Sentences with phrase «soaring rhetoric of»

She also deflated the soaring rhetoric of those who talk about NCLB as an historic shift because it has finally shone light on the kids left behind (though she also leads one to conclude that she might actually want stronger national tests than she outlined earlier):

In the new move, Cuomo will be combining budget details with the more soaring rhetoric of a State of the State speech, which is normally used by governors to outline new programs in broader strokes.

In the end however, it is Childs's own fresh perspective that claims attention, sometimes yielding sober analysis and sometimes (as in chapters 24 - 27) the soaring rhetoric of passionate exposition.

Not exact matches

A soaring piece of rhetoric, as the deafening noise of the jet engines roar over the meadow, but also an unfortunate piece of rhetoric.

Local politics doesn't have the soaring rhetoric or emotion of national politics.

He was not charged with any wrongdoing and his name was not mentioned once during the last day of the nearly eight - week trial, but Cuomo nonetheless now finds himself with a dent in his longtime soaring rhetoric about how his administration brought a new level of cleanliness to a tarnished state government in Albany.

Despite years of soaring rhetoric, not only has he failed to bring corruption to heel as repeatedly promised, he has become the poster child for it.

«The rhetoric might be promising, but the reality is that children's centres have closed and the cost of childcare has soared,» she said last week.

I was once told, years ago, that I «couldn't build a small house» because the neighbors (who never came forth and were never named) would object; that in an area of 250K overpriced, oversized, lawyer foyer houses, my little house would «reduce property values»; this would be code for «we can't charge you enough for property taxes...» Forget that I owned the land, forget that we've been sold a line about «freedom» complete with soaring rhetoric and waving flags our whole lives, buy a piece of land and want to build something on it that isn't «code», isn't the «norm» and all of a sudden you're a hippy rebel whacko.

And that's all the Senator said about her — a jab at her article «s soaring rhetoric, minus any accusation of her being a Marxist - type.

And while president Obama took the oval office last night to deliver a speech chock full of soaring rhetoric, many of the hard facts about the spill weren't covered.

Great speeches are great not just because of their soaring rhetoric, their stirring ideals, and their inspirational calls to action.