Sentences with phrase «public rhetoric»

This, it seems to me, is the heart of the matter when we consider religious discourse as public rhetoric.

The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more religion in the schools.

Though promising, the literature on public rhetoric is not what I wish to consider here.4 I wish to focus instead on the possibility of mining recent works in the field of literary criticism for some insights into the structure of religious discourse.

But when religious discourse enters the public sphere — when it becomes public rhetoric — we confront another, perhaps equally compelling, reason for trying to understand it.

Efforts have been made to suggest ways in which public rhetoric may differ in stable and unstable settings.

A lack of access to information and the openly anti-Germany public rhetoric in the US revived her emotional ties to her homeland during a moment of political crisis.

According to my theory, that conflict sort - of passed the proximity test, the strong probability of success was clearly correct, and the deployment of the Falklands Task Force in what was the first British television war, combined with Thatcher's ebullient public rhetoric, left the public in no doubt of the Government's commitment to the cause.

Only after I had begun to teach 30 years ago did public rhetoric begin to give even lip service to the notion that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, makers of their own personal marks on the world.

«Too often public rhetoric pits charters and public schools against each other, when really all we care about is better opportunities for our kids.

The Turnbull Government should not be constrained by the rhetoric of the Abbott ministers, who encumbered themselves to positions while in opposition then they could not divorce themselves of such public rhetoric.

So back in 1980 she offered a comprehensive picture of neighbourly citizenship that is unmatched in contemporary public rhetoric.

As for analysis, Mark Thompson wrote a brilliant column on public rhetoric, populism, and «authenticism» throughout history and how they were revealed in the 2016 campaign; David Fahrenthold did some stellar gritty, shoe - leather reporting on President - elect Trump's philanthropy; Maureen Dowd wrote on the campaign's «fear and insecurity»; and Molly Ball wrote on the principles and posturing of Ted Cruz.

Simcha Felder, a Democrat from Brooklyn, sits with the Republican conference, and the G.O.P. has continued an alliance with the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, which often backs it on legislation and in public rhetoric.

Netflix has indeed been ratcheting down its public rhetoric from some time now.

Second, because there probably have been other times in our history — before and immediately after the Civil War, plus the Depression and New Deal — when political lines were drawn as sharply and public rhetoric was as combatively partisan.

It is absurd to think that those immigrants and their families will somehow be immune to the problems faced by low - skill Americans of every race and ethnic background — and yet the public rhetoric of both parties seems based on that absurdity.

19) Is the church uncritically adopting the public rhetoric about the so - called «digital revolution»?

But, in the public rhetoric of democracy, vested interests are typically couched in terms of the general welfare.

We have created a public rhetoric about democracy anchored in technological mathematics, not in human understanding or cultural interpretation — not even in civil discourse.

His public rhetoric has become more boldly Christian.

Nevertheless, it seems to me that the study of public rhetoric can advance by following some of the clues suggested by this reading of Frye and Suleiman.

He has a great deal of fun suggesting that public rhetoric should not be ironist even in «the ideal liberal society.»

What I find disappointing about many studies of public rhetoric is (a) their tendency to focus only on content, rather than the form or structure of discourse, (b) their tendency to thematize this content, and (c) their tendency to regard these themes as reflections, or reinforcements, of collective values — which apparently lie hidden somewhere in the subjectivity of the collective conscience.

Of course, Obama and Trump are characterized by wholly different domestic agendas, political leadership styles and public rhetoric, but they are also both US presidents, who govern the leading economic and military global power, confronted by largely the same foreign policy problems and endowed with the same bureaucratic structures and military capabilities.

The administration and Entergy have been in closed - door talks for months, but the public rhetoric concerning the fate of the plant — which employs 600 and contributes $ 17 million in taxes to area municipalities — has been tense, with both sides sniping at each other.

ALBANY — While Gov. Andrew Cuomo places an ever - greater emphasis on gender inequality in his public rhetoric, women still occupy a relatively small percentage of his administration's top jobs.

The conversation behind the scenes does not reflect the public rhetoric, he concluded.

Mollen, according to the memo, was especially angry at what he said was the «dichotomy» between the «private assurances and public rhetoric» of Cuomo and Schneiderman.

But as Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon explains, the public rhetoric is not matched by conversation behind the scenes.

We need to replace fossil fuels in a hurry, here in Europe, and this has little to do with climate but a lot — in public rhetoric - with the «global warming «threat.

Instead, Spielberg and writer Tony Kushner («Munich»)-- drawing on a book by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin — delight in the backroom wrangling and public rhetoric that in 1865 led to the 13th Amendment to the US constitution, outlawing slavery.

The apolitical perspective of Aine which dominates the film allows us to see past the intransigent ideological positions of both sides to a more fragile humanity that is normally lost amidst all the public rhetoric.

By March of 2016, education reformers had toned down their public rhetoric and goals, emphasizing that they'd support expanding all types of high - quality schools, not just charters.

As David Berliner and Bruce Biddle did almost 20 years ago, she argues that the public rhetoric of school failure is a distortion of the record that underestimates the successes of public schools and misidentifies their problems.

== > «Oh good, I'm glad to see you are concerned with her public rhetoric potentially being in contradiction with her science.»

As a white man, part of me recognizes where this is coming from because sometimes the public rhetoric feels like it's beating up on men, on white people, on however you're categorized.

Justin King is a writer and scholar of environmental and public rhetoric.