"None taken. Even a well-wrought political speech has to be utilitarian and clear -- anything too clever or profound gets edited down, so no one mistakes your meaning. If a speech does move someone, it usually has more to do with the situation. Speeches of condolement, speeches on the eve of battle, that sort of thing." He pauses. "Don't mistake me -- speeches for ceremony's sake are important. I'm planning a wedding, and it's absolutely necessary that my friends make speeches. I'm sure they'll be very moving, since Lan Wangji is an exceptional wordsmith and Crowley is a raconteur¹."

¹ ... Sure, that's one way to describe them.