Yet these moments are delivered as rhetorical set pieces; she never seems driven from one statuesque or writhing pose to another.
He shares a rhetorical set with new-media thinkers like Emily Bell, Jeff Jarvis and Jay Rosen, all of whom sit on the advisory board of Digital First, his management company that now runs both newspaper chains.
This scenario — hyperarticulate people shut in a room yapping at one another — suggests a movie adapted from the stage, as do the over-deliberate cadences, rhetorical set pieces and compressed, rather contrived emotional intensity of the drama.
Mr. Florio, who took over as chief executive in 1994 after serving as the senior business executive at The New Yorker, is known as an aggressive salesman with a rhetorical set to match.
And then answer your own question by borrowing her opinion that Mirren's emotional scenes "are delivered as rhetorical set pieces; she never seems driven from one statuesque or writhing pose to another".
The National staging represents a huge step forward for the young director, Polly Findlay, working for the first time in the capacious Olivier auditorium: a tricky space that turns out to be aptly suited to the play's large-scale emotions and sizable rhetorical set pieces.
Fast Company may be imprisoned by a rhetorical set that cannot be used without inviting derision -- spare change agents, anyone?
Last weekend it was reported that Mr. Obama used on the presidential campaign trail a rhetorical set-piece first spoken by Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, a friend and co-chairman of his campaign.
Will they ever be ashamed enough of themselves for that?" His anti-Eliot diatribe, which might make even Tom Paulin blanch, is a rhetorical set-piece, a prose poem of invective.
The document's shift in purpose, from one-time rhetorical set-piece to widely disseminated tract, is reminiscent of Ralph Waldo Emerson, to whose famous addresses secular sermons without exception every American essayist, for good or ill, owes one thing or another.
