These high school age young Black women were at the center of their communities because they intentionally centered themselves and understood their actions to be a refusal of an urban rhetoric that constructed them as complex outliers in the public narrative of Black life.
The problem is that both the feminist movement Clinton rides and the civil rights rhetoric Obama uses were constructed at a time when the enemy was the reactionary white male establishment.
Despite Hungary's rhetoric, and despite constructing a new fence along the Serbo-Hungarian border, Hungarian officials have bowed to the inevitable and are now allowing refugees to be bussed in from Croatia and onwards to Austria.
The number of Run the Jewels flags and bandanas was reminiscent of a political rally, one where tightly constructed rhymes trump inflammatory rhetoric.
But his carelessly constructed, made-for-television rhetoric reinforced the dominant imagery of the moment — a portrayal of 21st-century Washington as being like 18th-century Lexington and Concord, an occupied country on the verge of armed rebellion.
Small datasets, poorly constructed hypotheses and assertive rhetoric are the prominent features of current discussions on a human role in megafaunal extinctions.
The essay on Mahler declares that in his Fifth Symphony the composer "opted for a rhetoric that brings to the foreground a constructed musical subjectivity whose task is to control and unify the protean character changes that define its discourse".
Marketing strategies adopt this rhetoric of individual responsibility, constructing the body in a state of imbalance, providing consumers with a choice to be healthy, and then encouraging them to be proactive.
Wadsworth Jarrell's 1972 portrait, Revolutionary, of a figure sporting an Afro constructed of words like "resist" and "black" perfectly illustrates the collectives' revolutionary rhetoric bleeding into their artistic practices.
It is to fall prey to the dichotomy constructed by political and media systems that benefit off of fear-mongering and Othering rhetoric.
Sadat of Egypt's unprecedented visit to Israel: "Anwar Sadat's speech to the Israeli parliament was constructed like a spiral: circuitous loops of 'rhetoric' advanced by small increments toward 'hard substance'...
