rhetorician

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In conversation with sociologist and Hamilton University President Stephen Pepper, Obama, ever the master rhetorician, said:

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2025

Johnson the undergraduate classicist, Eton rhetorician and middlebrow biographer was fond of making quotations, stitching together attitudes and throwing out highfalutin references to fascinate and flatter down-home audiences.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

But that’s not to say that this doubting 1956 novel should be completely separated from the rhetorician, who spoke with such clarity and assurance at the Cambridge Union in 1965.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2019

Franklin was a gifted rhetorician and singer, and he prospered as the pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2018

And the orator need know nothing of medicine himself, hmm? socrates: Then, when the rhetorician is more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge?

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith