Sentences with phrase «rhetoricians call»

Posted by Jackie1776 on October 19, 2009 at 10:56 am permalink Reply students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos — assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.

About this blog About my company, Brazen Careerist Penelopes guide to starting a blog The Internet has created a generation of great writers Posted to: College students Diversity Journalism October 19th, 2009 Del.icio.us 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.

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.

Not exact matches

As the Roman rhetorician Quintilian shrewdly observed, one of the best strategies for assuaging the anxieties of an audience is what he calls concessum non datum.

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.»