Sentences with phrase «make rhetorical»

Irrespective of the Salby postulation (which, if validated, would make this a rhetorical question), I believe we are unable to answer this question today, despite several alternate hypotheses.

Thanks, On the Internazionale point, the intention was just to make the rhetorical point that «immigrants» only seems to get used generically as a pejorative term, eg in crime reporting, etc..

Those of us who have been trained to make rhetorical peace with the congregation marvel at the freedom of Jesus to preach over their heads, to wound in order to heal, to use their own beloved texts against them.

Perhaps he went to such an extreme to make the rhetorical point that he would follow the historical evidence no matter the theological consequences.

I think d'Souza has an habit of stretching the facts a bit, when doing so will allow him to make a rhetorical point:

They might accuse me of making a rhetorical mountain out of a practical molehill.

Now, what I have referred to before as the something, the force, just waiting to spring on the American Zeitgeist would in the early sixties be given throaty articulation by the courtiers surrounding John F. Kennedy, who, while clearly doing little more than making rhetorical gestures, nevertheless managed to hit the cultural nail squarely on the head.

You seem to be making the rhetorical point that the percentage doesn't matter because it depends on how you define it.

But the most wonderful discovery was that studying this poem made rhetorical analysis finally click for many of my students.

Not exact matches

The challenger would have to argue that Trump has made the country a laughingstock that doesn't get respect anymore, Trump does not seem to win, Trump seems to dither with indecision when faced with difficult national security choices, Trump lets other countries attack America without responding, and Trump ties himself in rhetorical knots to avoid naming obvious enemies.

Paralipsis is a powerful rhetorical device because it can also allow someone to make a false accusation — or spread a false rumor — while skirting consequences.

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

President Trump's Twitter bombs and rhetorical attacks on what he calls the «worst deal ever made» and his administration's vague and confusing proposals have dismayed Canada, which is now exploring backup options.

Her rhetorical style is decidedly not up to Trump's zany standard, but on this day it matched the U.S. president's manner of threat - making that is as ominous as it is vague, and subject to change according to the political whims, or winds.

The only judgement i made is me calling the questions rhetorical?

It doesn't occur to Sheldon or Leslie that words are merely rhetorical weapons to make a physics theory politically or academically dominant.

That even in the aftermath of serious attacks on the homeland, reasonable American willingness to project power abroad would not be fairly criticized when it inevitably made errors and ran into difficulties, but rather be met with a deliberately - stirred anti-war hysteria of breathtaking rhetorical viciousness.

Pawlenty wasted this appeal by resorting to rhetorical and policy gimmicks that made him look like both a phony and a fool.

I also think it is more profitable to acknowledge Cuomo's rhetorical gifts, and analyze the uses he made of them, than to disparage them.

I don't think the various Gospel authors had Jesus asking question to show he did not know, nor to say «my peace is in the questions» but instead as a mere rhetorical tool to make a point and tell what he thought the answers were.

What evidence do you have other than something anecdotal or rhetorical to show that this is prevalent and the pretext not a lie to make women feel afraid of the bogeyman so to speak?

Far from being a rhetorical trope or a philosophical tool, analogy for Przywara is the style of thought that best corresponds to the way in which being makes itself known.

Yes, the SBC formally apologized for its racist origins in 1995, but I wonder how many Southern Baptists have taken the time to really study the sermons and speeches of their predecessors to learn what rhetorical devices and hermeneutical approaches were employed to make so many Christian people so comfortable with that oppression that they formed an entire denomination around it.

It persists in making use of the phrase «death of God,» in spite of its rhetorical color, partly because it is a phrase that can not be adapted to traditional use by the theologians today.

Rhetorical criticism of the Old Testament makes comparisons with writings of the time, but New Testament critics can refer to speeches, letters and the instructional manuals that document the rhetorical cultures of GreeceRhetorical criticism of the Old Testament makes comparisons with writings of the time, but New Testament critics can refer to speeches, letters and the instructional manuals that document the rhetorical cultures of Greecerhetorical cultures of Greece and Rome.

