How To Use Rhetorician In A Sentence
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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.
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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'
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Put on your "Metaphoric Goggles" and view each version as a professional rhetorician or "wordsmith" would.
Rhetorical Style Phase #2
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‘This is a rhetorician's little joke, Wittenberg comments, ‘based in the self-effacing irony of paralipsis’.
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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
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He calls the rhetorician, who was the master of Q. Mucius Scævola, consul B.C.
Plutarch's Lives Volume III.
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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
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If rhetoricians are the approved practitioners of rhetoric, they can expand their territory by an expansive definition.
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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
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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
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Rhetoric want to form own service feature, rhetorician should popularize the rhetorical knowledge in the commons, but also offer academic achievement with original significance for other subjects.
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Foreign Secretary, -- the ornate and correct rhetorician, so famed for the concinnity of his phrases, the Earl of Beaconsfield.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
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“I shall not introduce—the rhetoricians call this paraleipsis—the wonderful woman sitting, appropriately, on my left, Mrs. Robert Kennedy.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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He characteristically remarks that he will not speak as a rhetorician, that is to say, he will not make a regular defence such as Lysias or one of the orators might have composed for him, or, according to some accounts, did compose for him.
The Apology
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In short, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory can help rhetoricians navigate the posthumanist theoretical landscape in a characteristically rhetorical way.
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But in the hands of the party's rhetoricians, such trite sentiments are intended to catch votes, not to express real policies.
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Crassus himself informs us, that, for two years together, a new race of men, called Rhetoricians, or masters of eloquence, kept open schools at Rome, till he thought fit to exercise his censorian authority, and by an edict to banish the whole tribe from the city of
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements
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As rhetoricians, we generally take as a starting point that rhetoric involves action.
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To the extent that Hoppin influenced Robinson, he would have accorded classical rhetoric primary importance and singled out Quintilian as the rhetorician deserving the highest praise.
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In times of radical change, artists, rhetoricians, and critical intellectuals too often underestimate our importance and our powers.
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The senses of rhetoric deployed here are quite narrow, invoking what ancient rhetoricians would have thought of as the third and fifth canons of rhetoric respectively.
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It's plain silly to compartmentalize the disciplines, as if a botanist couldn't talk to an economist, a geologist to a rhetorician, or N. A. Chomsky to G. W. Bush.
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And when the emperor saw that in no manner he could resist her wisdom, he sent secretly by letters for all the great grammarians and rhetoricians that they should come hastily to his pretorium to Alexandria, and he should give to them great gifts if they might surmount a maiden well bespoken.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7
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In rhetoric, however, the term 'rhetorician' may describe either the speaker's knowledge of the art, or his moral purpose.
Aristotle's Rhetoric - Selected Moments
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Perhaps most usefully, however, the book offers a repertoire of rhetorical suggestions, topoi for the specific topic of rhetoric (hence the Aristotelian force of the title-it is a Rhetoric of Rhetoric for rhetoricians).
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Aristotle regarded such figures and fancies as "adornments," but in the 19th century (which saw the birth both of Spooner and Sir James A.H. Murray's monstrous lexicographical child) the icing on the cake, all froth and saccharinity to the humorless rhetorician, becomes in fact the entire bill of fare; the rhetorical flourish, all we can discern of rhetoric, and the play on words, the word itself.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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Campbell's manner is refined and thoughtful; he is not a forceful lecturer, but a measured and methodical rhetorician.
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By contrast, the new abolitionist calls are being issued primarily by rhetoricians in the field who consider, in Young's words, art as grammar.
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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.
Gorgias
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But there is also in speaking a sort of concealed singing, not like the peroration of rhetoricians from Phrygia or Caria, which is nearly a chant, but that sort which Demosthenes and Aeschines mean when the one reproaches the other with the affected modulation of his voice.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.
Archive 2007-06-01
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Coupland the slaphappy rhetorician, drunk on throwaway tropes and instant epigrams, puts Coupland the pop sociologist in the shade.
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His recovery was not in this instance due to the calling on himself for the rescue of an ancient and glorious country; nor altogether to the spectacle of the shipping, over the parapet, to his right: the hundreds of masts rising out of the merchant river; London's unrivalled mezzotint and the City 'rhetorician's inexhaustible argument: he gained it rather from the imperious demand of an animated and thirsty frame for novel impressions.
One of Our Conquerors — Complete
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Lucian was a famous Greek rhetorician.
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I'm interested that over the years, the people who have invited us into their classrooms to see how they teach and talk most intelligently about teaching are not the rhetoricians.
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Numerous rhetoricians have also considered how rhetorical space is created and how it includes and excludes certain discourse, and certain speakers.
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This department would bring together the twelve to fifteen scholars of composition/rhetoric in English with the four to six rhetoricians from communications.
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Planudes may have invented some few fables, or have inserted some that were current in his day; but there is an abundance of unanswerable internal evidence to prove that he had an acquaintance with the veritable fables of Aesop, although the versions he had access to were probably corrupt, as contained in the various translations and disquisitional exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers.
Fables
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Still, confining the import of these two compositions to political commentary is limiting, just as it is limiting to contrast Plato the master of Socratic elenchus and Isocrates the master rhetorician.
