Sentences with phrase «good 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....
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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.
In spite of the best efforts of rhetoricians, communication scholars, anthropologists and folklorists, «performance» is conventionally but narrowly associated with theatrical imagery.
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.
Nothing is better founded than the famous aphorism of rhetoricians: The perfection of art consists in concealing art.
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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