Crossword-Solution: DEMOSTHENES
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| Attic orator | 1 answer |
| Orator who railed against Philip of Macedon | 1 answer |
| Seaside orator. | 1 answer |
| Shows a Sega Genesis rival at an expo? | 1 answer |
| Athenian orator. | 3 answers |
| Orator | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
COTEELR
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with DEMOSTHENES (5)
Once, when they were standing before that noblest of sculptured portraits, the so-called Demosthenes, in the Braccio Nuovo, she made the only spontaneous allusion to her projected marriage, direct or indirect, that had yet fallen from her lips.
You do not often find the youthful Demosthenes chewing his pebbles in the same room with you; or, even if you do, you will probably think the performance little to be admired.
They grace the back steps of a rather shabby villa in the country,--Demosthenes and Cicero, larger than life, dreary, funereal memorials of the follies of our fathers.
Question was asked of Demosthenes, what was the chief part of an orator? he answered, action; what next? action; what next again? action.
Chairman," says Billy Harden, flushing up and stuttering jest a little, "I b-beg leave to d-d-decline." "What," says the doctor, sort of playing with Billy with his eyes and grin, and turning like to let the whole crowd in on the joke, "DECLINE? The eminent gentleman declines! And he is going to sit down, too, with all that speech bottled up in him! O Demosthenes!" he says, "you have lost your pebble in front of all Greece." Several grinned at Billy Harden as he set down, and three or four laughed outright.
Quotes with DEMOSTHENES (3)
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes for a stutter; and Homer was blind. Socrates couldn't manage his wife, and infuriated his countrymen. And what about Jesus, if we need an ultimate …
Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally weak, made a long journey into Greece to correct his manner of speaking. With far nobler themes, let us not be less ambitious to excel.
Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no danger, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1948–2015).