The somewhat rhetorical style of Neville's comments at times makes it difficult to be sure what precisely he wishes to maintain, but it appears that he considers that Hartshorne's metaphysics impoverishes experience» by flattening our experience and solving our problems «with metaphysical necessities» (p. 66).

The prophets often make sweeping statements about social justice, but there are always specific injustices they are trying to combat — sometimes through rhetorical overstatement.

From Peirce's claim that we can make our ideas clear by considering their conceivable practical effects, to James's notion of truth's cash value in experiential terms, to Dewey's own view of the practical character of reality, the message seems to be that philosophy has more to offer than a therapeutic stance toward social issues and a rhetorical presentation of new suggestions.

Learning the style of populist rhetoric may make us as (un) popular as Gingrich or Perry seem to be when they wager in their own campaigns on that trope — but at the end of the day it seems to be a rhetorical and literal trap.

But these quotes should serve as a humbling reminder that rhetorical claims to the Bible's clarity on a subject do not automatically make it so.

He ends with this question: «Can Catholics and other people of good will agree to make abortions rare, and mean it, or will the issue remain a rhetorical ploy Republicans exploit and a moral scandal to which Democrats are blind?»

@bkw, ``... at this point they have become rhetorical because no one has been able to answer them in a way that makes sense...» Ditto.

(35) More concretely, it is the sum total of all the decisions an author has made to externalize his or her subjectivity in a literary work in order to communicate a message: choices of narrator, genre, plotline, characters and characterization, repertoire, and rhetorical strategies.

Anyway, @godless — I have the same questions — at this point they have become rhetorical because no one has been able to answer them in a way that makes sense to me.

One of the crucial assumptions Pascal makes, one that is not really defended so much as pounded out with a rhetorical hammer, is that we all must wager, and that the stakes are set ahead of time.

Preachers who understand that the Word seeks dialogue with the body of the faithful, even in the preparation and delivery of the sermon, will so restructure their sermon preparation regimen and alter their rhetorical strategies that they make room for the whole people of God in the pulpit.

So when Jesus says that we must be born of Water and Spirit, and if you believe and are baptized you will be saved, I agree with you that in a strict sense God does the saving and we need only immerse (baptize) ourselves in the grace he offers us, I believe that the statement Jesus made about marriage to be applicable, «Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate» and echo Peter's rhetorical question, «Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water?

In essence, the rhetorical weight of his argument seems to assume God's existence in the first place, which makes the argument fundamentally circular in nature.

What do they make of «Nova» on television, of Carl Sagan's rhetorical powers to reinterpret the world in which humans live?

Mine was simply a rhetorical question representing a personal belief (unprovable mathematically or otherwise by me, however) that we all intuit or make a leap of faith to some degree regardless of what view we take on the God issue.

In so polarized a time as ours, such divergences are inevitable, and Donald Trump widens them because of his canny rhetorical habit of coining slogans, not making arguments.

If you judged on rhetorical skill, the number of points made or the willingness to engage one's opponent, the Christian would surely have won (as much as one can «win» a never - ending debate).

The distinctiveness of Mahoney's book is the careful rhetorical strategy that he has devised, both to win over skeptical or hostile readers and to make a plausible case for Solzhenitsyn as a political moderate who is neither a Tsarist reactionary nor an Enlightenment liberal.

His elaborate rhetorical education made him easy to understand.

I think I did misread the «half a decade thing» because I've seen that phrasing used elsewhere as a rhetorical move to make an event seem more in the past than it really is.

If Arsenal's * billionaire backer's supported their team more and made it known like Abramovich by putting the money where their mouth is (rhetorical saying) then perhaps talented players wouldn't continue to use arsenal as if we're a stepping stone to go to somewhere else.

Rhetorical question or not: the problem with homebirth is that the information is hidden, glossed over, made out to be false or biased, or otherwise ignored.

With less than half an hour left before the vote, MPs knew no - one inside the chamber was being convinced of anything - despite the almost unprecedented passion and rhetorical strength of the speeches being made.

«For many Americans», Cohen writes, «Romney's rhetorical insistence that he will return responsibilities to the 50 states and reduce the involvement of the federal government in the lives of the American people is what makes his presidency an appealing possibility.»

«Bringing decision - making closer to the people» is a rhetorical claim which does not bear examination.