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  • But whatever the reasons, the rhetoric of hard work conflicts with the reality on the ground.†   (source)
  • Langdon knew the question was rhetorical.†   (source)
  • His speech had started out angered and impassioned, but by the end his questions weren't rhetorical anymore.†   (source)
  • With rhetoric that would be quoted frequently over the next several decades, Alabama's highest court affirmed the convictions, using language that dripped with contempt for the idea of interracial romance: The evil tendency of the crime [of adultery or fornication] is greater when committed between persons of the two races….†   (source)
  • I intended this rhetorically, a remark to punctuate opening the refrigerator door and looking for some broccoli or something else green, but Linda said, "She always does."†   (source)
  • Finny asked us, rhetorically.†   (source)
  • Rhetorically.†   (source)
  • His answer would be intelligent and the debate would be lively, lots of clever invective and good political rhetoric.†   (source)
  • The question was meant to be rhetorical, but his mind answered it (you call it insanity) nevertheless.†   (source)
  • Still he ignored her, continuing his rhetoric as before.†   (source)
  • She had meant that rhetorically.†   (source)
  • Loudspeakers carry the rhetoric of the official ceremony even to our hilltop.†   (source)
  • It was a disease, rhetorical smallpox, and every visitor exhibited it in some degree.†   (source)
  • To be sure, newspapermen are a windy group and there are a lot of rhetorical flourishes in the episode, to say nothing of the fact that a gust of wind does zip through at one point.†   (source)
  • The question seemed rhetorical, but Mae nodded anyway.†   (source)
  • A moment before, he seemed to be lifted high above the congregation, carried aloft by his own rhetoric.†   (source)
  • He asks the question almost rhetorically, like he presumes the answer is no. He's for real," Jason says, as though Y.T. must be hanging on his opinion.†   (source)
  • During the past two decades, rhetoric about the "free market" has cloaked changes in the nation's economy that bear little relation to real competition or freedom of choice.†   (source)
  • In his speeches he managed a clever mix of pertinent local issues and grand Maoist rhetoric, which sounded even grander in Malayalam.†   (source)
  • The question was purely rhetorical, since he did not wait for us to answer.†   (source)
  • It was Rhetoric and Logic, the book Ben had used to teach me argument.†   (source)
  • It did not have the tone, or the style, or the rhetorical air of his early years of love, and his argument was so rational and measured that the scent of a gardenia would have been out of place.†   (source)
  • "Do you know where that tongue has been?" she would ask rhetorically.†   (source)
  • For the Athenians, it was first and foremost essential to master the art of rhetoric, which means saying things in a convincing manner.†   (source)
  • What I needed was a shot of Fidel's fiery rhetoric.†   (source)
  • Jim Kim tried rhetoric first in the opening speech the next day.†   (source)
  • When an attorney spun mysterious rhetoric like that, it was because he had nothing else he could use to defend his client.†   (source)
  • I asked rhetorically.†   (source)
  • Even when cited merely as a rhetorical device, the armed struggle was a sign that we were actively fighting the enemy.†   (source)
  • And we'll keep the same class schedule as before, except instead of Rhetoric and History, we have extra watches on the wall."†   (source)
  • This is a critical point, and one that is often lost in the heated rhetoric of the war on smoking.†   (source)
  • White racists—whether or not they belonged to the Ku Klux Klan—had through their actions and their rhetoric developed a strong incentive scheme that was terribly clear and terribly frightening.†   (source)
  • Edward asked rhetorically, and then shrugged.†   (source)
  • It was said that at least one Mafia don had been sent up the river by sheer rhetoric.†   (source)
  • In the bronze tower we used the rhetoric of aggrieved minorities to prevent legislation that would hurt our business.†   (source)
  • * As Mary Robinson, the former Irish president who later served as a terrific UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has said: "Count up the results of fifty years of human rights mechanisms, thirty years of multi-billion-dollar development programs and endless high-level rhetoric, and the global impact is quite underwhelming.†   (source)
  • That spoke more to me than the neglect and the empty rhetoric of the Sharif and Bhutto governments.†   (source)
  • He attempts to make more small talk but I treat his questions as if they were rhetorical, even though they aren't.†   (source)
  • The argument went on and on, and they became locked in a confused rhetorical exchange that left them exhausted, each accusing the other of being more stubborn than a mule.†   (source)
  • Thomas gets up from the chair and strolls around for a moment, loosening up after the rhetorical workout, and Cedric looks down at his watch.†   (source)
