Sentence examples for rhetorical merit from inspiring English sources
Slogans such as Harold Macmillan's "You've never had it so good", Harold Wilson's "The pound in your pocket will not be devalued" and Edward Heath's "We will reduce prices at a stroke" are memorable for their political effect rather than their rhetorical merit (and for the fact that they were all misquotations).
Yet I am startled by Robb's treatment of this great poet; surely Verlaine merits a rhetorical respect as dignified as the kind Robb awards Rimbaud in analogous circumstances.
Concentrating on three of Plato's dialogues that aggressively condemn rhetoric while skillfully deploying its strategies, this course will both explore how these rhetorical strategies shape the arguments presented and assess the merits of Socrates' objections to them.
Somehow, though, such primitivism merits airtime in today's surreal culture of rhetorical extremism.
The right words and rhetorical gimmicks will win over the public, regardless of the merits of the policy.
The fact that NF refutes the axiom of choice sharpens the consistency problem greatly, and ought to sharpen public interest, but the widely-held view that sets are, of their essence, wellfounded represents a huge rhetorical obstacle to NF attracting the attention that its foundational interest merits.
But the committee said that in the end, it found the account "credible" and concluded that the professor's "rhetorical response to her query exceeded commonly accepted bounds by conveying that her question merited harsh public criticism".
A rhetorical classic goes "Why argue with success?" In this case, Enron's gigantic bankruptcy might have merited a little argument.
Okay, enough rhetorical questions.
