improvements; public interest; public lands; public letter; public office; public profession; public prosecutor; public servants; public services; public speaking; publick affairs; publicly display; thought fit