Sentence examples for rhetorical confrontations from inspiring English sources
The American Spectator's Quin Hillyer calls it "the fallacy of the master debater" — the belief that elections turn on dramatic rhetorical confrontations, in which the smarter and better-spoken candidate exposes his rival as a tongue-tied boob.
Real rather than rhetorical confrontation with the United States is unwinnable, and unnecessary.
But it is hard to see him ditching his brother or brother-in-law, the two key men in a security state, without cutting his own throat, metaphorically if not literally.Mr Assad's recent oscillations, most recently back towards rhetorical confrontation, suggest despair, even panic.
It offers some hope that important technical procedures can be established that guarantee that rhetorical confrontation will not turn into an armed one.
Graham also has the potential to separate himself from the Republican pack by leading the rhetorical charge for a military confrontation against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, and possibly beyond.
There were signs of rhetorical escalation in the international confrontation over Syria - Clinton's description last week of the Russian and Chinese veto as "despicable" earned her a reproach from Beijing's foreign ministry that such language was "totally unacceptable".
However, Hemmings played down the possibility of a serious military confrontation, suggesting that the nuclear test and rhetorical bluster of the past few days were primarily the consequence of a behind-the-scenes struggle to succeed the ailing dictator Kim Jong-Il.
I gladly concede that the grotesque rhetorical ramblings of Henry Carr, whether in soliloquy or in his long first-act confrontation with Tzara, are sublimely funny; but at the heart of the enterprise something is sterile and arbitrary.
Okay, enough rhetorical questions.
