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These causes are: belief in unworthy authority; long custom; uncritical popular opinion; concealment of academic ignorance in a display of rhetorical wisdom.
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It was a prayer for inner wisdom rather than fleeting moments of rhetorical victory.
Instead we are stuck in a rhetorical, self-defeating counter-argument as the conventional wisdom -- and that is our terminal narrative of modernity.
Instead, God asks a series of rhetorical questions about whether Job can match divine power and wisdom in creating and sustaining the world.
But the Obama team isn't on board with that conventional wisdom, and will use the Bush deficits as a rhetorical weapon to protect its own priorities.
By winnowing the formal and rhetorical possibilities down so far, Merwin was asking his poems to be vehicles for wisdom or nothing at all.
In this highly rhetorical work, Valla if we can assume that Lorenzo represents Valla's own position stresses that in his inscrutable wisdom God hardens the hearts of some, while saving those of others.
(Again, rhetorical).
Impulsive, rhetorical.
Okay, enough rhetorical questions.
Has many rhetorical uses.
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