Sentences with phrase «for rhetorical»

Using all caps is not something either Microstyle or How to Write Short delves into, but its use at the end of a linguistic unit like this is a way of using the ending position of emphasis for rhetorical effect.

For example, people can broaden definitions for rhetorical purposes, or use words metaphorically.

She provides practical advice for each rhetorical task involved in making and writing a decision.

It seems to me the suggestion was intended more for its rhetorical effect than its scientific merit.

In my PhD dissertation, «Avant Le Deluge: An Investigation of Some Neglected Dimensions of Electricity Restructuring in California,» I did proposed a name for this rhetorical phenomenon.

Alternatively, you may be trying to get me to defend an extreme and untenable position for rhetorical gain.

I've learned by repeated observation that people, when «engaged» in adversarial mode, have a truly amazing ability not to hear what their interlocutor is actually attempting to communicate, even as they mine that interlocutor's words for rhetorical advantage.

Whether or not what he said was accurate (and I'm not saying that it isn't a problem if he makes inaccurate statements about climate change), misrepresenting what he said for rhetorical purposes is counterproductive.

Or maybe it was made for rhetorical effect.

Just as the statements that Anthony or Judith make can and should be fairly criticized when they are made for rhetorical and unscientific effect.

No style points here are awarded for rhetorical techniques employed.

Redefining words and labels for rhetorical purposes instead of trying to explain and clarify only leaves people simultaneously confused and suspicious.

There's a name for that rhetorical device, willard can help you.

I've noticed that lots of those lists like that are for rhetorical points in blog discussions more than anything else.

you caricature the tragedy and use it for rhetorical games — poorly, i might add.

These are simply straw men of the crudest sort, trotted out for rhetorical effect.

This site is not the place for rhetorical tricks like strawman arguments.

No doubt you were asking rhetorically, but of course AGW - deniers will only cherry - pick two centuries of climate science for rhetorical ammunition, and dismiss the rest as a plot to impose world soshulizm and pollute our precious bodily fluids.

Is it a substantive study or is it a curiosity designed for its rhetorical use?

A poster giving prompts / starters for rhetorical questions to help children with their writing.

• Make sure that the members of peer review panels are not part of an old - boy network of professional innovators who are likely to take care of their friends and share their biases and their penchant for rhetorical flights of pedagogical fancy.

We aren't here for rhetorical questions.

6:33 and 12:28), where the phrase is required for rhetorical balance — and therefore we may assume that Jesus himself spoke in the main of the Kingdom of God.

Ironically, in calling for a cease fire in the culture wars, the author, a «progressive evangelical,» enters the fray fully armed for rhetorical combat.

They will suppose the word is used now chiefly for rhetorical effect, and that translation into the language of atheistic humanism will be a gain.

Wuellner's stated goal is to examine «the need for rhetorical analysis not only of texts but also of the practices of reading texts.»

Will the black community of tomorrow continue to display the coherence on which King could draw for his rhetorical moment?

Sometimes the modifier «idiosyncratic» is added to «judgments» for rhetorical oomph.

His speech came at the rapid clip of someone accustomed to analyzing language for content only, and at the speed of a very agile mind that didn't have time for rhetorical flourishes.

From the interrobang (a question mark and exclamation point superimposed, to ask a shocking question, proposed in 1962) to the percontation point (a backward question mark, for rhetorical questions, suggested in 1580), new glyphs have arrived and departed.

Many companies have mission statements, and they're handy to reference in all - hands meetings or a quarterly report, but they're more for rhetorical purposes than anything else.

Not exact matches

Secondly, this focus on the middle class isn't an empty rhetorical device but a governing principle for the party as it renews itself.

After Trump signed the order on a Friday night, executives at Starbucks spent the weekend crafting a plan to address employees working in the US and abroad, as well as provide concrete steps beyond rhetorical support for diversity.

Revisit King's rhetorical mastery in his «Letter From a Birmingham Jail,» if only to understand the travesty of the white evangelical embrace of Trumpism, even as this president continues to push for the building of a border wall and the banning of Muslims from entering the U.S.

And such rhetorical contradictions will continue to make it difficult for anyone to predict exactly how he will govern.

As a rhetorical strategy for eroding trust in the media, the term dates back to the end of the 19th century.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)-- Rhetorical skirmishes continued Tuesday in North Carolina over a law limiting protections for LGBT people, as Democrats criticized a Republican's plea to «keep our state straight.»

Trump has trained his rhetorical fire on the entire tech industry, but he's singled out Apple for a boycott.

For me, these are rhetorical questions written with a sense of sickening dread; others will doubtlessly repeat them in earnest and with angry, partisan vigour.

Asking a search marketer for his opinion on Google's Quality Score (QS) is pretty much a rhetorical question — we all dislike it.

He has known Trump for decades — his bomb - throwing rhetorical style can at times mirror that of the president — and he became an aggressive surrogate for the celebrity businessman from the early days of his insurgent presidential campaign.

He has known Trump for decades - his bomb - throwing rhetorical style can at times mirror that of the president - and he became an aggressive surrogate for the celebrity businessman from the early days of his insurgent presidential campaign.

The nation doesn't need a leader throwing rhetorical bombs from the luxury of his golf resort at at a mayor stuck in a humanitarian crisis begging for the help her constituents need to survive.

It went on more or less like this for eight of the first 10 questions: a rhetorical stalemate, or rather a restating of the general positions.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

The final call in the Gulf resolution for an immediate cease - fire and a demand that the UN be in charge of the settlement — rather muted after the rhetorical fire — was premised on the beliefs that military force could not deal with the crisis, that sanctions could have been and could still be effective, and that the war would have destructive global impact.

For Leff, readers «can attest to the rhetorical power of this blend,» of mixing «playful attacks against the professional and philosophical pursuits (but not the persons)» of the prosecutors, including the powerful Cato, «deadly serious emotional appeals,» and «deft maneuvering around the specific legal issues.»

Tallulah... yeah, I know... it was a rhetorical question, as I know there is absolutely no proof whatsoever for the belief in any god.

Liberals indulge in periodic public rhetorical displays of «So - to - Speak» support for the Constitution, and they like well - told history or biography about the Founders as well as anyone, but they aren't as interested in treating them as a guide.

Giambrone's claims that «Justice Scalia's legal theory has no ultimate framework for holding the government accountable before God» and that he sees natural law as merely a «rhetorical cover for the preferred moral agenda of any given judge.»