Sentence examples for rhetorical tics from inspiring English sources

As a work of narrative history, this volume, like its predecessors, combines detailed narration of events with irritating rhetorical tics, like the alternation of long paragraphs with dramatic single sentences that sometimes fade into ellipses: "Everyone assumed the immediate impendence of a historic White House legislative proposal, a proposal bound to raise a storm of controversy......

In a curious rhetorical tic, Hitchens regularly refers to people whom he wishes to ridicule by their zoological class.

Mr. Gingrich taught college history before entering politics, and his historical references on the campaign trail are such a feature of his public remarks as to be nearly a rhetorical tic.

Obama's tic for rhetorical evenhandedness meant that even in his discussion of racial inequality, he had to nod to black failings by pointing to "self-defeating riots" and "criminal excuse-making".

Adding to an extraordinary stock of rhetorical irritants is Iris's tic of etymologizing or parsing the obvious: "That's my trousseau, I thought...

What began as a rhetorical flourish by Bush on the day of the attack developed into a kind of tic in the following days — he bookended his warnings to the terrorists with the phrase "make no mistake".

His only new tic was beginning a series of statements with, "Imagine... .. before running down John Lennon's song in ideological reverse, a rhetorical effort to conjure political change akin to rubbing a magic lamp.

(Again, rhetorical).

Impulsive, rhetorical.

I had tics.

Okay, enough rhetorical questions.