Sentence examples for rhetorical world from inspiring English sources

The invention that disrupted this rhetorical world was the canon.

Among his many academic books were "The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke" (1965), "Poetic Meter and Poetic Form" (1965; revised, 1979), and "Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing" (1971).

The poems shift in tone and register from the matter of fact to the highly rhetorical ("O world!"), the statements from the simple ("the hand of the countryside on my shoulder") to the more abstruse ("He is affection and the present since he opened the house to foaming winter and the hum of summer"), while always departing from and returning to a concrete, sensory world.

The rhetorical and moral worlds with which both of these domains are associated have been marked by an acutely sharp set of binary bioethical distinctions.

What the Fathers brought to biblical interpretation was a rich rhetorical tradition from the world of paganism.

The heart of Qutb's argument rests on a rhetorical flourish: the modern world exactly reflects the state of things at the beginning of the seventh century, before the Koran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.

Already lip-smackingly dry and dense prose (the rhetorical equivalent of the world's worst sponge cake) is studded with caveats ("projection", "estimate", "uncertain") that make it difficult to simply rip out a catchy piece of news.

A lot of this debate -- I think what the president promised and pledged was so that you could see who was fighting for their constituents and who was fighting for drug and insurance companies... Talk about being flexible -- Gibbs is a world-class rhetorical yogi.

By George Packer President Bush has put the idea of spreading democracy around the world at the rhetorical heart of American foreign policy.

ONE of Binyamin Netanyahu's least endearing habits is his rhetorical recourse to the second world war and the Holocaust when he is in political trouble.

The slow muting of Mr. Obama's rhetorical dial, particularly noticeable as world markets gyrate and unemployment spikes, speaks to a candidate who has run a rigorously disciplined campaign.