Sentences with phrase «many rhetorical»

And the author follows with a layer - by - layer set of innuendos larded with arcane technical jargon and rhetorical questions to advance his deep and dark accusation.

There's a lot of hemming and hawing about how Facebook doesn't choose what kinds of information to show you, which of course is factually incorrect, and appears to be mostly a rhetorical dodge in order to get around accusations of favoring certain viewpoints in trending topics.

That's a rhetorical question.

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

Even a leader with perfect diction and a background in rhetorical strategy can't hope to win the influence of his or her peers through speeches and arguments alone.

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.

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.

Never straying too far from his topic — economic development, good; welfare and idleness, evil — he employs a number of rhetorical asides and deadpan irony to keep his audience alert.

When you consciously use silence as a rhetorical device, you'll come across as more self - confident, your message will be more impactful, and your audience will remember more of what you say

Another section bombards readers with obscure references to Greek rhetorical terms such as apomnemonysis, homoioteleuton and epitrochasmus.

is anything but a rhetorical question at many a black church; it's a cultural reality.

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.

These are rhetorical questions.

And sure her speech was well written and peppered with classic, effective rhetorical devices.

My smartass ways were not playing well at my new rural school, where corn - fed country boys were disinclined to rhetorical thrust and parry.

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.

As a scholar of American political rhetoric, I've previously written about the ways that Donald Trump's rhetorical style mirrors that of polarizing figures like George Wallace and Joseph McCarthy.

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.

It also was a rhetorical one: most central banks, including the the Bank of Canada, resort to explicit statements about their policy intentions only in the case of an emergency.

Today, however, the pension managers have a rhetorical comeback.

And, if you ever want to sell your company (trying to be rhetorical here), you need to learn how to share this responsibility and share it well.

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.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean that to be rhetorical or even a provocative question.

Sanders scored a few more rhetorical points than Clinton, frequently drawing rousing applause from his supporters at the Brooklyn Naval Yard.

He doesn't appear to have any deliberate goals with his rhetorical mood swings; rather, they are knee - jerk responses to particular situations and audiences.

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.

This was something of a rhetorical question, since the company had already confirmed the return of the start menu, according to PC World.

It was a rhetorical question.

President Bill Clinton was first introduced to most of America at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, where he gave an interminable, 33 - minute grind that showed none of his later rhetorical flourish.

(Hint: that's a rhetorical question.)

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

In a presentation to the Columbia Business school he asks questions real and rhetorical to keep the audience engaged, and he looks at the next ppt slide briefly then turns to explain the top takeaway vs. the usual verbatim read along that the WSJ dubbed «corporate karaoke!»

It's clear the question was rhetorical.

But recently, as Bernie Sanders has upped his rhetorical attacks against Wall Street, and Clinton's perceived ties to it, Clinton has started to sound like she wouldn't nominate a Wall Streeter either.

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.»

Retiree benefit levels in Chile were not low because of the AFP system, as claimed by many rhetorical commentators.

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

In the closest thing he attempted at a rhetorical flourish, he asserted that government should be «a benign and silent partner» to Canadians going about their economic lives «and not an overbearing behemoth squeezing them at every turn.»

I'd still maintain my general argument that carried interest is an ordinary income, but Franklin has certainly pulled a reliable rhetorical arrow from my quiver.

I won't get to all of them, of course, and I'll avoid the rhetorical ones («How can you be so wrong about everything all the time?!?»).

But you can see that he wields this privilege in some ways as a rhetorical bludgeon.

Finally, illiberal leaders can utilize China as rhetorical alternative to Brussels and the liberal values underpinning the EU.

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.

With her nebulous threat, Notley borrows policy from her opponent Jason Kenney — and rhetorical style from Donald Trump

[4] This is rhetorical judo.

[1] Pickens» rhetorical powers are considerable, but in this case his grasp of economic history was not.

Mexicans are tiring of being Donald Trump's rhetorical target, and as an election looms, critics are aiming to hit back

And the answer to that rhetorical question, of course, is that nonbank companies generally don't get bailed out when the whole thing blows up.

Do you stand behind your «worse than useless» comment or is it a rhetorical flourish?