While both were renowned for their rhetorical abilities, there is little evidence that President Lincoln or President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had much success in persuading the public or members of Congress to put aside their differences.
"Because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities - and you have to take that into account - he has both style and substance, he has met the standard of being a successful president, being an exceptional president".
"Because of his ability to inspire," Powell said, "because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities - and you have to take that into account - as well as his substance, he has both style and substance, he has met the standard of being a successful president, being an exceptional president".
In the study of de Oliveira and Lan (2014), the school-aged participant improved both his lexical and rhetorical abilities of writing.
The latter, the so-called Lives (Bioi) of distinguished Greek and Roman men examined in pairs, demonstrate Plutarch's historical and rhetorical abilities, also showing his interest in character formation and politics (Russell 1973, 100 116).
This nomos-phusis debate raised a fundamental challenge to the ordering intellectual assumptions of the polis, even though the sophists advertised themselves as teaching skills for success within it, a number of them being employed as diplomats by cities eager to exploit their rhetorical abilities.
I got it that they wanted her to sharpen her rhetorical ability.
Likening the scrutiny that Romney has faced after Mother Jones released a video in which he said that forty-seven per cent of Americans thought of themselves as "victims" to the controversy that then-candidate Obama faced in 2008, Lemann says that he "can't imagine Romney having the rhetorical ability, the connect-with-the-public ability to pull himself out of something like that".
The Cornificians believe that training is not relevant because rhetorical ability and intellectual acumen are natural gifts (Meta. I 8 m28), and the study of language and logic does not help one to understand the world (Meta. I 6 m25).
Therefore, since contemporaries considered Turner's rhetorical ability legendary, I was interested in discovering Turner's "training" in the rhetorical arts.
These include rhetorical ability, foresight, persistence and good negotiating skill (Kingdon 2003; Christopoulos 2006), as well as social acuity (Mintrom and Norman 2009).