  • Of course, it was all mere cocktail party rhetoric, but he could not help recalling now and then that more than twenty years ago she had gone about saying the same thing about-him and threatening him with suicide to boot.†   (source)
  • The editor there convinced him that life in academia would lead nowhere and, with a subtle blend of flattery and rhetoric about chasing the big dream, suggested that Jeremy write a piece about Leffertex, an antidepressant that was currently undergoing stage III clinical trials and was the subject of intense media speculation.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure if the question's rhetorical or if she thinks I have a clue to her metaphysical mystery.†   (source)
  • Hope I didn't wake you," Cesar said with rhetorical politeness, even though the man who stood before him was dressed in his underwear.†   (source)
  • Yes, I rail against popular opinions based on slanted political rhetoric.†   (source)
  • I didn't have the energy to actually do that, so I took the imperative as rhetorical.†   (source)
  • It was here that policy was announced in broadest rhetoric.†   (source)
  • "Valuable?" asked the capo supremo rhetorically in his opulent living room in Brooklyn Heights.†   (source)
  • He did not employ the heavy-handed rhetoric typical of so much other social reporting, which turned texts into pretentious trash.†   (source)
  • I believe if it was moved and seconded that we should come to a resolution that three and two make five, we should be entertained with logic and rhetoric, law, history, politics, and mathematics concerning the subject for two whole days, and then we should pass the resolution unanimously in the affirmative.†   (source)
  • She touches my hair and smiles, kind, trusting the rhetoric of love: Give and get.†   (source)
  • As before, I found her rhetorical style somewhat overwhelming, but in general I was able to follow her line of thought.†   (source)
  • His speaking tone and rhetoric are bold and impassioned, but he advocates the same nonviolence to achieve his methods as Gandhi used in India.†   (source)
  • As in many political arguments, the rhetoric of the public figures in the language wars probably fires up the activists but must leave many people feeling somewhere in the middle.†   (source)
  • Still, this man before him threatened the very fabric of the Great Romance with his heresy, and his rhetoric was growing stronger, they said.†   (source)
  • "Who would be the first American officer to meet such a fate, lamb?" the Bear asked rhetorically.†   (source)
  • Awareness of the incendiary capacity of such rhetoric was so acute that in 1837 the U.S. House passed a "gag rule" that prohibited petitions or discussions regarding slavery.†   (source)
  • Jack spreads his hands on the table, his favored stance rhetorical.†   (source)
  • He learned sword-fighting and riding, swimming and diving, how to shoot with the bow and play on the recorder and the theorbo, how to hunt the stag and cut him up when he was dead, besides Cosmography, Rhetoric, Heraldry, Versification, and of course History, with a little Law, Physic, Alchemy, and Astronomy.†   (source)
  • Finally, his command of rhetoric, coupled with the power of his voice, silenced a dinner table in an embassy.†   (source)
  • Texans seemed particularly ferocious on this subject, at least rhetorically.†   (source)
  • He left the question unanswered, figuring that she had asked it rhetorically anyway and would not believe him if he denied it.†   (source)
  • He was thirty-four years old, and on this day one year ago he had been a professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College.†   (source)
  • The dead man is Thomas Jefferson—first of the rational anarchists, my boy, and one who once almost managed to slip over his non-system through the most beautiful rhetoric ever written.†   (source)
  • He was slouched rhetorically forward, toward Franny, his receptive audience, a supporting forearm on either side of his Martini.†   (source)
  • There's so darned much rhetoric, hawks and doves, specialists and generalists—it drives you nuts.†   (source)
  • No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself more qualified to censure any flourish of rhetoric or extravagance of aspiration.†   (source)
  • The question was so rhetorical that Stormgren did not bother to answer it.†   (source)
  • But she loved it all because she loved Nathan, and now in reply to his question, which was largely rhetorical, she said, "Oh yes."†   (source)
  • Strangely enough, what Ned Andrews had extolled too, in all his rhetoric, was the future works of man and the leaving of the past behind.†   (source)
  • Grammar, rhetoric, and English literature were heavily emphasized, and the course included two years of German, three years of French, and four years of Latin, at the end of which we were expected to have read Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, and Livy.†   (source)
  • Those who controlled appointments were impressed by him: in those days of inordinate rhetoric and political extremism his revolutionary fervor, equally unbridled, was remarkable for its genuineness.†   (source)
