Sentences with word «rhetor»

If we make performance do as much work for us as it is capable of doing, we not only reach a fuller understanding of our roles as rhetors and rhetoricians but we may also discover a stronger sense of agency.

Classical rhetors chased kairos; trained for it,» he explains.

The Isthmian games were held barely ten miles from the city and attracted not only athletes but oral poets, rhetors, and singers anxious to build reputations for themselves.

Athens relied on logos or rhetor (that is, the word or the art of persuasion).

If so, Friedersdorf may have succeeded as a rhetor, but for a reason that bodes ill for any longer - term attempt to heal the divisions of this election, regardless of its outcome.

It was when he was serving as the rhetor of Milan, Italy, in A.D. 387 that Augustine was convicted, converted and baptized under the ministry of Ambrose.

We are all rhetors.