How To Use Rhetoric In A Sentence

But it is worthwhile teasing this apart a little, unbinding the different aspects of rhetorics lumped together in one component and separating out the semiotic layering (i.e. the use of metaphor and metonym) stuck in with the second. On the Sublime
Generally speaking, I tend not to get too bent out of shape by occasional rhetorical howlers.
I wasn't sure if this was a rhetorical question or not.
It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors.
Sharpening his rhetoric, what they call contrasting himself with Senator Clinton before she started fighting back. CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2007

Rivlin said that anti-immigration rhetoric has galvanized immigrant voters, bringing them to the streets in protest and to the polling booth.
Classic poetry and rhetoric give kids a language, at once subtle and copious, in which to articulate their own thoughts, perceptions, and inchoate feelings.
Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes.
Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
This isn't a rhetorical question but one that, again, would help show whether they're applying this rule fairly or arbitrarily.
The bestseller lists are full of books highly critical of religion, countered by pundits whose heated rhetoric decries a public square made “naked” by the absence of religion.2 Yet the fault line between those who are religious and those who are not hardly exhausts the ways in which religion can be divisive. American Grace
Sironi's peer in sculpture was Arturo Martini, who also used archaic forms to enliven the classical tradition in search of a non-rhetorical Fascist style.
The prose is strewn with biblical and poetic tags and pang full of rhetorical devices.
Obama is too intwined with Wright regardless of his denouncing of Wright's hateful rhetoric. Jeremiah Wright Steps Down From Obama Campaign
Rhetoric aside, his policies were hardly distinguishable from those of his predecessors.
Context is more important and complex in elaborative theory than in rhetoric.
Thus far, the data show a recurring rhetorical pattern in which vulnerable groups were identified as antithetical to the core values attributed by the host to himself, his audience, and the nation. Kety Esquivel: UCLA Study, Hate Speech on Commercial Talk Radio, Affirms NCLR's We Can Stop the Hate Campaign
Over the top rhetoric makes sense for the illiterati that the GOP courts to win their votes, but feeling the need to use it for the party power brokers is a disturbing new concept. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 4, 2010
These basic differences between oral and written communication are a fruitful domain for continued dialogue about the strengths, limitations, and complementarities of the first-year rhetoric classroom.
Inst it terrifying how easy it was to fill a blog with the prepackaged rhetoric that is being handfed to us 24-7. Think Progress » ALLEN: â€œA Likely Scenario For What Happened Today Is Patrick Fitzgerald Got Some Indictmentsâ€
At the meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America in 2000 a group of rhetoricians from Communication and English met late one afternoon to consider the future of rhetoric as an academic discipline.
It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
It is not that the themes of modernization and antinomian desire could not be found in these texts, but that neglecting them makes it easier to evade the problem of rhetoric and audience in Blake.
He frequently used such commonplace devices as rhetorical questions and other characteristic elements of diatribes.
Manichaean symbols and apocalyptic scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.
I am not of Paracelsus's mind, that boldly delivers a receipt to make a man without conjunction; yet cannot but wonder at the multitude of heads that do deny traduction, having no other arguments to confirm their belief than that rhetorical sentence and antimetathesis [I. 51] of Augustine, "creando infunditur, infundendo creatur. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
Find two of the most effective rhetorical questions in this essay and discuss their significance. Exploring language (6th edn)
He appropriated just enough of the rhetoric of each faction to keep them all enthralled and unalienated. The Times Literary Supplement
Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
In medieval terms, the Platonic approach locates music in the quadrivium, as a branch of mathematics, while the Aristotelian locates it with the practical arts of the trivium, grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
Why does Billmon keep asking these rhetorical questions?
