Best 19 quotes in «rhetorical quotes» category

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this.

When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

I'd rather spend my money on helping humanity than helping the super rich. It's about making the needy our priority as opposed to the greedy. Parsimonious conjecture is merely rhetorical babble.

...if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and generational opportunity. In 1960, the articulate Adlai Stevenson compared his own oratory unfavorably with John F. Kennedy's. "Do you remember," Stevenson said, "that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke,' but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, 'Let us march.' " At this hour, Obama is the Democrats' Demosthenes.

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the rhetorical question

Well," a female voice said. "What have we here?" "Here," Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, "we have a teenager. And she's pissed.

Why do they call it rush hour if no one moves?

All rhetorical questions are accusations.

Bill Knott's poems are . . . rhetorical fluff . . . and fake.

Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.