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"Traoré is stylish and confident, with a very open face and a small smile. He is also a powerful orator, and presents himself as a man of the people."

For someone who had got to see Carney as a cerebral technocrat, a crisis-managing central bank governor a decade ago, the transformation into public orator was quite something.

By the 4th century BCE, Athenian orators even quoted lines from the tragedians in court, knowing that jurors “liked quotations from tragedy,” in one scholar’s words.

Biden – once regarded as a gifted communicator and orator - appeared less able to connect with the American people.

His friends describe him as a charismatic orator, who spoke softly and possessed wells of energy for the issues he cared about most.