Nations. yep, it's pretty quaint stuff, couched in terms of newness and normalcy, of foreigness and familiarity. it describes the music as modern and "swingy" and yet timeless, as being of universal appeal - they belong to everyone - and yet "from a single nationality." i wonder whether the universalist rhetoric was meant to appeal to non-jews or simply to jews ambivalent about their jewishness? or am i simply being naive about midcentury, metropolitan jewishness? it is interesting to me also that, apparently, zionist discourse had not yet divorced the term palestinian from any association with jewish heritage. Wayneandwax.com
Once again, what we get from Obama and his cronies is rhetoric, rather than a sensible plan of action. Obama camp out with new gas tax ad, Clinton camp fires back
Each of the elements he names demands a communicative, rhetorically performed reciprocity that today's electronic media make almost unthinkable.
Pish, I understand not the rhetoric (theoric, I should say), but I help myself somewhat by the practice. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
His aphoristic, rhetorical style, lends itself to statements that sound arresting but often mean very little.
He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric.
Again, the question is rhetorical. Times, Sunday Times
Her main accomplishment is sort of shifting the rhetoric of the administration's foreign policy away from this kind of unilateralist, "with us or against us" approach that we saw first term. CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2006
Representation is problematized by exposing its rhetoric as well as its more opaque meaning.
Ministers should be careful not to refight yesterday's battles with yesterday's rhetoric. Times, Sunday Times
When you ask (rhetorically) whether an ignorant person can have a deep insight, I think you betray your attitude.
His tightly honed but grandiloquent rhetoric rang like gold on marble, even when it was covering gross political ineptitude.
It actually shows up the huge amount of rhetoric and empty wording piece by piece.
The next step is a focus on specific rhetorical devices.
The exposure and _depluming_ (to borrow a good word from the fine old rhetorician, Fuller,) of the leading 'humbugs' of the age -- _that_ was announced as the regular business of the journal: and the only question which remained to be settled was, the more or less of the degree; and also one other question, even more interesting still, viz. -- whether personal abuse were intermingled with literary. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
The proper response to the globalization of greed and gluttony, and to the rise of violence in this world, is solidarity, which must manifest itself in practical actions, not just rhetorical flourishes.
The minister has shown she is long on rhetoric but short on action.
Government broadcasting policy has always been surrounded by high-sounding rhetoric, but the need to ensure financial viability while filling the programming needs of a voracious medium has always been the basic driver of TV practice.
Practical realities like these call into question the real commitment behind some of the rhetoric about community care.
He has annexed citizens' goodwill, not in fiscal speak but in a prophet's rhetoric, or even a poet's.
Full of rhetorical flourishes that bob along the way, neither standing apart from the orchestral textures nor biting into them. Times, Sunday Times
Radical rhetoric can disguise essential continuities in policy or simply provide a posthoc gloss to changes which were happening anyway.
While leaders in Beijing remain vigilant against Japanese "rearmament," their rhetoric is part of an orchestrated strategy to overtake Japan as the region's pre-eminent power. Smoke Alarm
As a skilled political counsellor More had to display his rhetorical skills in justifying often mutually incompatible or contradictory statements and beliefs in the service of the state.
No amount of rhetoric, clever policies, threats, or even extra resources will improve a service if the staff are demotivated.
The explanation of the anecdote's use begins with a return to the rhetoric of travel writing.
Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
And so rhetoric allows associative feminist psychologists to address psychology from outside, but from a recognizable and relevant perspective.
In delimiting teaching aim, we ought to help students understand rhetoric better and acquire better language competence.
Despite sometimes being quite sensible (as Mr. Kenney is trying to be on citizenship, refugees and immigration), it's members of the Frat Pack who are immediately off the mark with the kind of perfervid rhetoric that goes with the Conservative communications strategy: unrelenting partisanship and obsessive control of information. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
He's perfect as a camp hard-ass, spouting absurd rhetoric in his gravelly voice while depriving the inmates of the necessities of life.
So the primary options for its meaning here are either adverbial intensity or some kind of conjunctive use, since it is unlikely introducing the rare rhetorical question. Solomon’s Song of Love
Now is the time to transform rhetoric into action by waiving tariffs on exports from the poorest countries.
The rhetoric was wary and opaque, the mutual mistrust colossal. Times, Sunday Times
Republican Congressional leaders have launched a rhetorical assault against the Clinton proposal this week.
