Possible Clues:

• Language used for its dramatic sound
• Empty words?
• No point in chorister using declamatory language
• Language used for impressive or exaggerated sound
• Torchier with language of orator
• Torchier kind of colourful language
• 'For - he could not ope / His mouth but out there flew a trope' (Samuel Butler)
• Butler of rich cut all pomposity
• Somehow chorister hasn't succeeded in the art of public speaking
• To be absorbed by strangely richer way of talking