Sentence examples for rhetorical manner from inspiring English sources

"All the declarations of Bishop Williamson and Fr Faure prove abundantly that they no longer recognize the Roman authorities, except in a purely rhetorical manner," the society said in a communique issued after his ordination.

But when the narrator evokes a common national good and purpose — unfurling our country's full name in the rhetorical manner also favored by our current president — you feel the graveyard's chill wind.

His gaucho clothes, his high rhetorical manner, his refusal of payment for fighting, his habit of withdrawing from public view for long periods, even his "skill in producing displays of prodigious courage" (risking his life, she means), were all calculated P.R. ploys.

Kearns also notes that Taft "marveled at Roosevelt's self-confidence, talent for publicity, delight in confrontation, and rousing rhetorical manner". Taft exercised the bully pulpit, too, but in a much different way that best reflected his identity and character.

Mr. Valenti's often florid rhetorical style and manner -- he likes to quote, among others, Churchill, William Hazlitt and various Greek philosophers -- may seem outdated and has been a source of ridicule.

Broadly speaking, the term "Grand Manner" refers to a bombastic, highly rhetorical style of English portrait painting in the 18th century characterized by regal poses, opulent decoration and the use of visual metaphors.

Mr. Giorno also brought theatrical flair to his reading (without dancing) of "Keel Boat Talk and Manners," a wildly rhetorical, boastful speech from Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi".

His homilies were expressed in the conventional manner, utilizing the uncompromising rhetorical form known as the psogos (Greek: blame, censure).

Pericles' manner of thought and rhetorical charisma may have been in part products of Anaxagoras' emphasis on emotional calm in the face of trouble and skepticism about divine phenomena.

Wigney began his lengthy judgment in a striking manner by posing several "beguiling" rhetorical questions about the history of religious wars, terrorism and apartheid which he said were raised by the two applications.

Persuasive technologies can then increase the chances of people to behave in a specific manner by increasing the motivation (rhetorical function, typical by narratives or social cues), or by making the task easier (the tool category).