speechifying
Speech parts
1. speechifying - Noun
2. speechifying - Verb
Meaning
of Speechify
The act of making a speech or speeches.
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In fact, when, in the dead of night after binge-watching two weeks of presidential convention speechifying, I learned of his death at the age of 72 from pneumonia, I recalled his nonfiction first.
Instead, the first-term senator continued with his speechifying and used the moment to illustrate his point that while things are bad now, they could get better — especially, cough cough, if he becomes president.
Like the lengthy scenes of speechifying (often accompanied by a useless prop visual aid, because that’s more “cinematic”), it suggests an imperfect impression of what movies are supposed to be.
There was no speechifying, which I definitely did not want.