Sentences with phrase «of rhetorical flourish»

Or was that more of a 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.

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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.

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.

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

«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 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.»

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.