He once seemed bold in style and speechmaking, but only timid and incremental in policymaking.

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Speechmaking: In 2004, Mr. Obama wrote and delivered a Cinderella speech that took him from obscurity to rock stardom.

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Among politicians, there is the idealism of high-flown speechmaking, in which crowds are stirringly summoned to support great things.

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Yet Mr Mubarak's main rivals were able to get their message out in an unprecedentedly noisy barrage of speechmaking and publicity.

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He still has the speechmaking power that he displayed at the 2004 Convention, but for the most part he keeps it in reserve.

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Putting the two possibilities together in one sentence is brilliant speechmaking.

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Albert loved the sound of his own mellifluous Tennessee mountain voice and seemed enthralled by the art of speechmaking, which he had been practicing since his Possum Hollow childhood.

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Despite these and other threats and active combat operations in two theaters, it now seems pretty clear that, after the speechmaking ends, the applause dies away and the klieg lights go out in Washington, the troops are going to get screwed, not supported.

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