Sentence examples for rhetorical take from inspiring English sources
The chorus is a rhetorical take on an American bumper sticker, which asks "Do you love your God, gun, government?" The UK music magazine Kerrang! described "The Fight Song" as a "playground punk anthem".
Previously, a sentiment like that would have been just another wry treat from the singer's bottomless bag of rhetorical tricks: take a cliché and invert it, so that it's transformed into a blackly humorous punch line.
We show that well-known concepts from the area of natural language processing like speech acts, anaphora, and rhetorical relations take on an extended meaning in the context of multimodal communication.
When we communicate across society, it's at the level of rhetorical belief — "taking a stand" — more than in detail.
The Nobel lecture as a rhetorical genre took decades to reach its current format.
Santorum's rhetorical excesses took him off track in Michigan this past week.
We can and do empathize with how fragile we all are, and with how we cannot be ruled by terror, but why the rhetorical urge to take the place of the fallen?
Though she did not bash any government-issued ashtrays with a hammer — as Vice President Al Gore did in 1993 in a television appearance to illustrate labyrinthine federal procurement regulations — Mrs. Clinton did take a rhetorical hammer to the Bush administration.
While laws like No Child Left Behind take the rhetorical punches for being a straitjacket on schools, it is actually union contracts that have the greatest effect over what teachers can and cannot do.
Even Joe Namath, who in 1969 said that he could "guarantee" a victory against the Colts, who were favored 50-1, theDaily Daily News "they're sure as hell not the favorite," and wondered if Ryan might take some rhetorical lessons from Captain Queeg.
But for the Taliban, the move toward talks nonetheless appears to be a chance to take a rhetorical victory lap and score a few propaganda points with ordinary Afghans, the vast majority of whom are tired of war and more inclined to see the talks as a sign of American weakness and insurgent strength than the other way around.
