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

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

His most important tool, as a scientist and rhetorician, would be simplicity.

From Slate • May 17, 2017

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