rhetoric
Example Sentences
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Demonstrators expressed outrage at what many residents described as threatening and imperialistic rhetoric.
From Salon
“I am going to use the appropriations process,” Levin said, adding that he would “continue to focus on the guardrails, regardless of the rhetoric.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Our clients, both the housed and unhoused communities at large, were promised more than aspirational rhetoric, Your Honor,” their attorney Elizabeth Mitchell said in her opening statement.
From Los Angeles Times
“While prices are in decline today on some relaxation in U.S. rhetoric, the next leg up may be in a matter of days.”
Amid true danger in intractable hot spots, this is rhetoric for the sake of bravado.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
