Sentences with phrase «with rhetorical»

Amazing what can be achieved with rhetorical gymnastics.

It's a perfect career for those of you with rhetorical flair, top - notch networking skills and a flashy smile.

The long - dead brains of history are still quite handy when you need to brandish something with rhetorical flourish — Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Milton, Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill are some obvious choices.

A few examples: Kathryn Stanchi has explored a number of these topics in depth, such as her influential article that explores social science research on persuasion as applied to how legal advocates should present a court with negative information about their client orposition.21 She and Linda Berger have recently published a textbook combiningtheir interests in science and persuasion, setting themselves the ambitious goal of «unit [ing] persuasion science with rhetorical theory and the real - life practice of persuasion.»

This may sound a trite piece of advice, but success in a criminal trial is not so much to do with rhetorical flair or Hollywood style revelations, than well - focussed, thorough and detailed preparation.

Duke Energy has distinguished itself from other polluters with rhetorical commitments to tackling global warming and implementing clean energy, but stops short of meaningful action.

Being a committed, consistent climate hawk will occasionally put one at odds with the rhetorical tropes, policy preferences, and priorities of environmentalism.

Our Man from Mexico strikes again, this time with a rhetorical question that implies David Hume, the father figure of empiricism, is not an empiricist.

«I continue with a rhetorical question for which we do not, and can not, have a definitive answer.

And what is with the rhetorical «Surely you are not arguing...».

The enduring truth is that over time, since the AGW temperature signal is a secular rising trend, eventually the signal will emerge from the noise, and it will be harder to argue with the rhetorical wording alone.

But I find it hard to reconcile the group's financial support for Climate Depot with its rhetorical embrace of Richard Smalley's vision of a sustainable energy future — which was premised on an inevitable transition away from carbon - rich fuels and included a modest tax on liquid fuels.

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

Clever wordsmiths and litigators thrive on setting traps with rhetorical bait which they perceive to be luring the «unsuspecting» scientist into revealing «weakness» in their position.

While I see the educational sincerity behind this decision, these galleries come across as pedantic and simplistic, and they are laced with the rhetorical stuff that really annoyed these guys in the first place.

It wasn't until after Life magazine ran a profile of Pollock in the August 8 issue — with the rhetorical subhead, «Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?»

My first encounter with the rhetorical power of games came in the early 90s.

A new study finds that the literature on dog bites written by human health care professionals is rife with distortions and errors, and laden with rhetorical devices that mischaracterize dog behavior and grossly overstate the actual risk of dog bite injuri...

Custom Paper Writing Words — professional writer's communication tools — are selected and ordered to inform the paper reader about the investigation rather than to impress him with rhetorical flourishes.

Jami Gold shows how to strengthen your writing with rhetorical devices, Melissa Donovan improves writing through poetry, Janice Hardy lists 3 easy edits for better -LSB-...]

Since the law the state is using to take over the schools was passed in 1999, Larsen ended his blog with a rhetorical question: «Is twelve years too long to wait?

Listen to J4J's commentary: «To justify this radical transformation... the proponents of these policies have taken to talking about them as matters of racial and social justice... As the residents of the communities most affected by school closures and charter school expansion, we must take issue with this rhetorical description.

Since I'm a therapist myself, he'd taunt me with rhetorical questions like, «Aren't you supposed to help me?

Clever wordsmiths and litigators thrive on setting traps with rhetorical bait which they perceive to be luring the «unsuspecting» scientist into revealing «weakness» in their position.

When Trent Lott made ostensibly prosegregationist remarks a year ago that eventually led to his downfall as Senate Majority Leader, an attack ad quickly appeared on the Internet that quoted President Bush as saying, «I have confidence in him as the Republican leader, unquestionably,» and ended with the rhetorical «Do YOU have confidence in the Bush - Lott White House?»

At the same time, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour continues to win back supporters who had defected to UKIP with its rhetorical radicalism.

There's no walking back from something like that, and while he'll try to mask the surrender with rhetorical filigree, it remains that it was this weekend when the celebrated Cuomo credibility disintegrated.

Liberal Conspiracy doesn't even bother with the rhetorical questioning, adopting straightforward ridicule:

Here's his inauguration speech with rhetorical devices annotated, starting from just after he's dispensed with the formalities.

Consider the post, 5 Cool Things No One Ever Told You About Nighttime Breastfeeding, which claims that the number 1 coolest thing about nighttime breastfeeding is «breastfeeding moms actually get MORE sleep than their formula - feeding counterparts,» and concludes with the rhetorical question: «Did you ever think, when you hear your baby rouse at 2:00 am, that they are actually giving you the gift of MORE sleep...?»

As homebirth advocates have been forced to reconcile themselves to what everyone else has known all along — homebirth increases the risk of perinatal and neonatal death — they've been experimenting with rhetorical strategies to diminish the significance of these deaths.

You've scored down all those who have disagreed with your rhetorical question and have only marked up Sohara who agreed with you.

Miola's critique of my discussion of John Shakespeare's «spiritual testament» is awash with rhetorical sophistry designed to undermine its objective importance.

Just going to your 1st reply to deal with your rhetorical flourish.

Safranski summarizes Schleiermacher's «capacious» position with a rhetorical question («Was not Romantic poetry with its sense of the uncanny and the wondrous already directly religious?»).

We conclude this first half of our discussion with a rhetorical question.

that the canonical ones begin with the rhetorical question, «Which of you...?»

One of the crucial assumptions Pascal makes, one that is not really defended so much as pounded out with a rhetorical hammer, is that we all must wager, and that the stakes are set ahead of time.

I am suggesting, however, that there is a problem with a rhetorical cycle that seems to reward an uncompromising, absolutist approach to public life, for it results in as much political disengagement as political mobilization.

This literature contains some stimulating intellectual responses as well as several ad hominem pieces which are more concerned with rhetorical flourish and pietisms than critical reflection.1 There are some who want to rid the church of process theology because it is too philosophical, hence unappreciative of things which are distinctively religious.

He might prefer to respond to any US concessions with some rhetorical graciousness toward Trump and more provocations against his neighbors.

After listing Charlemagne's previous conquests as evidence of his power, he introduces the main theme with a rhetorical question: «Under these conditions, was it not to be expected» that the king should add a more general title commensurate with his authority?

With the rhetorical conviction of the revolutionary, he prophetically wrote:

He doesn't appear to have any deliberate goals with his rhetorical mood swings; rather, they are knee - jerk responses to particular situations and audiences.

Not exact matches

And the author follows with a layer - by - layer set of innuendos larded with arcane technical jargon and rhetorical questions to advance his deep and dark accusation.

Even a leader with perfect diction and a background in rhetorical strategy can't hope to win the influence of his or her peers through speeches and arguments alone.

Another section bombards readers with obscure references to Greek rhetorical terms such as apomnemonysis, homoioteleuton and epitrochasmus.

The challenger would have to argue that Trump has made the country a laughingstock that doesn't get respect anymore, Trump does not seem to win, Trump seems to dither with indecision when faced with difficult national security choices, Trump lets other countries attack America without responding, and Trump ties himself in rhetorical knots to avoid naming obvious enemies.

And sure her speech was well written and peppered with classic, effective rhetorical devices.

For me, these are rhetorical questions written with a sense of sickening dread; others will doubtlessly repeat them in earnest and with angry, partisan vigour.