Sentences with phrase «rhetorical device because»

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.

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So the theme of the «great surprise,» far from a rhetorical device as Stendahl terms it (7:794), is in fact the point of the passage: the righteous are commended precisely because they acted humanely without knowledge of Jesus» presence and therefore without the calculating attitude Matthew attributes to the Pharisees.

It will not do to employ the dubious rhetorical device of declaring that the other party must be wrong because I am right.

We consider such references to be the real «rhetorical devices» because they obscure the key scientific issue: whether this critical component of the earth's biosphere will cause significant and destructive global warming.