  • Speaking simply and clearly, without resorting to the customary rhetorical devices, his full, rich voice touched the hearts of every listener with its simple plea for amity and justice between North and South.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL (Resuming his rhetorical stance) Foreman of the Jury.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno spoke with no rhetoric or vitriol.†   (source)
  • She pulled out my copy of Rhetoric and Logic, and a moment later my handheld sympathy lamp.†   (source)
  • Mae couldn't decide if she was asking this rhetorically or if she truly felt this was a valid point.†   (source)
  • "Sounds like Applied Rhetoric 101," said Jimmy.†   (source)
  • Since rhetoric was his own field, he felt a little more at home here.†   (source)
  • "We're busy too, you know I've got rhetoric and chemistry and I'm learning Siam."†   (source)
  • Thus Quality, in Aristotle's system, is totally divorced from rhetoric.†   (source)
  • But they saw only the word and its rhetoric context.†   (source)
  • And I was hoping to buy back my copy of Rhetoric and Logic.†   (source)
  • People whose knowledge went beyond mathematics and grammar and rhetoric.†   (source)
  • Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • I set my slightly battered copy of Rhetoric and Logic on the shelf over the desk.†   (source)
  • And how could they get virtue out of rhetoric?†   (source)
  • As the sun was rising, I removed Rhetoric and Logic from its hiding place underneath a rafter.†   (source)
  • The subject he'd been brought here to teach was rhetoric, writing, the second of the three R's.†   (source)
  • He was outraged that rhetoric had been brought down to the level of dialectic.†   (source)
  • It seemed almost rhetorical, a ritual before the masters discussed the applicant's tuition.†   (source)
  • And if not, did he really think he was teaching rhetoric?†   (source)
  • Rhetoric is an art, Aristotle began, because it can be reduced to a rational system of order.†   (source)
  • Any of these was sufficient to inform a student that he did not know rhetoric.†   (source)
  • To a methodical, laboratory-trained mind, rhetoric is just completely hopeless.†   (source)
  • At one place Socrates asks to what class of things do the words which Rhetoric uses relate.†   (source)
  • He will not be going back to the study of Aristotelian rhetoric.†   (source)
  • At the end of the hour he finally asked, "May questions about Aristotle's rhetoric be asked?†   (source)
  • What is even more important, one sees that the pieces are the basis of Aristotle's art of rhetoric.†   (source)
  • Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric.†   (source)
  • You, sir, what are the three kinds of particular rhetoric according to subject matter discussed?†   (source)
  • Phaedrus wasn't insulted that dialectic had been brought down to the level of rhetoric.†   (source)
  • I've sometimes thought of him as a student but not as a rhetoric student.†   (source)
  • Rhetoric has become an object, and as an object has parts.†   (source)
  • After all, that's what rhetoric is, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Now, at last, the standard rhetoric texts came into their own.†   (source)
  • The people Plato hates most, next to tyrants, are rhetoricians.†   (source)
  • The rhetoricians of ancient Greece were the first teachers in the history of the Western world.†   (source)
  • Plato's Good was taken from the rhetoricians.†   (source)
  • Alan asked, considering the question rhetorical.†   (source)
  • She had cut through all the rhetoric and intimated that the prime minister himself was responsible.†   (source)
  • The rhetoric draws a heartfelt sigh, and Mr. Lawler turns.†   (source)
  • Her question about suicide had been rhetorical, I realized too late.†   (source)
  • "What would you have done if it were you?" he asked rhetorically.†   (source)
  • Grief, her face said with a sad, wordless rhetoric: grief.†   (source)
  • "You long for your home?" the drow asked rhetorically.†   (source)
  • This was rhetorical, Josie knew: Matt was already angry.†   (source)
  • That rhetorical bullet has everything--wit and profundity.†   (source)
  • He's using rhetoric to distract us from the basic truth here.†   (source)
  • The question didn't sound at all rhetorical, and I could feel him looking at me again.†   (source)
  • For a man who enjoys soaring rhetoric and winding philosophical discussions, he is oddly precise.†   (source)
  • But to speak of him as mad was like sinking to empty rhetoric.†   (source)
  • I'm sick of it, she thought, but even as she thought it she knew it was rhetoric.†   (source)
  • We're more of the blood, love and rhetoric school.†   (source)
  • The rhetorical strain in her effortless, spontane-ous talk came from her grief.†   (source)
  • GUIL (low, wry rhetoric) : Give us this day our daily mask.†   (source)
  • ROS: Six rhetorical and two repetition, leaving nineteen, of which we answered fifteen.†   (source)
  • "Aren't rhetorical accusations of passive aggression inherently passive-aggressive?" my dad responded, and they went on like that for a while.†   (source)
