Paul resumed his oration, snacking on candy at the dinner hour while continuing to speak.

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It's hard enough to sit through a Giscard oration at the best of times.

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If he was first in war, as was said in his funeral oration, he was also first in peace.

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Thus, the texture of his opening oration tends toward the dense.

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It was instead an oration rooted in the immediate challenges.

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Don't disrespect the fan, Rahul Dravid eloquently said at last year's Bradman Oration, and to expect fans to flock to cheer non-performing cricketers at the highest level is a bit fey.

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Dravid also became the first non-Australian to perform the prestigious Bradman Oration on the state of the game in December 2011 -- named after the late Don Bradman, widely regarded as the best batsman of all time.

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On the contrary, no feast day for Sol is mentioned on that day until 80 years later in the Calendar of 354 and, subsequently, in 362 by Julian the Apostate in his Oration to King Helios (the Sun).

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The "Gloria" that he wrote for the Boston Symphony in 1960, for instance, is not a ponderous oration but a festive piece that he once likened to a 15th-century fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli in which angels can be seen sticking their tongues out at one another.

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