rhetoric
Example Sentences
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Roosevelt’s challenge to Wall Street, he writes, “was largely a bully pulpit affair, with rhetoric exceeding action.”
Even within France, reactions to her death reflect a spectrum: President Emmanuel Macron called her a “legend of the century,” while others criticized the harm of her rhetoric.
From Salon
They added that they "oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people" and "pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence".
From BBC
Health officials are warning of a spike in measles cases across parts of the United States as anti-vaccine rhetoric gains traction, fueled in part by high-profile figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
From Salon
“Hence, accompanying BoJ rhetoric is therefore where the ‘action’ arguably resides,” the head of Macro Research for Asia ex-Japan says in an email.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.