Sentences with word «rhetorician»

In spite of the best efforts of rhetoricians, communication scholars, anthropologists and folklorists, «performance» is conventionally but narrowly associated with theatrical imagery.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35 — c. 100) was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.

Thus, we have some very good, very well - paid rhetoricians who frame the message in the most effective way.

Thompson writes that, «Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos — assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.

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Why should the multitude of forms and moods within biblical literature and the multitude of needs in the congregation be brought together in one unvarying mold, and that copied from Greek rhetoricians centuries ago?

«Weems has long been one of our most effective visual and verbal rhetoricians.

His Confessions serve as an artful self - presentation designed to bring readers to see the truth about God and our journey to him, not the life - in - full of a North African rhetorician on his way to becoming a bishop.

All the senses are touched and rewarded [in Rome]: fountains, grottos, balustrades, espaliered orange trees and frescoes were endlessly exploited for their impact on our ears, hands, noses, tongues, and eyes; not for mere delight... but to tap our five senses like a good rhetorician to get at our minds and souls....

Greek rhetoricians employed the expressions used in Hebrews to indicate transitions, for example «about this we have much to say..»

Great rhetoricians get it exactly right.

It is easy to be manipulated by stylists, unless one has substantial knowledge of the texts on which rhetoricians draw.

Educators have those that learn from them, otherwise the are just rhetoricians and polemicists.

In mid-twentieth-century America, as men of letters, social reformers, and political rhetoricians were transformed into «intellectuals» (itself a fascinating story), mainline Protestants came to play that role as well, and did so in theological as well as sociological and philosophical terms.

Yet the message was clear: the Cappadocian rhetorician was most certainly not welcome.

Today's public references about the rise of the printing press tend to overlook the fact that the printing press shifted authority from church to the individual rhetorician.

The term «informed choice» within a Catholic text is no more to be interpreted as implying the secular rhetoric of choice, than a term used in Catholic teaching like «responsible parenthood» is meant to imply to a secular rhetorician, «contraception».

To the latter group above all belong Gregory of Nazianzus and John Chrysostom both of whom were trained at Athens and Antioch respectively by the best pagan rhetoricians of the day, Himerius and Libanius respectively.

Disraeli and Gladstone had long been rivals and when Gladstone successfully attacked his opponent's policies in Turkey Disraeli turned on him and called him «a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.»

As the author of II Peter claims, the apostles did not proclaim the power and presence of their Lord by relying on myths such as those employed by rhetoricians (1:16).

The perennial echo of this problem was picked up by the then president of the Greek Republic who, in defence of the Albanian student, quoted a line from a famous work by the great Athenian rhetorician Isocrates.

[1] He was described in an obituary by the Conservative journalist Patrick Cosgrave as «Between Harold Wilson and Tony Blair, the only possible Labour Party leader of whom a Conservative leader had cause to walk in fear» and, along with Enoch Powell, «the most captivating rhetorician of the age».

Mr. Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore), a slick rhetorician, has mastered the sort of intellectual smoke and mirrors that impresses bored university dons.

And when rhetoricians spoke of inventio, they meant the first step in constructing an argument: an inventory of your mind's treasury of knowledge — your database of reading, which you can accumulate only through slow, deliberate study.

Both were aspiring poets to begin with; Rosenberg had a snappy prose style but Greenberg was a master rhetorician and he certainly did make a profession of being an art critic, and therefore became a model for the professionals who emerged in the 1960s — young art historians, mostly.

This month, we're talking with George Campbell (1719 — 1796), the Scottish rhetorician and professor of divinity.

He was a model of progressivism and a gifted rhetorician.

«Longinus, the first - century Roman rhetorician, defined the sublime as what bowls over a crowd.

The first major retrospective of her work, organized by Frist Center curator Katherine Delmez, is a long - overdue look at an artist that the New York Times» Holland Cotter has described as «one of our most effective visual and verbal rhetoricians.»

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Nothing is better founded than the famous aphorism of rhetoricians: The perfection of art consists in concealing art.

Political theorists, rhetoricians and historians have grappled with this exact problem since the rise of the «demagogue» in Athens in 429 B.C., when Pericles» death created a vacuum for «unofficial» leaders of the people to rise to power.

Hart is as skilled a rhetorician as he is a theologian, and is able to deliver a punchy verbal image of the God who transcends all images.

For Dale Patrick, another of Muilenburg's students, and Allen Scult, a rhetorician, the question of audience becomes more central.

Second, Kennedy engages the text as a rhetorician, so his commentary is quite unlike those we often use in preaching.

Before the era of Faulkner and his contemporaries, southerners were rhetoricians, speaking and doing battle for the local community.

If not a philosopher, Tyrannus had to be a rhetorician.

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.