rhetorical
Example Sentences
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A churchman of exceptional rhetorical skill, Augustine was naturally drawn into doctrinal and intellectual controversies, in which he showed a fearsome determination that his views should win out.
The rhetorical slugfest is growing increasingly ugly to watch.
From Salon
Mr. Speck looks past the rhetorical flourishes to the surprisingly pragmatic and, he argues, even mainstream worldview at the security strategy’s core.
If you throw in the rhetorical brilliance, the heart and the boundless wit that coursed through his greatest works, his pre-eminence is hard to challenge.
After Pericles’ death from plague in 429 B.C., rhetorical and political authority is seized by Cleon, an upstart demagogue who is the “most violent person in Athens” and “the most persuasive.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
