rhetorically

How To Use rhetorically In A Sentence

• Many of these arguments from the early 1980s now appear rhetorically overextended, with too many unsubstantiated leaps across discursive spans.
• The problem with that idea, though, is that the administration is boxed in, politically and rhetorically.
• For him, all artistic devices perform some function, and all artistic devices are therefore rhetorically motivated.
• When CNN's Rick Sanchez had a panel discussion on Hillary's "obliterate Iran" comment, he rhetorically asked words to the effect "well, 'obliterate' is just a word ... what she meant was we would deal with Iran harshly ... so what's wrong with that? McCain camp accuses Obama of making age an issue
• Sensing victory, she scolds rhetorically: "Are not feet that are unable to stand a person on her own truly wasted?"
• As the newspaper recently asked rhetorically, "If they cited non-existent threats just to get a hold of the petroleum there, what won't they do to appropriate ours?"
• Rhetorically, this is effected through literalization. The Times Literary Supplement
• Somehow, the sense of circumstantiality and of power in reserve (if an anecdote or example doesn't sound strained but sounds as if you've got fifty others and this is the best one you chose) are factors that are rhetorically important.
• What I take issue with is his championing the idea rhetorically, but not pursuing it tenaciously. D. Brad Wright: Why Won't Obama Lead on Reform?
• The distinction is now moot; knowledge rhetorically induced from a representative anecdote will ironically contain both of Ransom's two knowledges.