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"rhetorical" Definitions
  1. (of a question) asked only to make a statement or to produce an effect rather than to get an answer
  2. (formal, often disapproving) (of a speech or piece of writing) intended to influence people, but not completely honest or sincere
  3. (formal) connected with the art of rhetoric

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Rhetorical balancing act The visit to Dallas required a rhetorical balancing act from the nation's first African-American president.
"Look, a rhetorical discussion about the cultural changes and whether we can hold anyone, male or female, to standards made for an interesting hour, made for an interesting rhetorical discussion," Lewis said.
At campus after campus, Yiannopoulos jumped in, rhetorical guns blazing.
Johnson's rhetorical style was a shocking departure from those norms.
And this debate that may not be purely rhetorical forever.
It's never rhetorical, it's never just noise, it's never abstract.
Dangerous rhetorical slip ups that could tilt the public's perception.
It has to design a rhetorical framework that drives a
The questions are effectively rhetorical, the answers "never" and "nothing".
Giuliani managed the equivalent of attempting a rhetorical triple axel.
But these differences have turned out to be mostly rhetorical.
The rhetorical tactics are as similar as they are offensive.
Onwuka and Carter suggested that the problem is merely rhetorical.
It is a master class in 19th Century rhetorical trolling.
Are his rhetorical skills good enough to do it alone?
What is the rhetorical question Hamlet addresses in his soliloquy?
Such conduct is certainly worthy of indictment, legal and rhetorical.
Whataboutism is a rhetorical strategy meant to paralyze, not persuade.
Will Trump lob a series of rhetorical grenades into Congress?
True, there are differences over both policy and rhetorical strategy.
Donald Trump's campaign was built on similarly hollow rhetorical flourishes.
"I'm just asking the rhetorical question," Biden told the newspaper.
But his rhetorical war of attrition with New York Gov.
Long stretches of the debates turned into repetitive rhetorical sludge.
One of his bolder rhetorical moves might also catch on.
On the one hand, they do love that rhetorical club.
Max: In your defense, it's a pretty common rhetorical device.
Plenty of famous speakers employed rhetorical devices that involved repetition.
President Donald Trump's inaugural address managed an impressive rhetorical feat.
But to accuse others of "political rhetorical terrorism," as Rep.
The López Obrador government has maintained a rhetorical commitment to a "Marshall Plan"-style investment in Central America — and the US's rhetorical agreement that such development was necessary helped justify Mexico's cooperation on immigration crackdowns.
The Cyrus narrative allows evangelicals to thread a difficult rhetorical needle.
Let's face it, most inaugural addresses are simply rhetorical victory laps.
Members must swallow hard and pull back from past rhetorical posturing.
Al Franken of Minnesota took a rhetorical swing at Texas Sen.
From a rhetorical standpoint, the tool can have a huge impact.
Stripped of some rhetorical excess, a serious accusation is being made.
Thus far this rhetorical question has been met with dead air.
I don't really understand if this question is rhetorical or not.
Inconveniently, from a rhetorical perspective, most go to the migrants themselves.
We are not talking about some rhetorical issue of the wall.
It was a rhetorical dance that needed to achieve several goals.
A Jewish listener also stood up and asked a rhetorical question.
And a lot of this rhetorical spin is transparent in itself.
But Libowitz says the idea wasn't to make a rhetorical point.
Instead, you got a repeat of his usual greatest rhetorical hits.
It reminds me of a rhetorical tic Trump uses a lot.
His rhetorical tips and phrases are regularly distributed among Republican circles.
Don't interrupt, Gemini, that was a rhetorical question — there is not.
It employs a similar rhetorical strategy and tugs at familiar themes.
Yet Grillo has increasingly turned his considerable rhetorical skill against immigrants.
But in more sophisticated guise, repetition is a venerable rhetorical tool.
Under their influence, Trump briefly softened his rhetorical assault on NATO.
It was a rhetorical tool of separation and otherness, he said.
Yang Xiguang's most influential essays copied Mao's rhetorical style and language.
Trump has declared rhetorical war on the NFL over the issue.
The title of the film has a touch of rhetorical resonance.
He engaged in rhetorical tactics unprecedented in recent American electoral history.
This approach ignores the environmental movement's earlier rhetorical and organizational strengths.
A random, sort of indecipherable rhetorical question about torches being passed.
As a rhetorical matter, I don't make a claim like that.
He breaks down Matt's defenses with rhetorical questions and shrugging apathy.
Importantly, each also had a huge rhetorical advantage over doing nothing.
If anything, teens have been subjected to even harsher rhetorical maligning.
Analyze the use of rhetorical strategies like ethos, pathos and logos.
