With the air of lofty detachment from sordid interests, his sentences, clear and rapid, read like the clarion notes of a peroration, and impressed his great audiences with an earnestness that often carried conviction even to unwilling listeners.
Alexander describes the powerful oratory of a speaker who could sway even skeptical audiences.
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