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Modern habits of speech radiate weakness. Avoid them to get on
Authors, academics and thought leaders who lost income when live events stopped have become a pandemic success story
The good news is you do not even need to be provably funny, as long as you can show you have a sense of humour
Speaking clearly and honestly in a crisis cuts through the guff
If something is true and simply demonstrated, why not offer that demonstration?
Do not beat about the bush with idioms when it comes to making your meaning clear
Ronald Reagan’s Berlin Wall speech was one of his finest moments
No one intends to take their parents into a job interview, but they sneak in anyway
The strongman failed to deliver the promises of that 1980 speech
For most people, only practice can make you look spontaneous
The Apple chief drew on the co-founder’s celebrated address to students in 2005
Comparing the address with rhetoric for the Obamas highlights her scrupulous fairness
Women can change the way they sound for more impact, but authenticity is crucial
Daenerys’s speech lost none of its power for being delivered in two fictional languages
Nelson Mandela’s inauguration address was concise and concentrated in its rhetorical charge
In announcing her presidential candidacy, the senator reclaims the idea of ‘our America’
Shared wisdom once united us but culture wars have changed that
Staff will act on views broadcast from the top, however light-hearted
A lesson in public speaking for Halloween
The actor’s address to Variety’s Women of Power event borrows from classical techniques
New research sheds light on the language and gestures that sway investors
The Queen’s 1947 Cape Town speech may not have been delivered live. Does it matter?
The term echoes some of history’s most dishonest sloganeering
The Labour leader’s canned video was a poor substitute for an authentic live speech
US secretary of state’s speech addressed three audiences in one
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