Thus the state is trying to reinspire entrepreneurs with rhetorical blandishments.
Still, the aesthetic and rhetorical strategies of subcultural trolling live on.
That was a rhetorical question, Leo — the answer is suburban malls.
Yet Xi is entitled to some of his rhetorical point-scoring.
He could pack infinitesimal shadings of nuance into a rhetorical question.
The great negative space of Biden's political career and his rhetorical
And many will not tolerate her rhetorical kinship with the President.
And to be clear, that question is not a rhetorical one.
At onetime or another, all of them became rhetorical punching bags.
The attorney general, for the first time, publicly returned rhetorical fire.
FNC has rhetorical objectives to achieve with these high profile appointments.
Repeating "I think that's sexist" doesn't exactly qualify as rhetorical pyrotechnics.
Like the American president, AMLO is hardly known for rhetorical restraint.
We can't afford to weaponize the issue to score rhetorical points.
Berlusconi has always had a less violent rhetorical style than Trump.
Elizabeth Marvel makes Mark Anthony's speech the highlight of the show and a sharp warning about the modern breed of politicians for whom claiming to lack rhetorical cunning is the most cunning rhetorical strategy in the game.
There may be a kind of rhetorical tap-dancing going on here.
For now, North Korea is sticking to rhetorical attacks, not real ones.
Calls to return to "Regular Order" must be more than rhetorical ploys.
The subject: President Trump's increasingly extreme rhetorical attacks against the news media.
" He begins by asking three rhetorical questions: "How must he educate himself?
Straight talk, for both the Penguin and Trump, was vital rhetorical weapon.
Politicians should prize value for money above political correctness or rhetorical flourish.
But both parties will have rhetorical ammunition to blame the other side.
The extent to which Trump will lead this rhetorical push isn't clear.
It might be illogical, but it is a very clever rhetorical trick.
That may be rhetorical things that he's saying, but it's not actions.
Without the slippery slope argument, conservatism loses much of its rhetorical punch.
Examples from Roman history are not part of Mr. Trump's rhetorical repertoire.
They're rhetorical props in his description of a burned-out American landscape.
There is more than a kernel of truth in this rhetorical excess.
"This could be the first political rhetorical terrorist attack," Illinois Republican Rep.
Or maybe it'll seem like the rhetorical desperation of another presidential wannabe.
She asks a lot of rhetorical questions and disarmingly admits to uncertainty.
By contrast, it's harder to explain the rhetorical charms of Nate Diaz.
For them it is not some abstract talking point or rhetorical crutch.
Such rhetorical flair may make the journalist emotionally satisfied for a moment.
Arthur: Your question of who's against people working is more than rhetorical.
"The amount of rhetorical support you give AI is meaningful," Clark said.
He hopes that the new strategy might be more rhetorical than meaningful.
Finally, the Pulse massacre provided more rhetorical fodder for Donald J. Trump.
Bolsonaro's rhetorical violence will not stop at the level of discourse. For
Thanks to this sort of rhetorical position, his constituents never found out.
But anyone looking for Obama's rhetorical gifts in Harris, will be disappointed.
Yet none have the buccaneering charm or rhetorical powers of Mr. Johnson.
What later opera lost was the rhetorical aspect of the human voice.
It is possible that the judge was just making a rhetorical point.
That was taken by markets as another sign the threats were rhetorical.
So many on the political right are taking a new rhetorical approach.
The quality of thought eliminates the need for pen-twirling rhetorical flourishes.
His prepared speeches and choreographed events obscured his lack of rhetorical agility.
This was rhetorical overreach coming -- for a change -- from a Democratic leader.
The gallery has also posited its own rhetorical questions on the labels.
Is it using rhetorical tools in order to persuade you of something?
It gives me a chance to speak about rhetorical choices as well.
In no way do I mean that to be a rhetorical question.
The judge also characterized Mr. Butowsky's social media attacks as largely rhetorical.
It was a rhetorical question, but this is no ordinary dust-up.
American news consumers become the collateral damage, losers in this rhetorical brawl.
Trump's connection to this alternate right-wing genealogy is not just rhetorical.
References to racial justice remain the rhetorical flourishes of his stump speech.
Far easier to stick with rhetorical flourishes than to attempt any answers.
The problem with this rhetorical line is that it implicitly undercuts itself.
Many will take this question as a puzzle, not a rhetorical lament.
Could be a rhetorical question, but I urge you to answer it.
One rhetorical shot was fired in the hearing room just after noon.
These aren't just rhetorical questions — the $999 Skydio 2 is that drone.
One hopes that we have not painted ourselves into a rhetorical corner.
