Elocutionist

Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an "elocutionist" being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all. ❋ Unknown (1920)

Even a marvelous elocutionist like Rep. Michele Bachmann R-MN needs a little practice sometimes. ❋ Sara Benincasa (2011)

Twenty years ago when I was lecturing in America and I read a number of my poems to some audience in one of the eastern states, a woman asked from the end of the hall—I found afterwards that she was a professional elocutionist—‘Why do you read your poetry in that manner, Mr Yeats?’ ❋ W.B. Yeats (2000)

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist. ❋ ____Maggie (2007)

Actually George C. Scott sounds a lot like an Ulster Presbyterian who has lost his faith, moved to England to make his fortune, and taken lessons from an elocutionist, only to quit halfway through the course because he decided it was a waste of money. ❋ Superversive (2006)

Reporters from area newspapers were now well aware of the “wealthy elocutionist from Ayer and her choreman,” as one paper described them. ❋ Ann Hagedorn (2007)

Aiming for a career as an elocutionist or public reader, Puffer graduated with honors in 1893. ❋ Ann Hagedorn (2007)

Howells repeated his withdrawal wish in a telegram—sent in care of the “elocutionist.” ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

And even the aitchless millionaire, though sometimes he goes to an elocutionist and leams a B.B.C. accent, seldom succeeds in disguising himself as completely as he would like to. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A “lady elocutionist” who recited Kipling and imitated children. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an “elocutionist” being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Finally a well-known elocutionist, named Burbank, conceived the notion of impersonating Raymond as well as Sellers, making of it a sort of double burlesque, and agreed to take the play on those terms. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The resulting words might not be as cleanly articulated as an elocutionist might like, but they could still be understandable to a person who knew the language. ❋ STANLEY COREN (2002)