rhetorician

How To Use rhetorician In A Sentence

• As rhetoricians, we understand the strategic power of attending to practical resources of particular situations, and a rhetorical stance on rhetorical studies needs to put that understanding to use.
• This is to misread my remarks in A Better Guide Than Reason, where I argue that there is an analogy between Lincoln's use of epidictic rhetoric and what the ancient rhetoricians call the "Asiatic style" — the idiom of priests/kings. Lincoln's 'Asiatic Style'
• Put on your "Metaphoric Goggles" and view each version as a professional rhetorician or "wordsmith" would. Rhetorical Style Phase #2
• ‘This is a rhetorician's little joke, Wittenberg comments, ‘based in the self-effacing irony of paralipsis’.
• And yet, Socrates, rhetoric should be used like any other competitive art, not against everybody-the rhetorician ought not to abuse his strength any more than a pugilist or pancratiast or other master of fence; because he has powers which are more than a match either for friend or enemy, he ought not therefore to strike, stab, or slay his friends. Plato's Gorgias - Selected Moments
• He calls the rhetorician, who was the master of Q. Mucius Scævola, consul B.C. Plutarch's Lives Volume III.
• Citium pay particular honor to a certain tomb which they call the tomb of Cimon, according to Nausicrates the rhetorician, who states that in a time of famine, when the crops of their land all failed, they sent to the oracle, which commanded them not to forget Cimon, but give him the honors of a superior being. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
• If rhetoricians are the approved practitioners of rhetoric, they can expand their territory by an expansive definition.
• Dozens of refinements on standard descriptions hold meaning for ut pictura poesis but the matter is complicated since many medi - eval and Renaissance rhetoricians are in conflict over both definitions and examples for descriptio, charac - terismus, effictio, mimesis, notatio, informatio, diatypo - sis, prosopographia, prosopopoeia, and many other categories that demand varying amounts of formed concrete detail. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• He characteristically remarks that he will not speak as a rhetorician, that is to say, he will not make a regular defence such as Apology