Sentences with phrase «cappadocian rhetorician»

Political theorists, rhetoricians and historians have grappled with this exact problem since the rise of the «demagogue» in Athens in 429 B.C., when Pericles» death created a vacuum for «unofficial» leaders of the people to rise to power.

It is easy to be manipulated by stylists, unless one has substantial knowledge of the texts on which rhetoricians draw.

For Dale Patrick, another of Muilenburg's students, and Allen Scult, a rhetorician, the question of audience becomes more central.

Second, Kennedy engages the text as a rhetorician, so his commentary is quite unlike those we often use in preaching.

His Confessions serve as an artful self - presentation designed to bring readers to see the truth about God and our journey to him, not the life - in - full of a North African rhetorician on his way to becoming a bishop.

As the Roman rhetorician Quintilian shrewdly observed, one of the best strategies for assuaging the anxieties of an audience is what he calls concessum non datum.

If we make performance do as much work for us as it is capable of doing, we not only reach a fuller understanding of our roles as rhetors and rhetoricians but we may also discover a stronger sense of agency.

Educators have those that learn from them, otherwise the are just rhetoricians and polemicists.

But all these formulations derive from a God - preoccupied rhetorician.

In spite of the best efforts of rhetoricians, communication scholars, anthropologists and folklorists, «performance» is conventionally but narrowly associated with theatrical imagery.

Today's public references about the rise of the printing press tend to overlook the fact that the printing press shifted authority from church to the individual rhetorician.

All the senses are touched and rewarded [in Rome]: fountains, grottos, balustrades, espaliered orange trees and frescoes were endlessly exploited for their impact on our ears, hands, noses, tongues, and eyes; not for mere delight... but to tap our five senses like a good rhetorician to get at our minds and souls....

The term «informed choice» within a Catholic text is no more to be interpreted as implying the secular rhetoric of choice, than a term used in Catholic teaching like «responsible parenthood» is meant to imply to a secular rhetorician, «contraception».

To the latter group above all belong Gregory of Nazianzus and John Chrysostom both of whom were trained at Athens and Antioch respectively by the best pagan rhetoricians of the day, Himerius and Libanius respectively.

Disraeli and Gladstone had long been rivals and when Gladstone successfully attacked his opponent's policies in Turkey Disraeli turned on him and called him «a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.»

As the author of II Peter claims, the apostles did not proclaim the power and presence of their Lord by relying on myths such as those employed by rhetoricians (1:16).

Greek rhetoricians employed the expressions used in Hebrews to indicate transitions, for example «about this we have much to say..»

As a rhetorician, Salazar lays particular emphasis on the importance of naming with precision; ultimately those in power are those in charge of language.

By the way, Smith - the - rhetorician never disappeared when Smith - the - moral - philosopher and Smith - the - economist came to the fore.

He was a model of progressivism and a gifted rhetorician.

«Rhetoricians and journalists can accuse people of playing Frankenstein, but it's a little too easy.

And when rhetoricians spoke of inventio, they meant the first step in constructing an argument: an inventory of your mind's treasury of knowledge — your database of reading, which you can accumulate only through slow, deliberate study.

I am a very bullish proponent of self - publishing, and futurologist of publishing, and as such nothing irritates me more than other proponents of self - publishing and futurologists using arguments that beg, borrow, and steal, every weapon in the rhetorician's armoury.

«Weems has long been one of our most effective visual and verbal rhetoricians.

Both were aspiring poets to begin with; Rosenberg had a snappy prose style but Greenberg was a master rhetorician and he certainly did make a profession of being an art critic, and therefore became a model for the professionals who emerged in the 1960s — young art historians, mostly.

The first major retrospective of her work, organized by Frist Center curator Katherine Delmez, is a long - overdue look at an artist that the New York Times» Holland Cotter has described as «one of our most effective visual and verbal rhetoricians.»

«Longinus, the first - century Roman rhetorician, defined the sublime as what bowls over a crowd.

> [W] e should look upon speech and action in a human being as persuasive, as expressive, as being used in the light of the orator, rhetorician, propagandist, etc. wishes them to be seen.

Harré's proposes that we model man as a rhetorician:

Some highly trained and competent rhetoricians here look at the field and fail to see the flow.

Now I have answered your question, however given that you have seen fit to descend to childishness «Dikranaway», it seems that you are just another of the blogsphere rhetoricians.

This month, we're talking with George Campbell (1719 — 1796), the Scottish rhetorician and professor of divinity.

Nothing is better founded than the famous aphorism of rhetoricians: The perfection of art consists in concealing art.

Modern scholars naturally can't hope to replicate classical - era rhetoricians» contemporaneous observations about what seemed to be persuasive millennia ago.

5 That observation, as applied to what students learn about persuasion, reflects the undeniable fact that many persuasive techniques stem in some way or another from the teaching of classical rhetoricians.

22 In doing so, they combine insights from both classical and contemporary rhetoricians with lessons from contemporary persuasion science, emphasizing cognitive and social psychology.23 Lucy Jewell has looked at classical rhetorical categories through the cognitive science lenses of categorization theory and information processing.

And yet most contemporary rhetoricians, including those who teach legal persuasion, undoubtedly do not regard themselves as moral instructors.

Put simply, like the many generations before ours who have looked to the classical rhetoricians for guidance in how to construct powerful arguments, our field collectively believes that these approaches work.

Aristotle, however, defended rhetoric, arguing that a rhetorician attempts to persuade not only by appeals to the emotions (pathos), but also by appeals to logic (logos) and by demonstrating an ethical character (ethos).

Moreover, a genre is, to evoke rhetorician Lloyd Bitzer, «an invited response to a rhetorical situation.»

Thompson writes that, «Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos — assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.

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