Sentences with phrase «for rhetorical flourishes»

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.

Not exact matches

With some admirable rhetorical flourishes, Gov. Jerry Brown's State of the State speech on January 24th celebrated the opportunities ahead for California — that is, corporate opportunities, and opportunities for the owners of those corporations.

But waiting for Danny to complete his rhetorical motif with a flourish of triadic structure, the hall was left hanging.

Despite some early rhetorical flourishes and political posturing, the Coalition has maintained strong support for the core elements of national schooling policy.

Perhaps this «Conference on Planetary Emergencies» will result in something other than yet another extensive production of rhetorical flourishes and other forms of ever so lyrical «chin music» that we have heard for so long and come to see as nothing more than a litany of unending substitutes for what is needed in our time: action on the real threats to human and environmental health.

I don't read her work for literary style and rhetorical flourishes but for the facts.