impassioned speech
Heartfelt public address
An impassioned speech is one delivered with intense feeling and conviction.
The phrase typically describes public addresses on weighty matters—justice, freedom, moral causes—where the speaker's emotional investment is evident: She delivered an impassioned speech about climate change.
The modifier impassioned elevates speech beyond mere talking to suggest genuine fervor.
- tiradeExtended angry speech
- orationFormal public speech
- ferventIntensely and sincerely felt
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
- eloquentFluent and persuasive
podium · rally · rally cry · call to arms · rhetoric · zealous · plea · closing argument · rousing · thunderous · heartfelt · from the heart · pulpit · declaration · vehement · stirring · moral high ground · manifesto
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