  • Applied Rhetoric†   (source)
  • It was a calm letter that did not attempt to do more than express the state of mind that had held him captive since the previous night: it was as lyrical as the others, as rhetorical as all of them, but it had a foundation in reality.†   (source)
  • His story was a counternarrative to the rhetoric of fairness and reliability offered by politicians and law enforcement officials who wanted more and faster executions.†   (source)
  • Samuel L. Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction, in between all the swearwords (or that one swearword all those times) is a Vesuvius of biblical language, one steady burst of apocalyptic rhetoric and imagery.†   (source)
  • "Why is it that our nation above all others embraced the duel so wholeheartedly?" he asked the stairwell rhetorically.†   (source)
  • Here is where the rhetoric of modern conservatives (and I say this as one of them) fails to meet the real challenges of their biggest constituents.†   (source)
  • One of his term papers — for his Applied Rhetoric course was titled "Self-Help Books of the Twentieth Century: Exploiting Hope and Fear," and it supplied him with a great stand-up routine for use in the student pubs.†   (source)
  • And here Bailey turned to Stenton, asking for an answer, but Stenton chose to consider the question rhetorical.†   (source)
  • The witch, for example, as the story progresses is metonymically transformed into the black rags she wears, as if we're just catching her out of the corner of our eye (metonymy is the rhetorical device in which a part is made to stand for the whole, as when "Washington" is used to represent America's position on an issue).†   (source)
  • Our religion has changed— built around churches heavy on emotional rhetoric but light on the kind of social support necessary to enable poor kids to do well.†   (source)
  • Depending on how well he did in his Problematics courses — Applied Logic, Applied Rhetoric, Medical Ethics and Terminology, Applied Semantics, Relativistics and Advanced Mischaracterization, Comparative Cultural Psychology, and the rest — he'd have a choice between well-paid window-dressing for a big Corp or flimsy cut-rate stuff for a borderline one.†   (source)
  • I prepared to answer, but the question was apparently rhetorical, as he smacked the cake out of my hands and moved on to his next victim.†   (source)
  • One of the letters was from Jimmy's old dorm roommate, Bernice, who'd cranked her rhetorical volume up considerably.†   (source)
  • It galled me, not being able to recall its real name, as I had read it in Rhetoric and Logic just a few days ago.†   (source)
  • I unpinned my silver talent pipes from my cloak and slid them across her desk so they lay near Rhetoric and Logic.†   (source)
  • I took inventory of what I had with me: a canvas sack, a small knife, a ball of string, some wax, a copper penny, two iron shims, and Rhetoric and Logic, the book Ben had given me.†   (source)
  • The contents of my small sack lay next to me on the ground: a half ball of string, a small dull knife, Rhetoric and Logic, and the remainder of a piece of bread the farmer had given me for lunch.†   (source)
  • "I the undersigned, do agree to return the copy of the book Rhetoric and Logic with the inscription 'to Kvothe' to the bearer of this note in exchange for two silver pennies, provided he present this receipt before the date—"†   (source)
  • Rhetoric and Logic, sir.†   (source)
  • And they taught rhetoric…that fits.†   (source)
  • Therefore it emphasized a mastery of the rational foundations of communication in order to understand rhetoric.†   (source)
  • What had started out as a heresy from traditional rhetoric turned into a beautiful introduction to it.†   (source)
  • I was talking about the first wave of crystallization outside of rhetoric that resulted from Phaedrus' refusal to define Quality.†   (source)
  • As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin.†   (source)
  • Rhetoric, Plato spells out very clearly, is in no way connected with the Good; rhetoric is "the Bad."†   (source)
  • He felt there was something wrong with it, but that the wrongness was not in this application of reason to rhetoric.†   (source)
  • The only thing that was clear was that Aristotle was very much concerned about the relation of rhetoric to dialectic.†   (source)
  • Aristotle fouled up what Phaedrus wanted to say by placing rhetoric in an outrageously minor category in his hierarchic order of things.†   (source)
  • What was depressing was that the text was one of the most rational texts available on the subject of rhetoric and it still didn't seem right.†   (source)
  • He read on: Rhetoric can be subdivided into particular proofs and topics on the one hand and common proofs on the other.†   (source)
  • Another thing that depressed him was prescriptive rhetoric, which supposedly had been done away with but was still around.†   (source)
  • Those first teachers of the Western world were teaching Quality, and the medium they had chosen was that of rhetoric.†   (source)
