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    Use "rhetoric" in a sentence

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    rhetoric


    1. In the years leading up to the war, the rhetoric and the hostilities intensified


    2. "Oriah, don't play your games with me! I've grown tired of your rhetoric over the years


    3. Believest thou this? Do you truly believe that he who is in Christ is a new creation? Do you really have faith to believe that you were once dead in your trespasses and sins, but now have been made alive? How much of this is rhetoric and how much is reality? This is the main question that determines the true from the false


    4. speech could influence it, no rhetoric could inflame the mob to


    5. rhetoric with "real" harm


    6. time the most fashionable of all sciences, rhetoric


    7. was mostly orally, and the rhetoric was one of


    8. Even still, he was never wholly motivated by the fiery rhetoric of some Stormcloak sympathizers


    9. In the progress of refinement, when philosophy and rhetoric came into fashion, the better sort of people used to send their children to the schools of philosophers and rhetoricians, in order to be instructed in these fashionable sciences


    10. The demand for philosophy and rhetoric was, for a long time, so small, that the first professed teachers of either could not find constant employment in any one city, but were obliged to travel about from place to place

    11. As the demand increased, the school, both of philosophy and rhetoric, became stationary, first in Athens, and afterwards in several other cities


    12. It may, perhaps, be worth while to remark, that, if we except the poets, a few orators, and a few historians, the far greater part of the other eminent men of letters, both of Greece and Rome, appear to have been either public or private teachers; generally either of philosophy or of rhetoric


    13. Further, the Athenians were in the habit of banishing people who had gained the disfavor of the Assembly, and neither tyranny nor oligarchy were possibilities far removed from their traditional political processes, the rhetoric of Pericles notwithstanding


    14. They are not going to stop unless they get stopped, until the electorate wakes up and recognizes that political rhetoric is no substitute for competence (with thanks to Thomas Sowell)


    15. For other ways to look at the world, see his „Visions of Order," and his „Ethics of Rhetoric


    16. ―marginalized‖ by Democratic Party Rhetoric


    17. Once push comes to shove, however, and despite all the rhetoric, few individuals will option for death, whatever the extent of their illness


    18. 6) The Church‘s position on Immigration (Reform) and its antiwar rhetoric that is especially troubling to Conservative Catholics who believe that the Church should shy away from politics and stick to preaching


    19. You simply approached either Moscow or Washington with the correct rhetoric and they would fall over themselves to support you


    20. But when the cold war ended the game changed dramatically for suddenly your rhetoric became rather unimportant to Washington and Moscow ceased to exist as a supplier

    21. However, when the fighting ended, they were again ignored: communism’s promise that all Nicaraguans were equal was reduced to political rhetoric by a government every bit as wrought with nepotism and corruption as the Samoza regime had been


    22. What he was good at was rhetoric


    23. His education had focused on protocol, languages, diplomacy, and rhetoric


    24. “It’s hard to win a war with nothing but empty hands and fiery rhetoric, isn’t it father?” replied Nicole, her eyes discreetly following Ethan around the crowd, while he had taken it upon himself to hand out biscuits to all the children


    25. They were paid teachers who taught the art of rhetoric, or persuasive oratory


    26. Rhetoric in today’s political glossary was


    27. Rather than in a negative, morbid rhetoric restrict the development of the society, more not to negative, influence the development of moral human pathological


    28. In their chants of, “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ Has Got To Go” the rebels of the sixties believed that the diaphanous rhetoric of their rebellion included a total rejection of religion in all its forms


    29. If Obama’s transformative rhetoric was noted at all it sounded to most voters more like typical overblown campaign filler than anything seriously contemplated


    30. Few Americans understood the real Hope of the candidate himself, or its implications that shone only dimly through his teleprompted rhetoric

    31. ” Obama’s bait was his soaring rhetoric


    32. Obama, dour, deadpan, and soulless, with an arrogant tilt of the head, a great orator? Is stroking with soothing words those whose wonderful country he intends to drag down into sociofascist poverty quite the same thing? Is a wigwagging mist of rhetoric, soaring from alternate TelePrompTers, if seemingly enticing upon emission, but vaporizing when pursued for substance, great oratory? There must be another word for it


    33. All of this anti-calorie rhetoric therefore has made a lot of us pretty


    34. and more often his rhetoric was being met with wild cheering


    35. For 40 years, this idea has dominated the rhetoric and policy making of death-penalty opponents in the United States


    36. to wash away the washed-up rhetoric


    37. inflammatory rhetoric which made headlines but added little to nothing


    38. leads to - analysis reveals that selfishness is operating, but masked by a "caring" rhetoric


    39. rhetoric with reality, or mindlessly accepting “the official version” of anything


    40. With flushing, I refused by arguing, not being familiar with the pace that was playing, attributing also to my trip a nonexistent weariness, but Americus that was as stubborn as convincing, and possessed the intellectual wisdom of the geniuses, and in consequence, was immune to the fictitious excuses, raided into our spirits with the rhetoric of reason and in seconds both, the magician and I, were dancing under the harmonic notes of a sweetened melody

    41. who took sex breaks in an upstairs bedroom several times a day? The reigning rhetoric


    42. It proved to be complete and utter rhetoric


    43. He wouldn‘t have to do it this way…‖ Can‘s monotone was gathering force but his rhetoric smacked of disjointed fatalism rather than action


    44. Jensen's rhetoric was rudely interrupted by the blare of an air horn


    45. Much of the rhetoric we are hearing from the Conservatives these days has to do with voiding that provision although they have not yet succeeded


    46. Shut Up and Show Them the Code": RMS's rhetoric is very se-


    47. also helpful in tracing the evolution of Stallman's rhetoric


    48. The anti-gay rhetoric heard by Zach was likely the


    49. The tone as well as the words of Velayati told Obama that this was more than just rhetoric


    50. The indomitable courage of Man and his determination to defend his hearth and home, or the selfless love of brother for brother, still existed but more often than not, these noble sentiments were cheapened and suborned as empty politician’s rhetoric











































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    Synonyms for "rhetoric"

    rhetoric empty talk empty words hot air palaver grandiloquence grandiosity magniloquence ornateness bombast verbosity bravado oration wordiness flatulence expressiveness elocution articulation delivery discourse

    "rhetoric" definitions

    using language effectively to please or persuade


    high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation


    loud and confused and empty talk


    study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)