Creative leeway has always been granted to those novelists and letter writers who are able to pull off a controversial use of rhetoric with talent and grace.
This paper attempts to analyze the idiom's decomposability and its rhetoric characteristics from a relevance perspective of view.
In light of the examples of occult texts offered above, occult discourse is the result of a rhetorical antinomy between a belief and an action.
The argument has potency, but its delivery is marred by unwelcome rhetorical flourishes and a confused narrative structure. Times, Sunday Times
These too were affected by the democratic rhetoric of liberty and equality. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
Again, the question is rhetorical. Times, Sunday Times
Based on the existing researches, this paper carries out homonymy research from different points of views, like lexicology, semantics, rhetoric, pragmatics, comparative linguistics and so on.
How much effort either the president or the Congress is inclined to put behind the rhetoric is an open question.
He had left his church, spoken of Jesus as a human role model, and used biblical history and Christian dogmas simply as figures of speech, supportive exempla in his powerful rhetoric against the dead incarnations of past spirit.
Mr Papandreou's Pasok, embittered and demoralised, remains unable to evolve from unreconstructed popularism and anti-right rhetoric.
Like the Caroline poets of his epoch, Brome's use of rhetorical hyperbolism is also linked to the eye of the one who beholds.
Do these kids know how lucky they are?" Jackson asked rhetorically.
Antisemitism, support for Nazi Germany, portrayals of their enemies as sub-men or as effeminate were all features of BUF policy and rhetoric.
But images of the period are shrouded in myth and clouded by partisan rhetoric.
Beyond all the expected political rhetoric, Palestinian kids from the West Bank town of Jenin had played a concert for Holocaust survivors in Holon, outside of Tel Aviv. Karin Kloosterman: Why the Strings of Peace Were Silenced
If you tear off the rhetorical top-dressing from his article, you will find there is very little solid content.
His fervent soap-box oratory, rhetorical literary style, and experience as secretary of the Timber Workers Union brought a growing reputation.
There is an abyss between such rhetoric and the world we actually live in, an abyss called power.
Pouring out a remarkably viscous mixture of irrelevance and self-gratulatory dimestore rhetoric, the racist National Post blogger "Raphael Alexander" (not his real name) takes a poke at me for my remarks about Michael Coren yesterday. Archive 2009-04-01
He urged both parties to cool their rhetoric and put the nation's interest ahead of partisan advantage.
Assign your staff to build the sort of book on Russert's techniques, rhetorical gambits, and political obsessions that you'd want going into a debate with an opposing candidate.
Giuliani’s sole reliance on military force and attacking people rhetorically is in fact a defensive posture that won’t work. Thinking in Real Time
The rhetoric fashion of people of ah age and a clime has its traits to a certainty. The traits form special modes of expression about aesthetic experience.
Behind the rhetoric of noninterference is a huge desire to avoid the appearance of imperialism. Times, Sunday Times
Imperialism is a term often used as a rhetorical flourish and definitions vary especially in academic discourse and social discussion tracts.
Fair enough; ungrounded rhetoric does little good.
The professor rhetorically asked, "Does the redemptive-historical school regard his appeal to be 'atomistic' and moralistic?"
This paramilitary-industrial complex converts the rhetoric and conceptualization of fear into an economic reality.
She'd be forgiven for ranting even a bit more about voter apathy, but she wisely takes the high road in describing the disenfranchised young women who reject much of the rhetoric of their feminist foremothers.
His work included zoology, Arabic grammar, poetry, rhetoric and lexicography.
The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
That fierce, murderous eloquence does make me wonder whether the rhetoric of modern Islamists is comparable.
He grimaced slightly, obviously expecting no answer to his rhetorical question.
