Sentence examples for rhetorical play from inspiring English sources

And if his work in "Major Barbara, Shaww's rhetorical play about guns, good works and God, is any indication, he is well on his way.

Kress' multimodality and design approaches are applied in a rhetorical play on the online mediation of the recent space mission to Saturn.

Kierkegaard's rhetorical play with the inverse Christian dialectic was designed not to make the word of God easier to assimilate, but to establish more clearly the absolute distance that separates human beings from God.

According to Brook is can use any rhetoric: "It aims continually at pricking the balloons of rhetorical playing--Chaplin's contrasting sentimentality and calamity is alienation".

But let's put it out there anyhow, and attempt to level the rhetorical playing field before November.

Voltaire often used satire, mockery and wit to undermine the alleged rigor of philosophical dialectic, and while Socrates saw this kind of rhetorical word play as the very essence of the erroneous sophism that he sought to alleviate, Voltaire cultivated linguistic cleverness as a solvent to the false and deceptive dialectic that anchored traditional philosophy.

Democrats want a general in that fight; they are increasingly dissatisfied that their leader has to spend his rhetorical energy playing the role of the UN envoy calling on all sides to exercise restraint.

And Mr. Trump, ever ready to seize the spotlight and toss rhetorical grenades, played to type in several interviews, repeating his doubts about the president's Hawaiian birth certificate.

The rhetorical backpedaling will play for plenty of laughs, but it also may be fodder for advocates both for and against the deal.

However, this paper has argued that this functionality operates more widely across a range of different inscriptions (for example, inscribed Affect functioning to invoke Judgement) as well as the role these rhetorical 'strategies' may play in the construal of textual persona.

It's been a good long while since we all had a story to play rhetorical hacky sack with.