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The moralizing is given all the force which an accomplished rhetorician can provide and is enlivened by anecdote, hyperbole, and vigorous denunciation.
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A rhetorician could note figures and tropes throughout the play.
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The legislators place is thus usurped by the sophist, the false reasoner, in deliberative assemblies; that of the judge by the rhetorician or pleader; the medical adviser is supplanted by the purveyor of luxuries, and the gymnastic teacher by the adorner of the person.
Antony
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One minor quibble, if I may be so bold as to noodge the Master Rhetorician: It isn't liberals who give the word "liberal" a bad name.
Clinton Camp: "Karl Rove Is Writing Senator Obama's Talking Points"
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It was a golden age for poets and panegyrists, koranists and literati, preachers and rhetoricians, physicians and scientists who, besides receiving high salaries and fabulous presents, were treated with all the honours of Chinese Mandarins; and, like these, the humblest Moslem — fisherman or artizan — could aspire through knowledge or savoir faire to the highest offices of the Empire.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Again, the image-based rhetorician has a competitive advantage over the concept-based rhetorician: imagery produces superior memory for verbal material.
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Campbell's manner is refined and thoughtful; he is not a forceful lecturer, but a measured and methodical rhetorician.
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Such work is likely to be outside the home unit's understanding of rhetoric, which will require educating colleagues who are not rhetoricians.
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The king bellowed, ‘The prefect is a typical Roman rhetorician - he speaks of everything and understands nothing.’
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In fact, as de Man goes on to say, "the metaphor is not a metaphor since it has no proper meaning, no sens propre" (RCC 201) and could more properly be called "the metonymic reversal of past and present that rhetoricians call metalepsis" (RCC 201).
Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History
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Olson, Richard McKeon, and Ronald Crane put hundreds of graduate students at least on speaking terms with classical rhetoric, and rhetoricians were active in the Hutchins college as well.
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And that fired her sense of injustice, and so she became an anarchist at that time, and she was, as we ` ve already said, associated with Berkman (ph), the would-be assassinator of Henry Clay Frick (ph), and she was this sort of fire-eating orator and rhetorician who went around the country giving these speeches about how, you know, you should resist tyranny.
Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt�s America
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As rhetoricians with no one definition of rhetoric and no shared characterization of the writing whose teaching they would supervise, they would face the risk of intellectual chaos.
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Wright begins with the note commonly sounded by rhetoricians: the orator must first feel the passion he wishes to ‘imprint’ in his audience.
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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.
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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
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From a critical perspective, Juanita's awareness that her work could be ‘dismissed as bogus’ because of particular language choices is an important factor in her development as a rhetorician.
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Familiarity with alchemy seeped through the broader culture, and artists and rhetoricians innovatively manipulated the meanings of its imagery.
The Times Literary Supplement
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We should insist on sincere rhetoric and sincere rhetorician.
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The traditional rhetoricians viewed metaphor as decorative in nature and independent of human cognition.
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The classical rhetorician called that antimetabole, though modern speech writers tend to refer to it as the reversible raincoat.
Analyzing The Text Of Obama's Inaugural Address
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An important Socratic Dialogue in which Plato sets the rhetorician, whose specialty is persuasion, in opposition to the philosopher, whose specialty is dissuasion, or refutation.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
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The rhetorician is a maker of beliefs in the souls of his auditors
Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry
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Yuson, passive-aggressive beerhouse rhetorician extraordinaire, blasted the selection of Lumbera as National Artist over his bet, Cirilo F.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Hence the rhetorician who wants to persuade by arguments or proofs can adapt most of the dialectical equipment.
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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.
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To the logician, it appears to be a paradox, whereas the rhetorician is likely to ponder its persistent oscillation between the inalienable status of the name and the as yet unrealized authority of the concept.
The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant,
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On the north side of the peristyle is a double portico containing the _exedrae_, or seats of the sophists, where each most cunning rhetorician delivered his opinions _ex cathedrâ_, and lay in wait for any passer whom he could insnare into an argument.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
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A distinguished cast of classical Greek and Roman rhetoricians differed fundamentally on the tasks of rhetoric and the evidence of their disputes is conveniently collected in Quintilian.
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To say that the drama often emphasizes the dark side of rhetoric is certainly true, but to argue that Renaissance rhetoricians were unaware of that side is simply to ignore a great deal of evidence to the contrary.
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Although Hairston, Young, Becker and Pike take for granted that Rogers' theories are appropriate for use by rhetoricians as a means to persuade, this is not the case.
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They were born into the misty morning twilight of the medieval renaissance, of an age when intellectual curiosity was awakening, when philosophy, the sciences and Latin literature were studied with a lively but uncritical enthusiasm, when the rhetorician and the sophist were the uncrowned kings of intelligent society.
Medieval Europe
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On the north side of the peristyle is a double portico containing the _exedrae_, or seats of the sophists, where each most cunning rhetorician delivered his opinions _ex cathedrâ_, and lay in wait for any passer whom he could insnare into an argument.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
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But his ineptitude in not changing the wording of the bordering text left a "literary seam" (what rhetoricians might term aporia) that sticks out like a pimpled nose.
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