The First World War only raised the stakes of this rhetorical clash.
In a familiar rhetorical move, he reframed the issue as free speech.
Judging by Chiang's lack of response, I think the question was rhetorical.
So far, the NRA's fight against sentencing reform has been purely rhetorical.
The vulnerability of the pro-choice movement's rhetorical tentpole is hardly unique.
But they can test the rhetorical response of their new adversary or ally.
Trump has focused most of his rhetorical ire on Mexico rather than Canada.
And I say this as someone guilty of taking this rhetorical shortcut myself.
Women have faced rhetorical barrages that make them seem irrational, angry, and weak.
"I've seen restraint from China, and I've seen a rhetorical shift," Willems said.
It's a clever little rhetorical gambit this show is playing — and wickedly so.
America has entered a rhetorical vicious circle that may be impossible to escape.
In this level, you're supposed to match the statement to the rhetorical technique.
Johnson made a plea for loyalty with a typical rhetorical flourish on Sunday.
I believe, until our series, the police response has been rhetorical and amorphous.
This is a question that has long been purely rhetorical - and almost absurd.
Between the lines: The Trump administration's rhetorical offensive can't last forever without results.
" In the same tweet, the President asked the rhetorical question: "Change libel laws?
Of course, all this legal and rhetorical sparring means little in practical terms.
This is not a rhetorical question, and it's not one I can answer.
" CBS's John Dickerson: "using all the rhetorical and symbolic tools at his disposal.
Trump's rhetorical challenges to long-established policy toward China have rattled U.S. corporations.
At the time, Obama's soaring rhetorical style appeared to irritate the bookish Merkel.
They like to throw rhetorical bombs with little regard for the political consequences.
And he's also shown a willingness to push the rhetorical boundaries on race.
These rhetorical blasts, however, just proved to be the calm before the storm.
But when things have gone badly, Trump has embraced a different rhetorical mode.
The problem, to which Axelrod alludes, is rhetorical — one of perception and appearance.
The Clinton administration's encouragement of defense industry mergers would prove anything but rhetorical.
There are formal and rhetorical puzzles in nearly every one of Hayes's poems.
The Democrats totally failed to answer Mr. Trump's rhetorical appeal to black voters.
With Buttigieg, a second rhetorical principle is emerging — one quite distinct from Sanders.
But the conservative justices never stopped their rhetorical assault long enough to listen.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle express more rhetorical support for Medicare.
In competitive mode, there's another mechanic key to a rhetorical heist: takeover cards.
Hello. Later into Saturday night, Musk comes out with this bizarre rhetorical question.
Let's look at a few rhetorical techniques, starting with the most important one.
In lieu of transitions, he reaches for easy, but quite awkward, rhetorical questions.
Second, 2016 marked a key change in rhetorical strategy among Republican presidential candidates.
Bret: Elizabeth Warren has great rhetorical skills and no shortage of moral passion.
But in late July, the pro-impeachment House faction shifted its rhetorical strategy.
It would also recognize that a little rhetorical flourish is allowed in politics.
Then we got along ... [although] we went through a pretty rough rhetorical period.
Efforts to describe it in other terms are an exercise in rhetorical contortionism.
Taking bits and pieces of evidence and emails and giving a rhetorical flourish.
Taken together, his very recent, acute rhetorical shift makes a lot more sense.
Democrats and Republicans appear to be on the cusp of trading rhetorical places.
The rhetorical conceit of James's book is a debate between him and Sartre.
He said he was hopeful the rhetorical shift would drive a substantive one.
This is not some trick of rhetorical prestidigitation or a leap of logic.
For a start, that means surrendering rhetorical techniques that are crude but effective.
The President is also leading the rhetorical charge ahead of the Senate trial.
But some regional observers saw it as little more than a rhetorical exercise.
The rhetorical effort to paint any anti-Republican politics as illegitimate is another.
"If America does it, why can't we?" is a powerful rhetorical question everywhere.
Those rhetorical devices entail correspondences either too concrete (analogy) or too abstract (metaphor).
The overlap in rhetorical approaches between Trump and Nixon are hard to miss.
His rhetorical style is similar to Obama's — or, for that matter, Marco Rubio's.
President Donald Trump has a rhetorical style seemingly without precedent in the White House.
One of the first rhetorical tricks a public speaker will pick up is repetition.
There's an investment, at least a rhetorical investment, at this point, in community engagement.
"Rhetorical sloppiness fosters the misperception that fraud by voters is prevalent," the report stated.
By one measure, it is a mark of his undeniable intellectual and rhetorical talents.
Food occupies a weird space in the visual and rhetorical language of video games.
