rhetorical
Example Sentences
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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.”
That was a trick, right there — a bit of rhetorical tomfoolery to make you think the impassioned public testimony and the Oxford comma were connected.
From Seattle Times
In other words, the very name of the bill is a sort of rhetorical sleight-of-hand.
From Salon
Trump has used his rhetorical power to make people believe what is demonstrably false and DeSantis has found ways to leverage the power of government to change the system on the ground.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