Just goes directly to an obviously preprepared rhetorical statement. When Joe Met Sarah
The gap between rhetoric and action makes it difficult to predict where the government is going. Times, Sunday Times
Thousands of ad campaign strategists flooding the DVR'd airwaves (and our Internet hours) with ignorable notions that are not swaying anyone with that blurry rhetoric. Richard Laermer: "Your Life Hasn't Changed By The Man Who's Elected"
On the other hand, epideictic rhetoric implies that tradition or social standing authorizes the rhetor to locate the object of praise in the criteria of excellence.
A favourite rhetorical device is the appearance of emphatically real-world items in unexpected places. The Times Literary Supplement
For reformers all along the rhetorical spectrum, red-light districts were the strongholds of organized vice.
This myopia is reflected in both political and media rhetoric, where “Republican” and “Conservative” have been so thoroughly conflated that they are used almost interchangeably across the board. Matthew Yglesias » Rudy: Still Likely to Fail
Felled by the ward of his intransigence, levelled and laid flat, sword brandished in denial – sword wafting words uttered emphatically in a trial of words by words, falling for the trap of his own rhetorical thirst, falling into the gap between those who run first and those who carp and cry in the pack – an empty husk cracked and ablated, an old fool trashed. Archive 2007-04-01
He should then appreciate the fine line between Churchillian rhetoric and hyperbole.
Yet these rhetorical flourishes are sparingly deployed. The Times Literary Supplement
Here Doyle's rhetoric begins to echo the US men's movement that campaigns bitterly - if rather quietly - about women controlling the domestic agenda, and tyrannising men with their strident demands for independence.
(voice-over): Not lost here is that Barack Obama was the first campaign to go on the offensive, sharpening his rhetoric, what they call contrasting himself with Senator Clinton, before she started fighting back. CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2007
In this passage, Oothoon's rhetoric of purity and defilement reveals her unwitting capitulation to Theotormon's ascetic dualism (which opposes chastity to harlotry), while her use of the verb "rend" in her instruction to Theotormon's eagles implies, most appallingly, an invited repetition of Bromion's act of rape. Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
However, his deeply felt and meticulously researched rhetoric conveyed in all his books is hard hitting, provocative and sagacious.
This political rhetoric would lead one to suppose that the subsequent proposals would be of an equally clear political substance.
There is a troubling darkness in its soul, which the righteous rhetoric and cynical evocation of God seem only to enhance.
What is required is immediate action, not rhetoric.
The writer showed great rhetorical skill.
As a result, nominees have been left in limbo, courthouses sit empty, justice is delayed, political rhetoric has escalated and political civility has suffered.
Questions remain, rhetorical and otherwise. Times, Sunday Times
They may have seen themselves as reviving a more ancient tradition, that of rhetoric.
accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested
A nation divided by populist rhetoric will weaken and fail.
The real problem is that the rhetoric currently focused on the band either treads water too obviously or overreaches in apparent hipness.
But the rhetoric of such movements can not be taken literally.
In Miguel Street, irony goes far beyond a rhetorical device. Instead, it's the narrative strategy of the whole novel.
This paper attempts to study the features and rhetorical mechanism of the enthymeme, which was, is and will be an important subject in rhetoric.
And why the deafen silence of the normally vocal Republicans remain mute, with no loud attacks on everything the Media Imperial President has done, with no rhetorical shouting points repeated ad nauseum, just taking the high road with a few reasonable discussions over actual policy points? Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Arm of the Military-Industrial Complex
Their rhetoric has emphasized national unity and social cohesion, as well as the development of skills for the economy.
Whatever high-flown rhetoric comes from the president next week, the reality is clear-cut.
Yet no one, he concludes, has offered demonstrable proof that Paul made conscious use of schooled rhetorical training.
The rhetoric of prejudicial disdain is meted out, on the one hand against the “hoity-toity”, and on the other against the “hoi poloi” -- against the “snob” with complex tastes and the “pleb” with simple tastes. Archive 2009-06-01
Badly scripted, obvious rhetoric is spewed from a platform of speakers.
With weapons and instruments of scholarship interspersed throughout its cabinets, this etymological play — transparent to Federico's colleagues52 — suggests that the entire Urbino studiolo may be interpreted simultaneously as an armariolum and armamentum, a witty spin on the traditional rhetorical trope of the vita activa and vita contemplativa. 53 48 Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
German scientific forestry was couched in a rhetoric of development and modernization.
