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.
-
Rhetorically, he often proposed that modern architecture be regionally specific rather than globally uniform.
-
His dusty and impoverished desert nation, after all, is under attack from all sides, rhetorically and literally.
-
`What can be done?' he asked rhetorically
-
But simply pointing out problems, and waxing rhetorically, is not enough.
Scott Harshbarger: Yes We Can Reduce Urban Violence (Part I)
-
The Dumbocrats should run campaign adds featuring Pat Boone's Fruit-of-the-Loom commercials from the '70's and ask rhetorically, who is the "treat"? tantalus wrote on November 5, 2007 6: 41 AM:
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Kentucky GOP Pushing Anti-Gay Message In Final Days Of Gov Race
-
Rhetorically speaking, the willful silence of the superordinate can serve as a potent expression of institutional authority and discipline.
-
I know that blogging rhetorically is probably a mistake, but I have time and it’s a wonderful way to close a bunch of tabs, and contemplate about our existence.
Blog De Ganz | Archive | February
-
In his rhetorically powerful letters and dedications George apparently saw Mehmed as a suitable patron of his academic skills.
-
Most composers from Bach on play the double game of creating arresting individual variations and a rhetorically dramatic whole.
-
She said that she rejected the use of realism for its own sake (“If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?” she asked rhetorically) as well as the idea of mimicking the styles of others (“Rather than spend my life on imitations, I would not paint at all,” she said).
Portrait of An Artist
-
The irony about the ironist is that, rhetorically, the metaphysician has the better game; so who’s the pragmatist, really?
Matthew Yglesias » Richard Rorty
-
Recounting the conversation rhetorically, he asks, You going to believe your microfiche twenty feet away from you, or me, city historian, or you going to believe someone who told you?
John V. Santore: Democracy in Clinton, Iowa
-
'Do you think I'm stupid?' she asked rhetorically.
-
(Of course, rhetorically is a critical modifier — there are the arguments that the right wants a Court to make law like a legislature as well, but to get there from your comment required assuming more subtlety in your critique than I usually read into a blog comment.)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Polling on the Court
-
He and his writers are very intelligent, and seem to know just how to rhetorically back people into logical corners.
-
Either way, it's certainly interesting to hear the candidates, at least rhetorically, framing the debate in such stark terms, without worrying about the "class warfare" countercharge that for so long set Dems quaking and scurrying off to their consultants for advice. print share
Obama Decries "Second Gilded Age"
-
His adoration, like a jealous lover's, is only rhetorically distinguishable from contempt.
-
How would you deal with an errant kayaker?" he asked rhetorically, with a slight smile.
New Era Set For 9/11 Site
-
How does this introduction function rhetorically?
-
"Who can doubt now," he asks rhetorically, "that they were right to denounce the idea of religion based on human sacrifice?"
-
When you ask (rhetorically) whether an ignorant person can have a deep insight, I think you betray your attitude.
-
Do these kids know how lucky they are?" Jackson asked rhetorically.
-
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 professor rhetorically asked, "Does the redemptive-historical school regard his appeal to be 'atomistic' and moralistic?"
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
I heard the clip from the speech where Bush made the "commander guy" statement, and, although his syntax was as always vey awkward, he clearly said just what she says he did -- that he, Bush, is a guy who supports milliary commanders over others rhetorically presented as inadequate to make decisions about Iraq.
Election Central Saturday Roundup
-
His dusty and impoverished desert nation, after all, is under attack from all sides, rhetorically and literally.
-
"Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new truth to be discovered by a new majority tomorrow?" the future pope asked rhetorically in a 1996 interview.
-
Homophonic hypertexts are of a function of puns and rhetorically featured with humor, novelty and brevity.
-
You want to know what courage is?" he asked rhetorically.
-
Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context.
-
That said, Brown gave a good account of himself rhetorically, which is what this debate is primarily about.
Queen's Speech Live Blog
-
Each of the elements he names demands a communicative, rhetorically performed reciprocity that today's electronic media make almost unthinkable.
-
Foundational to Garver's argument is Aristotle's insight that the rhetorically relevant ethos is the one that is constructed in the rhetor's discourse.
-
The preface, to be sure, shows a perhaps rhetorically prudent ambivalence towards the use of humour in polemic.
-
He rhetorically asked, "What's next?"
-
It also might offend the tradespeople who work in the creation of buildings [tell this to any tradesperson and they might actually punch you in the face [and you'd deserve it]], with the judges asking rhetorically: “Is it true that all builders are cowboys, builders get their work blown down, and builders are like pigs?”
2008 January 24 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
-
One senior advisor asked, rhetorically, if illiterate farmers would vote for the information superhighway.
-
Of course this is true, but you did not merely put a name to it; you called rhetorically, for an action in response to it, and then you used this reversal of the objectifying gaze/logic–which I will say again is not a way out of a patriarchal view of the body–to justify that call.
Phyllis Schlafly: Punishing Spousal Rape Like Rape Is Malicious
-
Suddenly, the narrator speaks in his most rhetorically elevated mode.
-
He understood what the significance of an assimilation of Dewey to Freud might hold rhetorically within the realm of American cultural politics.
-
How, Lind asks rhetorically, can George Will and I misunderstand or misrepresent such straightforward terms as "reaffirm," "restore," and "preserve"?
Articles on National Review Online
-
Sure, there's a good deal of redundancy here, but such redundancy is often rhetorically valuable.
-
Knowledge rhetorically induced from a representative anecdote will ironically contain both of Ransom's two knowledges.
-
He asks rhetorically, "How do I teach a kid in journalism to go after the truth and teach a kid in public relations how to lie?"
-
Unmediated devices are motivated rhetorically, while mediated devices are motivated both rhetorically and referentially.
