Sentences with phrase «many 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.

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.

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.»

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

Even those who gravitate toward harsh criticism of the Iraq War and of Bush - era American foreign policy do not avail themselves, except in the occasional rhetorical flourish, of the pronouncements of religious authorities.

While he's not exactly invisible in his work, he eschews rhetorical flourish.

Of course, the mystery is hidden underneath this tremendous rhetorical flourish.

Or consider the typically ripe rhetorical flourish with which he concludes his book: «Kansas is ready to lead us singing into the apocalypse.

This literature contains some stimulating intellectual responses as well as several ad hominem pieces which are more concerned with rhetorical flourish and pietisms than critical reflection.1 There are some who want to rid the church of process theology because it is too philosophical, hence unappreciative of things which are distinctively religious.

In the light of this interpretation Paul's final word that love «beareth, believeth, hopeth, endureth all things» is not a rhetorical flourish by - passing logic, but a recognition that there are no bounds to love's participation in the world, its endurance of what has to be endured, its everlastingness.

It is once again apparent from such effective but vacuous rhetorical flourishes that Whitehead holds no clear or systematic concept of «evolution.»

Just going to your 1st reply to deal with your rhetorical flourish.

At one point he introduced a rhetorical flourish with a passing negative reference to John Locke.

Although Marx does so again and again in rhetorical flourishes, «society» can not be seen as an agent.

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.

Cuomo's rhetorical flourish centered on a simple request: all Trump had to do was turn around to read the inscription on the rug in the oval office.

Somehow distance brings out the governor's full range of operatic inflections and rhetorical flourishes that he doesn't deploy effectively in person.

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

Custom Paper Writing Words — professional writer's communication tools — are selected and ordered to inform the paper reader about the investigation rather than to impress him with rhetorical flourishes.

I appreciate the restraint, because hyperbole and grand rhetorical flourishes, as entertaining as they can be, get in the way of seeing clearly.

«There is no apt comparison between the two, and rhetorical flourishes such as this set back the serious research surrounding online lending that is warranted,» Cornelius Hurley, the executive director of the Online Lending Policy Institute, another industry group, said in an email.

«Cuba's Plaza of the Revolution is one such place — a stark, inhospitable arena where all the major political events of the past half - century have been marked by mass choreography, militarized displays and rhetorical flourish.

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.

Looks like Andy Revkin is calling both their BLUFFS plus adding the rhetorical flourish how much difference is there REALLY between their energy positions.

«One single proof» is a deceptive rhetorical flourish used primarily by denialists designed to apparently negate a preponderance of circumstantial evidence by claiming that without a specific key proof, the whole argument is invalid.

This latest missive by FAN is quite clearly merely rhetorical flourishes based on a loose citing of references and appeals to the infallibility of Jim Hansen.

I'm flattered and delighted that my rhetorical flourishes made such a deep impression.

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

Let us leave that as a rhetorical flourish on your part and assume that you understand that changes in CO2 lag temperature in the ice core record by approximately 800 years.

Or was that more of a rhetorical flourish?

I also criticized their suggestion that climate - change skeptics are suffering under a reign of terror similar to that of Soviet geneticists in the Lysenko era; they dismiss my criticism as a «rhetorical flourish.»

Second, Romm makes assertions and rhetorical flourishes but doesn't furnish any proof showing that 450 ppm is necessarily better than 750 ppm.

But Judge Wright is hardly the first to demonstrate his nerd cred with a Spock - inspired rhetorical flourish.

I specifically want to exclude any cases where the matter does involve suspect classifications or fundamental rights, but where the court employs a rhetorical flourish and says «This wouldn't even pass rational review», or otherwise declines to focus primarily on existing triggers of higher - level review.

The long - dead brains of history are still quite handy when you need to brandish something with rhetorical flourish — Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Milton, Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill are some obvious choices.

PM Tsipras is clearly playing a dangerous, high - stakes games, invoking FDR rhetorical flourishes, telling Greeks they have nothing to fear but fear itself.

According to The Guardian, Dr Szoke called last year's Closing the Gap speech «rhetorical flourish», and said the Government had failed to restore funding cuts from 2014.

Not exact matches

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