speechifying

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of speechify

noun

1. The art of making speeches; rhetoric or oratory.
2. The act of speaking, especially at excessive length.

   “"I thank you," said Lorraine, "for reinforcing my favourite theory, which maintains that a love of talking is the great feature of the present time. Steam is not half so much its characteristic as speechifying."”

   ““To literary readers, the books look cheesy, sexist in a hairy-chest, gold-chain kind of way. His [Robert Heinlein's] stuff hasn’t stood the test of time,” because of characters’ windy speechifying and their frontier optimism.”