Sentence examples for rhetorical idea from inspiring English sources

One of them, John Newman, a New York sculptor, says: "It's very inventive, not just clever as a rhetorical idea.

The individual portraits in Guthrie's painting were obviously taken separately and assembled later; his composition around a table is not a real meeting, it's a rhetorical idea, expressing these men's shared responsibility in power.

The best rhetorical idea, though, came from William Gavin, a political novice who, before being recruited by Nixon's law partner Leonard Garment, taught high-school English in Pennsylvania — "from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf," as he put it, when I interviewed him for a book about Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

There was an impressively large rhetorical idea and a powerful sense of history, in which Campbell set out the case for the "five freedoms" of opportunity, good health, personal security, prosperity for all and a clean environment as a counterpoint to Beveridge's famous "five giants" of want, disease, ignorance, squalor and ideleness.

The questions can be rhetorical, the idea is to turn the page into a grounds for thinking, books don't mind if you write on them.

His paintings weren't really paintings; they were rhetorical "statements about ideas for paintings".

Mr. Madsen himself appears in the darkness, illuminated by a burning match just long enough to drop rhetorical bombs, like the idea that we are encountering the last remnant of the fires that once warmed our civilization.

Along the way, Gould's provocative ideas and rhetorical writing generated plenty of controversy.

The grand idea behind the rhetorical flourish — which Mr. Obama has used for the past two years or so but which the White House put front and center this week — is that the hollowing out of the American middle class is not just unfair or unfortunate, it has slowed growth and created a more fragile economy, too.

Hence, the basic idea of a rhetorical demonstration seems to be this: In order to make a target group believe that q, the orator must first select a sentence p or some sentences p1 … pn that are already accepted by the target group; secondly he has to show that q can be derived from p or p1 … pn, using p or p1 … pn as premises.

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