Sentences with phrase «rhetorical sleight»

There's a little rhetorical sleight of hand in this statement (which I'm guilty of on occasion in my haste to get a post finished).

If you hold other goals for schooling (e.g., workforce readiness) then it is rhetorical sleight of hand.

Suspecting a rhetorical sleight of hand, the Pharisee hedges his bet: «I suppose the one for whom he canceled the greater debt.»