Sentence examples for rhetoric itself from inspiring English sources
WASHINGTON — Democrats often complained about President George W. Bush's frequent use of a rhetorical device as old as rhetoric itself: creating the illusion of refuting an opponent's argument by mischaracterizing it and then knocking down that mischaracterization.
He also frames it by conceiving rhetoric itself so permissively.
The enemy was not this side or that one; it was the abstraction of rhetoric itself.
In Book I he therefore dealt with the stages of education before a boy entered the school of rhetoric itself, to which he came in Book II.
The fact that the video represents an online excerpt of a film montage of digitally edited clips of television broadcasts of audio and video feeds means it's almost pure art, editing and framing — a piece of rhetoric itself.
New Democracy is not averse to using anti-immigrant rhetoric itself, the journalist points out, with calls to "reclaim" Greece's cities for Greeks.
Exaggerated rhetoric, in itself, is nothing new.
It is at this point that the "new year, new start" rhetoric shows itself to be bollocks.
I disagree with Hemingway; I think that rhetoric is itself potentially a matter of great moral import, and Nance's splendidly literary voice-over is a terrific example.
The Israeli government is reportedly fearful that any guidelines agreed in Paris would be turned into another UN resolution before Trump's inauguration, and it has ratcheted up its rhetoric, presenting itself as the victim of an international conspiracy.
Platonov was so clearly about the reckless dazzle of youth, Ivanov about its passing, and The Seagull about the determination of the middle-aged to destroy the hopes of the young, that a shared, subtly modern rhetoric suggested itself unforced for all three plays.
