I argue in the last chapter that this skill in toggling has stood at the center of rhetorical training since the Greeks invented formal rhetoric.
However, the use of physical gestures wasn't an integral or developed part of rhetorical training in his day.
The ancient model of rhetorical training—"restraint, coolness under pressure, modesty, and good humour" —endured into the 18th century as a Western educational ideal.
All the firepower (real, and rhetorical) was trained on Ukraine and its eastern regions – the last battleground, potentially, between Russia and the West.
The rhetorical basis of his training and interest is reflected throughout his works, the chief concern of which is form, but his style is affected, excessive, overelaborate, and diffuse.
The new, tea-infused Republican Party has been training its rhetorical sights on "crony capitalism," the chummy relationship between government and the private sector that breeds subsidies and regulatory favors.
MOSCOW — In the week since Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died, much has been written about how the writer who exposed the brutality of the Soviet system lost some of his relevance late in life — about how, as he trained his rhetorical thunderbolts on the immorality of modern life, many Russians came to view him as a public scold and a relic.
Like many attorneys who are trained in rhetorical argument, he seemed to have no clue about how to even begin to assess the evidence of science, presenting a chart and arguing that "in the last 10 years we've seen virtually no change" in the temperature.
One of the clerics attached to Constantinople's basilica of Hagia Sophia (Greek: Holy Wisdom), Nicephorus was trained in the florid, rhetorical style of Renaissance Byzantine historiography; he taught rhetoric and theology and in his later years became a monk.
By offering a careful reading of Irenaeus' polemical and constructive arguments, God and Christ in Irenaeus contradicts these claims by showing that he was highly educated, trained in the rhetorical arts, aware of general philosophical positions, and able to use both rhetorical and philosophical theories and methods in his argumentation.
Most notably, Cruz — a Princeton debating champion, Harvard Law School graduate, law clerk to the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Texas solicitor general — trained his formidable rhetorical skills on two targets: gun-control proposals and President Obama's nominee for defense secretary, former senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican.
