Sentence examples for rhetorical criticism from inspiring English sources

Body language is an important function of what scholars call "rhetorical criticism".

Rhetorical criticism of a debate allows journalists to shed light on how candidates react and communicate under fire.

Among his other books are Modern Rhetorical Criticism (3rd ed., 2005, with Suzanne Daughton), The Political Pulpit Revisited (2005, with John L. Pauley; revised edition of Political Pulpit, 1977), and Political Tone: How Leaders Talk and Why (2013, with Jay P. Childers and Colene J. Lind).

This is a blanket rhetorical criticism that utterly fails to deal with the substance of the arguments the film presents.

I once penned an essay on Malcolm's speech for my Rhetorical Criticism class at Tulane University so when I saw the Vest or Vote campaign, it immediately struck a chord with me.

Whereas Mandela rarely ventured beyond rhetorical criticism of the injustices of the global order, his successor, Thabo Mbeki (1999 2008) had a distinctly different view.

In a defiant inauguration speech, billowing with windy rhetorical criticisms of the free-market reforms of the 1990s, he made some ambitious and expensive promises.

At the time, reviewing that speech, I noted the rhetorical technique: "By escalating criticism, he knocked down a straw man, the oldest speechifying trick in the book".

One of the difficulties in literary criticism is rhetorical: in order to fully lay out your ideas, you often have to claim that they are satisfying explanations in themselves, when you know that they represent just one of many equal, and perhaps simultaneously true, alternatives.

Even the opposition in parliament has been unable to parlay the criticism into effective rhetorical attacks.

President Obama has gotten plenty of praise — and also some criticism — for his rhetorical gifts.