  • Rhetoric is a counterpart of dialectic, it had said, as if this were of the greatest importance, yet why this was so important was never explained.†   (source)
  • Using his class notes as reference material I want to reconstruct the way in which Quality became a working concept for him in the teaching of rhetoric.†   (source)
  • Aristotelian ethics, Aristotelian definitions, Aristotelian logic, Aristotelian forms, Aristotelian substances, Aristotelian rhetoric, Aristotelian laughter —haha, ha-ha.†   (source)
  • The relationship of Quality to the area of Art has been shown rather exhaustively through a pursuit of Phaedrus' understanding of Quality in the Art of rhetoric.†   (source)
  • Socrates knows very well what Gorgias does for a living and how he does it, but he starts his Twenty Questions dialectic by asking Gorgias with what rhetoric is concerned.†   (source)
  • The next week Phaedrus had read the material and was prepared to take apart the statement that rhetoric is an art because it can be reduced to a rational system of order.†   (source)
  • Of course there's "empty rhetoric," that is, rhetoric that has emotional appeal without proper subservience to dialectical truth, but we don't want any of that, do we?†   (source)
  • We'll learn the Truth in our other academic courses, and then learn a little rhetoric so that we can write it nicely and impress our bosses who will advance us to higher positions.†   (source)
  • The course in the Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods was not concerned with Plato's notion of the Good, however; it was concerned with Plato's notion of rhetoric.†   (source)
  • The Greek Phaedrus is not a Sophist but a young orator who is a foil for Socrates in this dialogue, which is about the nature of love and the possibility of philosophic rhetoric.†   (source)
  • Poor rhetoric, once "learning" itself, now becomes reduced to the teaching of mannerisms and forms, Aristotelian forms, for writing, as if these mattered.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus noted that the time set for the class conflicted with his schedule at Navy Pier and chose instead another one, Ideas and Methods 251, Rhetoric.†   (source)
  • Socrates has demonstrated to Gorgias that both rhetoric and cooking are branches of pandering…pimping…because they appeal to the emotions rather than true knowledge.†   (source)
  • He points his finger at the student and demands, "According to Aristotle: What are the three kinds of particular rhetoric according to subject matter discussed?"†   (source)
  • The next time the class in Ideas and Methods 251, Rhetoric, met at the large round table in South Chicago, a department secretary announced that the Professor of Philosophy was ill.†   (source)
  • The text started with the premise that if rhetoric is to be taught at all at a University level it should be taught as a branch of reason, not as a mystic art.†   (source)
  • His attempt to come up with something substantial led to further crystallization beyond the traditional limits of rhetoric and into the domain of philosophy.†   (source)
  • Rhetoric, 2; Dialectic, 0.†   (source)
  • When Phaedrus and his family arrived in Chicago, he took up residence near the University and, since he had no scholarship, began full-time teaching of rhetoric at the University of Illinois, which was then downtown at Navy Pier, sticking out into the lake, funky and hot.†   (source)
  • Socrates is not using dialectic to understand rhetoric, he is using it to destroy it, or at least to bring it into disrepute, and so his questions are not real questions at all…they are just word-traps which Gorgias and his fellow rhetoricians fall into.†   (source)
  • In time, Phaedrus abandoned the labor of pounding his head against the Chairman's rhetoric and tried to discover more about the background of the committee, hoping that would explain what this was all about.†   (source)
  • Rhetoric, 1; Dialectic, 0.†   (source)
  • There was a minimum prescriptive-rhetoric requirement in the department, but like the other teachers he scrupulously avoided any defense of prescriptive rhetoric other than as a "requirement of the college."†   (source)
  • This contempt for rhetoric, combined with Aristotle's own atrocious quality of rhetoric, so completely alienated Phaedrus he couldn't read anything Aristotle said without seeking ways to despise it and attack it.†   (source)
  • His second phase, the metaphysical one, was tenuous and speculative, but this first phase, in which he simply taught rhetoric, was by all accounts solid and pragmatic and probably deserves to be judged on its own merits, independently of the second phase.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus guessed that Aristotle's diminution of dialectic, from Plato's sole method of arriving at truth to a "counterpart of rhetoric," might be as infuriating to modern Platonists as it would have been to Plato.†   (source)
  • Rhetoric.†   (source)
  • And rhetoric.†   (source)
  • The difference was that Plato's Good was a fixed and eternal and unmoving Idea, whereas for the rhetoricians it was not an Idea at all.†   (source)
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