Salman Rushdie has attacked the "hate-filled religious rhetoric" that "persuades hundreds, perhaps thousands of British Muslims to join the decapitating barbarians of Isis", describing it as "the most dangerous new weapon in the world today".
Perhaps government rhetoric that limits the effect of higher education to salary enhancement and career development plays a part in that apparent, and perhaps only initial, decline.
"We know the kind of hate rhetoric that is spewed from individuals like him, and perhaps in some odd way it will be good," Mr. Ramirez said.
In an era when politicians strangely lack the skill of rhetoric, that art most essential to their vocation, Keating nostalgia is perhaps more excusable than ever.
"Any policy" or "rhetoric that is not built on that reality is destined to be counterproductive, perhaps dangerous and destined to fail," he added.
Perhaps investors have been made cynical by the kind of rhetoric that accompanied debt ceiling talks in America, when threats of default and shutdown were averted at the 11th hour.
I think that's perhaps one of the reasons why you have all of that violent rhetoric, that language of purgation, that I talked about in the last lecture.
Perhaps Trump's behaviour will be tempered by the weight of his office, but nothing can erase the hateful rhetoric that has already poisoned America's waters.
That, perhaps, represented bottom.
The Republican convention included rhetoric that, while perhaps alienating to some moderates, was intended to bring the party's conservative wing to its feet and move those feet to voting booths.
