Sentences with phrase «for rhetorical effect»

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.

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

Or maybe it was made for rhetorical effect.

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

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.

Not exact matches

The last thing the philosopher should be is an aloof onlooker or a rhetorical cheerleader, for «without the knowledge of actual conditions and of relations of cause and effect, any values that we set up as ends are bare ideals in the sense in which ideal» means utopian, without means for its realization» (JDE 18).

Ironically, by raising the specter of elitism for the sake of rhetorical effect, Tooley may actually create, or at least contribute to, the conditions for Evangelical Protestant vulnerability to the problems he denounces.

I ask students to experiment with at least three sentences in an essay by trying a different syntax pattern, rhetorical device, or possibly use punctuation for effect.

For maximum rhetorical effect, combine good will with sincerity.

Not surprisingly, today I read an editorial by Mark Milke in the «Calgary Herald», exploiting this weakness for maximum 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.