Call it race, call it inexperience, call it empty rhetoric, call it whatever you want. Clinton holds big leads in West Virginia and Kentucky
Metaphor is not only a rhetorical device but also a cognitive means.
On the other hand, if it all goes wrong, he might turn out to be just one more erratic autocrat relying on nationalist rhetoric and the spoils system to stay in power.
(Let me again remind our readers that the rhetorical figure I so much enjoy using is called preterition, as in: "If I were as mean as my opponent, I would remind him that his mother sold not only homemade cakes to her male customers, but, being a gentleman, I will pass over that fact.") OUPblog
I mean, if the GOP wants to try to use pure rhetorical radar chaff to stymy Democratic bills, the Dems had better learn to respond by simply flinging it back at them. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | House GOPers Make Bid To Derail FISA Legislation
Because of Damian's rhetorical skills and his knowledge of Canon Law, the Pope used him as his legate on several occasions.
The session four years ago alienated many moderate voters with its fire-and-brimstone rhetoric that included attacks on gays and feminists.
Today, I think the rhetoric coming from the right wing media is the toxic poison that is spreading this culture war into our body politic so quickly.
So many of the classical rhetorical figures are just forms of repetition. Times, Sunday Times
In literature, the only field that even offers competition with medievalists for techno-geekiness is composition and rhetoric (especially the compu-comp folks). Blogging and Medievalists
Their analysis too often mingles management jargon, misapplied analogy, moralistic rhetoric, impatience and fear. Times, Sunday Times
Like a lot of lefties spooked by recent unwholesome political successes by the American right, I'm angry and feeling rhetorically confrontational these days, but violence is not the way to express it.
Recall his blustering campaign rhetoric about defeating the Taliban; recall the public commitment last Obama Never Considered Diplomacy In Afghanistan
Rhetoric replaces poetry, it is true, and paraphrase dries up the freshness and the sparkle of the metaphor. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
But the harshest rhetoric and most sweeping policy changes have been reserved for the poor, particularly poor women.
Let's keep the psychology and rhetoric of argument in mind while we debate our differences.
Rhetoric is a practical discipline; it has a strong tradition that merges theory and praxis in the concrete conditions of performance, especially as these are realized in democratic societies.
The reviews could be descriptive or interactive, polemical or irenical, or, heck, you could write a song about theosis and sing it on youtube or some such thing - reviewer's choice with regard to rhetorical form, length, etc. The Ochlophobist
Her fiery rhetoric was tempered by her humanity. Times, Sunday Times
But the elocutionists, like the rest of the New Rhetorical movement, were doing more than simply borrowing the status of the classical tradition as a foundation for their work.
English uses word order a worthy substitute for affixes instead of a rhetorical device in Latin.
Most modern consumers are savvy enough to see through their rhetoric. Times, Sunday Times
Ask Tessie, for instance, why being an Orthodox Jew is so important to her, and she answers rhetorically: “Why does an Arab wear the shmatte on his head?” Tessie and Pearlie
Gone was the sometimes rambling, but always inspiring, rhetoric that electrified his campaign. Times, Sunday Times
Including the term ‘rhetoric,’ we rhetoricians argued, would help to both demystify the term and avoid giving the impression that the option was a sort of vocational track.
From the moment George Bush coined his vapid "compassionate conservatism" rhetoric during the 2000 campaign, principled conservatives knew they were in trouble. The Reality Check
This is an argument from the field of descriptive linguistics, made for a rhetorical audience of laypeople.
Such writings were highly formal exercises in style and rhetoric, often delighting in dialectically arguing for and against a particular topic.
As democracy is, at present, the only permissible political rhetoric, the ruling class duly speaks its language.
Rhetorical purpose and the writer's intention are key elements in textual endeavour.
The rhetoric that accompanies high-minded discussions of the deficit has grown shopworn.
