rhetorician
Example Sentences
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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
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
Here’s a man who – agreeing with the 17th-century rhetorician John Bulwer that gesture is “the palm and crown of eloquence” – really speaks with his hands.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2016
What Disraeli said of Gladstone was also true of Churchill: he was “a sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
