Sentence examples for rhetorical attempt from inspiring English sources

(I love it when interviewees, mostly politicians, start sentences with "Look" – it heralds a doomed rhetorical attempt to lead the interviewer back to supposed common sense).

Early usage of the term 'children on the move' comes across as more of a rhetorical attempt at presenting elegant niceties rather than one aimed at defining and establishing a specific term.

But just as there will be those who frame it as an angry riposte to black injustice, the movie could also be viewed as a rhetorical attempt to jolt viewers into debate--it is titled "The Birth of a Nation," after all.

These are all in turn influenced by the social values that prevail within the society - equity, inclusion, human rights, regulation etc. Essentially there needs to be more than what currently is largely a tokenistic or rhetorical attempt to engage with other disciplines and sectors [ 12, 26, 44, 45].

Dozens of artists have done such things, often in the name of what has come to be called "institutional critique"; all are more or less rhetorical attempts to change the way we not only negotiate art galleries and institutions, but also relate to them and the things they contain, changing the terms in which we encounter and relate to art itself.

The move on immigration follows rhetorical attempts to reach out to African American voters following a shakeup of his campaign team and the hiring of pollster Kellyanne Conway as his campaign manager and Steve Bannon, former executive chairman of rightwing website Breitbart, as his campaign CEO.

Since the rise of Modernism, some poets have opted for a poetic diction that de-emphasizes rhetorical devices, attempting instead the direct presentation of things and experiences and the exploration of tone.

His speech was rhetorical jujitsu, an attempt to throw back at his critics their favorite historical analogy — Vietnam — for the Iraq war.

Other oddities -- among them the ghostly appearances of a garishly costumed Death Sung-Ah Leee) and the 21st-century couples in street dress who pay homage to the doomed lovers in the production's last moments -- are empty rhetorical flourishes in this attempt at modernization.

However, the substance of these remarks was as waiflike as his transient attempt at rhetorical restraint.

Although I do not typically make New Year's resolutions, which usually feel too obligatory and superficial to take root, this year I decided to attempt some rhetorical surgery on myself.