stem-winding

• “He doesn't get up and make big stem-winding speeches.”

  Voice of America: Obama Concludes Campaign Trip

• “The Speaker then made a stem-winding speech urging the caucus to devote every waking moment until March 18 to finding balls.”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Steinberg: House Democrats Given Chance To Find Balls

• “In fact, it is roughly the same length as "In Defense of Distraction," the book critic's stem-winding manifesto about the impact of the Internet on the cultural consumption of an entire generation.”

  The Huffington Post: ARTINFO: Francophrenia: A Digest of New York's Epic James Franco Profile

• “An often profane showman who was known for wearing the world's worst toupee, Traficant routinely ended his explosive, stem-winding floor speeches by quoting the "Star Trek" line "Beam me up!”

  The Washington Post: Jim Traficant's trying times of 2002 could be repeated for Rep. Charles Rangel

• “The darling of the hard-right; she gives stem-winding speeches.”

  Charlie Gibson agreed to have his nuts cut out -- according to Josh Marshall.

• “He came out for him in that stem-winding of a speech and saying that he saw in Barack Obama a John Kennedy lookalike.”

  CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2008

• “There, television critic Alessandra Stanley thrills to the authentic voice of black America: Mr. Wright "went deep into context — a rich, stem-winding brew of black history, Scripture, hallelujahs and hermeneutics," Ms. Stanley effuses.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Wright Side of the Brain

• “Roosevelt, as we all know, in those days particularly there was a lot of stem-winding speeches and whistle-stopping across the country.”

  1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs- The Election That Changed the Country�

• “Herein resided the stem-winding, therapeutic logic of the year-long national "conversation on race"; the periodic presidential apologies for world-historic wrongs which were usually strategic evasions of actual legislative responsibility; and the fussy feel-good conferences on teen violence and the media.”

  The Feel Good Presidency

• “FORD: He could give you a stem-winding (ph) speech that would knock you cold.”

  CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: The Best of Interviews With Gerald Ford - February 3, 2001

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