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peroration noun address, bombast, declamation, discourse, epilogus, formal speech, grandiloquence, lecture, magniloquence, monologue, oration, oratorical display, orotundity, peroratio, prelection, prepared speech, public address, recitation, rhetorical discourse, sermon, soliloquy, speech, talk See also: close, conclusion How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| President Lincoln got away with front-loading the Gettysburg Address with a summary of the nation's founding precepts, but that was a different time--when you become a wartime president, people will put up with your introductory perorations. Adding insult to injury, David Rimanelli, in his contribution to The Mourning Stutterer--the mock newspaper that accompanied the show--proposes Tourette's syndrome as an alternative model for this "stumbling, shuffling, fractured" art, characterized as it is by "histrionic perorations of hatred, disgust, nausea. It's a safe bet that critics throughout history have always been fond of their writing and have believed themselves to be excellent at their various perorations. |
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