Are we better off - oratorically - than four years ago?

Oratorically he began to enumerate the events of the past year.

But in the midst of it he felt impelled to make a speech, and raised his voice oratorically.

Oratorically at least, he has seized the high ground once virtuously held by the United States.

He oratorically protested the outrage of doubting his identity.

Granted, the New York Governor is probably the most oratorically gifted politician in either party today.

He flung out a hand oratorically.

Oratorically gifted, Huey has shown the ability to seize and hold the attention of entire crowds of people when he wants to do so.

They wiggled, staggered and gestured oratorically.

The surprise of the trip has been Mr. Gore, who is oratorically fired so far beyond his usual phlegmatic level.

Others gestured oratorically.

It is an implicit rebuke of Mr. Giuliani as oratorically overheated and short on specifics.

He had lighted some fires and put a few out, oratorically speaking, but to an outsider, he still seemed uncomfortable with the business of selling himself.

"Max rations," I went on oratorically, "are supposed to be tamper-proof, but this is plain burglary.

"But that means " McCoy stopped, realized his ' finger was still thrust oratorically into the air.

(Mistaken is weak; wrong, with its connotation of moral condemnation, is oratorically strong.)

But this was one of the rare times in the Senate when the day was carried oratorically, both sides agreed, by a Senator on the losing side.

"We are to become public mentors to the simple natives of Chazy County," continued Patsy, warming up to her subject and speaking oratorically.

"Fellow-colonists, it is a grave thing to secede from the System Government," Jed Harmer oratorically told the crowd.

The different treatment afforded those gentlemen indicates that, though both are African-American, they are substantively different men--physically, politically, and oratorically.

"He is rhetorically and oratorically a handicapped man," said Thomas E. Cronin, a Presidential scholar at Colorado College.

MINUSES: On the screen, the play becomes a redundant, oratorically overwrought brief for freedom of speech.

Instead, copses and broad swaths of woodland grew everywhere, punctuating the slopes and unfurling oratorically across the vales and valleys.

The Sophists invited their clients to look at language itself, to learn how things are said effectively, oratorically; they offered to teach anybody to be convincing about anything, for a fee.

Ms. Redgrave towers, and her movements are deliberate, dramatic; she speaks almost oratorically, throwing out Lear and Ibsen as if they were casual acquaintances.