This can't be a lobbing of rhetorical thought-bombs into enemy territory.
She constantly interrupts herself, asking rhetorical questions, aborting thoughts, shifting into digressions.
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.
Thanks in part to my students, I realized that the conversationality, concise humor, ludicrous situations and faux-sincere profundity of the "Deep Thoughts" presage rhetorical turns that now appear often in contemporary poetry.
This is the drift of modern mass-thought, the rhetorical terminus of Facebook activism: the belief that to name an evil is to tame it.
In some cases, users will post rhetorical questions or interesting thoughts in the comments section that can be used to create new blog posts.
Such faltering could be an instance of anacoluthon (a change of syntax within a sentence), or aposiopesis (a rhetorical term for an unfinished thought), or maybe agrammatism (a form of expressive aphasia).
A Room of One's Own is both a landmark in feminist thought and a rhetorical masterpiece, which started life as lectures to the literary societies of Newnham and Girton Colleges, Cambridge, in October 1928.
Straussians make Locke's theory relevant by claiming that the theological dimensions of his thought are primarily rhetorical; they are "cover" to keep him from being persecuted by the religious authorities of his day.
A former debating champion, he has mastered the gentler rhetorical skill of conveying his thoughts through personal anecdotes.
He pulled on the throttle, which became part of his rhetorical equipment: he slowed for reflective thought, then sped up again.