Hm. Some terms from classical rhetoric involving the canon of arrangement: dispositio taxis enumeratio merismus catacosmesis chiasmus digressio epiphonema (my personal favorite) complexio Names are important « Dyepot, Teapot
The author states with a grand rhetorical flourish: ‘Rome broke the tribalism of Celtic Britain with the iron claw of its uniformity’.
Analysis of the rhetorical strategies shows how prophetic religion in El Salvador was related to the political struggle between the oligarchy and the popular movements as the country descended into civil war.
Assuming that your question is not rhetorical: a tiller is the "stick" you use on a sailboat to control the rudder and steer the boat. Snap Polls Give Debate Win To Obama
Wait, that was a rhetorical question. Times, Sunday Times
Throughout, Tait notes that Witherspoon's sermons were earnest, clear, precise, direct, and unembellished by rhetorical flourishes.
As the legal escamotage of terra nullius denied the existence of Indigenous land tenure, opening up land and resources to European settlers, so cultura nullius is being used to justify government and market policy efforts to overlay our own, often foreign values and visions, on those that are rhetorically effaced and trade-off one cultural body of knowledge, skills, practices and values for another. Culture Matters
Further, Espy speaks about epiphora on pages 174 and 205 as a rhetorical device containing the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
Political rhetoric aside, Christians know that human freedom cannot bring lasting peace and prosperity - only the sovereign Lord of history can do that.
This rhetoric could only reassure if you were a blinking idiot and hadn't seen any news coverage of the current situation at all.
Then he uses a cute rhetorical device to claim that because the station discussed by Watts has a larger trend than the corresponding adjusted grid-cell, the adustments made by GISS and CRU are all tickety-boo. Gavin Schmidt: station data "not used" in climate models « Climate Audit
Melvin's words, sweet as they are, are dripping with twelve-step rhetoric.
His effective rhetoric reassured a country unsettled by the tumults of the 1960s and 1970s and perceptions of American decline.
In the process, his analysis has been vulgarised into the rhetoric of a war on terrorism.
Traditional and cognitive rhetorics differ most markedly in their approach to metaphor, metonymy, and other figures.
What is certain is that this rhetorical transformation has come just in the nick of time. Times, Sunday Times
In this fourth stage, it is clear that preachers dismiss rhetoric to their own peril and to the peril of the religiosity of their congregants.
The most noticeable rhetorical development in this sequence is the profound infantilization of Stephen's represented speech and the repeated ascription of shyness, timidity, and silence to Stephen and his soul.
Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,433 not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The self-abasement, you'll have noticed, is rhetorical.
And we must become critical of the real role of the WTO in society, contrary to the government rhetoric parroted by the media.
Alas, for every valuable insight which emerges, we find a greater proportion of heady rhetoric and circumlocution.
It's filled with unsupported assertions, deceptive qualifiers, logical fallacies and rhetorical tricks so cheap they would make a trial lawyer blush.
The rhetoric inherited from the Victorian world insists that prostitutes were penniless waifs of the street, servant girls who were seduced and abandoned, or the coarse streetwalkers hardened by city life.
Despite all the rhetoric and unkept promises, a light still flickers in the darkness.
There is a typology of rhetorical figures of speech made up of four tropes, they in turn govern the way we operate language: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
And there are TV screens everywhere, pumping out a constant stream of ramped up news and political rhetoric, at once nerving up and pacifying the populace.
I will return to this point in the conclusion, but it is important to underline that rhetoric courses can not be easily categorized even in course catalogues.
Or if it desisted from all rhetoric suggesting that it can solve its budget woes by further cutting Pentagon spending. A Republican Foreign Policy
The film has the rhetorical flourishes of the certain, but the confusion of the tentative.
Of course the concept of rhetoric can be used both positively and negatively. Times, Sunday Times
It is the rhetorick of Satan; and may pervert a loose or prejudicate belief. Religio Medici
There was no rhetorical flourish at the end, no elevation. Times, Sunday Times

How To Use Rhetoric In A Sentence

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