Sentence examples for rhetorical ideal from inspiring English sources

Western society is based on Greco-Roman ideals of the person that can speak well, a rhetorical ideal.

National reconciliation still seems more a rhetorical ideal than a government policy.In the south, among the largely Buddhist Sinhalese majority, Mahinda Rajapaksa, inaugurated for his second presidential term on November 19th, is monarch of all he surveys (and he does little to discourage intimations of royalty).

Broadly speaking, the first half of this period exhibits a considerable amount of biographical activity, of which much has been lost; such fragments as remain of the rest largely funeral elegies and rhetorical exercises depicting ideal types of character or behaviour suggest that from a literary point of view the loss is not grievous.

Besides being the perfect description of a politician, it's also the ideal rhetorical fit for a crowd that says the elderly are "greedy geezers" for wanting to receive the Social Security benefits they've paid for all their lives -- or for not wanting to die because they can't afford medical attention.

Lucian includes a picture with Orion in a rhetorical description of an ideal building, in which Orion is walking into the rising sun with Lemnos nearby, Cedalion on his shoulder.

Far from defining normative constraints top-down or limiting the scope and influence of public participation and deliberation, fundamental rights are neither abstract ideals or, worse, rhetorical pleas, nor rules with a definite, closed and compelling meaning that concerns solely the relationships between citizens on the one hand, and their governments or judicial courts on the other.

All three of these foundations are now crumbling – under the ferocious assault of both neoliberalism and Silicon Valley, the latter being all too happy to exploit the numerous inconsistencies, ambiguities and rhetorical weaknesses of the social democratic ideal.

Habermas conceives the rhetorical level in terms of highly idealized properties of communication, which he initially presented as the conditions of an "ideal speech situation" (1973a; also 1971/2001).

It leaves her prone to a number of genuine, if stiffly rhetorical, insights: "Resentment is not a good governing ideal".

All this contributed to the prevalence in Byzantine higher education of an encyclopedic ideal, and to the preference of rhetorical over philosophical studies.

But, looking at today, he presents his own fortress, his own ambitions, and his own ideals as coming under siege through the rhetorical contagion of a young woman and her mostly female followers.