Sentences with phrase «rhetorical power»

Then the move from outside the church to inside the church would perhaps have more rhetorical power.

But whereas Reaganism gave real power to corporations, it gave only rhetorical power to communities.

In one sense, their use constitutes one more form of accountability, as those politicians who like to draw their moral and rhetorical power from religious traditions must do so at the cost of being judged by those very traditions.

A critic of Fried's rare rhetorical power could make such claims sound persuasive then.

She has Chu's intelligence, but far more rhetorical power and plenty of experience dealing with the rough battles surrounding energy choices.

[1] Pickens» rhetorical powers are considerable, but in this case his grasp of economic history was not.

For Leff, readers «can attest to the rhetorical power of this blend,» of mixing «playful attacks against the professional and philosophical pursuits (but not the persons)» of the prosecutors, including the powerful Cato, «deadly serious emotional appeals,» and «deft maneuvering around the specific legal issues.»

And when it is thus qualified, it loses all of its rhetorical power and simply looks... well, ridiculous.

What do they make of «Nova» on television, of Carl Sagan's rhetorical powers to reinterpret the world in which humans live?

But it came to seem to us formal and arid in comparison with the historical richness, rhetorical power, and practical implications with which feminists clothed their similar convictions.

But Peck uses 30 pages of notes that Baldwin left behind as the jumping - off point for a vivid portrait, one that reminds us of his rhetorical power and devastating moral clarity.

Spielberg and Kushner may portray him as a troubled family man and a pragmatic political operator, but his rhetorical powers are so prodigious that he's never quite a human being.

You can like them on Facebook and follow her personal blog, The Rhetorical Gamer to learn more about the rhetorical power of games.

Pope.L has a knack for drawing out the scatological qualities of gestural painting, the abject potential of collage, and the rhetorical power of color to expose the psychosexual substrate of American racism.

At impressive locations he plays with the rhetorical power of this traditional retaliation, whipping nature, defying its power, until he is exhausted.

At impressive locations he plays with the rhetorical power of this traditional retaliation, whipping nature, defying its power, until he is exhausted.

The rhetorical power of the consensus flows not from its content, but from the fact of its existence.