McEwen's paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations present subtle re-workings of the familiar signs and objects that surround us in our daily lives, his understated but complex rhetoric manipulating time, space, language, and images to alternately esoteric and persuasive effect.
Skratch School videos are short, to the point, and devoid of complex DJ rhetoric; he even does a demo in each episode.
Belfort turns out to be a savant of sales, a complex art of rhetoric, performance, and psychology, combined with boundless chutzpah.
As so often when politicians are involved, the truth about the overseas expansion of China's companies is much more complex than hot rhetoric suggests.Even before the latest row over the CNOOC bid, there were clear signs of China's mounting interest in acquiring real assets abroad aside from oil and gas.
Observers say the creation of such a cartel is unlikely, given the large number of producing countries that would have to agree.As with any international trade row, the underlying picture is more complex than the parties' rhetoric suggests.
In 1995, Lorna Clymer argued, "The dizzying series of displacements and substitutions of subjects, always considered a crux in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751), results from a complex manipulation of epitaphic rhetoric".
Cicero's rhetoric was a complex art form, and the ears of the audience were keenly attuned to these effects.
The sheer number of case studies convinces me that the complex relationships between public health rhetoric, local understanding, and local medical practice are unlikely to be fully understood using only the applications of quick surveys or questionnaires.
Nevertheless, research trainees are expected to write in a professional academic register, characterized by a high level of density and abstraction, long and complex sentences, elevated and impersonal rhetoric, discipline-specific vocabulary and phraseology, and perfect grammar (Halliday and Martin, 1993; Martin and Veel, 1998; Fang, 2004; Snow, 2010).
History, invention, rhetoric, poetry, convoluted passions, complex political debate are all there, magnificently shaped and paced.
In "Reading in the Brain," he adopts the rhetoric of innateness, a complex of ideas developed by Noam Chomsky 50 years ago and popularized by evolutionary psychologists like Steven Pinker.
