Sentence examples for rhetorical from inspiring English sources

The rhetorical devices his speechwriters love to use have been rejected by him in favour of sticking with this, his original wording.

Even the Liberal Democrats have joined this rhetorical arms race, ripping apart their threadbare integrity.

Recent rhetorical flourishes from father-of-two Barack Obama, the President of the United States, have tossed climate change into this same bucket of ethical decisions.

Today, it was being stressed by the government that David Cameron's call for a more "muscular liberalism" to combat home-grown terror, made in a speech in Munich on Saturday, was not simply rhetorical.

The days for huge rhetorical claims about the greatest reform since 1832 are coming to an end.

When we hear today's politicians offering us a choice between liberal freedom and fundamentalist oppression, and triumphantly asking the rhetorical question, "Do you want women to be excluded from public life and deprived of their rights?

But asked if the government's move would mean he would be less visible, Varoufakis shot back with a rhetorical: "The finance minister?

He did not, everyone agreed, have the rhetorical punch of his predecessors.

While British parliamentarians shouldn't expect rhetorical fireworks, it's possible she will add a personal flavour to her speech, as when she spoke in front of both chambers of the US Congress in 2009.

This was apparently a rhetorical question, although the answer might be "because it's where we live, Mr Tillerson".

"All the declarations of Bishop Williamson and Fr Faure prove abundantly that they no longer recognize the Roman authorities, except in a purely rhetorical manner," the society said in a communique issued after his ordination.