But the exchanges revealed the rhetorical divide that's come to define their competing campaigns.
Moreover, the sentence is a rhetorical phrase hardly original to Donald Jr.'s speech.
These rhetorical shifts were possible only because the immigration system is so poorly understood.
But one thing he said stood out to me for its clear rhetorical framing.
All of which is the function of her toolbox of rhetorical devices: Suggestive apposition.
But after a display of rhetorical fireworks they will shy away from constitutional conflict.
Leaders of friendly countries like Leo Varadkar, Ireland's Taoiseach, offered rhetorical shows of support.
But they need to deploy the rhetorical and organizational tools of a populist movement.
But not all the White House hopefuls will be part of the rhetorical rumble.
Every morning, Americans wake up to a stream of rhetorical drivel and troubling news.
In a sense that's what makes it powerful: It isn't a merely rhetorical concept.
However, as it's been noted, Trump relies on rhetorical appeals to fear and populism.
A leaked copy of the 2006 edition provides fascinating insight into Luntz's rhetorical strategy.
That might score a quick rhetorical win, but it misses the bigger political picture.
The wall and immigration crackdown would be rhetorical slaps in the face for Mexico.
But she continues to be beleaguered by his sexual indiscretions and ongoing rhetorical missteps.
Gillibrand's question was not rhetorical – the military has repeatedly failed to control sexual misconduct.
Pence also repeatedly made use of a rhetorical strategy that permeates the Trump administration.
And anyone can, with proper rhetorical flourish, play the role of the implicitly underprivileged.
Even though he's a millennial, there's something about his rhetorical style that feels antiquated.
Like many Americans, the country crooner conflates his crude, simplistic rhetorical style with sincerity.
Politico reported that leaders present for the meeting took Trump's suggestion as largely rhetorical.
They may make occasional rhetorical concessions, if the tide of public opinion threatens them.
At the highest rhetorical level, freedom and equality coexisted in a mutually beneficial partnership.
Genuine progressives who understand the policy and rhetorical minefields of the left should help.
What if all of Matilda's rhetorical questions make me realize what I've been missing?
And it finds its rhetorical completion in howling dogs, a story of absolute isolation.
Can you cite an example of a prominent Democrat playing rhetorical games with science?
Clinton grabbed hold of the recording and turned it into a rhetorical battering ram.
In an essay for the London Review of Books , she unleashed her rhetorical gifts.
The call to abolish ICE remains a largely rhetorical, activist position with questionable feasibility.
The White House has embarked on a rhetorical war against the agency without precedent.
And with rhetorical flair, he enunciated the many questions still outstanding in the case.
His sober manner focuses attention on the rhetorical craft and diversity of the arguments.
Still, the administration's hard-line position had received some rhetorical support on Capitol Hill.
The prose is dry and stolid, accompanied by neither rhetorical flourish nor lavish praise.
"I wanted it to be as real as possible," without becoming rhetorical, he said.
He's even bragged about it to establish a rhetorical contrast with Republican fiscal irresponsibility.
Obama has followed a useful rhetorical path, encouraging vigilance but also avoiding empowering terrorists.
As a rhetorical tool, one can slide from one argument to the next easily.
That's Deterrence 101 and the right message to send, albeit without the rhetorical excess.
Obama has also become a rhetorical crutch for Trump to defend his own decisions.
But remember, these are rhetorical strategies and sounding smarter does not mean being smarter.
The vice president was promptly crushed as Trump reversed a rhetorical bus over him.
The implication is a rhetorical question: What's Etsy really going to do to Amazon?
For his part, Biden provided rhetorical support for Obama's policies in a divided government.
But President Obama has combined his military push-back with his characteristic rhetorical restraint.
There is a rhetorical tension, obviously, involved in defending human rights in Venezuela while you ponder a treaty with the Taliban and seek an accommodation with Kim Jong-un or Bashar al-Assad — and Trump is not exactly the master of rhetorical finesse.
There are no rhetorical flourishes, no attempts to impress us with his knowledge or experience.
After Trump's most recent rhetorical volley, political and social leaders have begun to push back.
Tyson was probably just making a rhetorical point in service of a much better one.
The question was rhetorical, but many of them did look nervous—and so they should.
Are Rubio's many instances of raised eyebrows a rhetorical gesture or a heart-felt expression?
But that hasn't stopped him from keeping the term "economic nationalism" in his rhetorical quiver.
Not only does Trump lack a sense of humor, he doesn't know from rhetorical hyperbole.
Calling Fox News "the establishment" is both accurate and a clever bit of rhetorical jujitsu.
Here, too, the mandate was a rhetorical device to enhance the impression of executive power.
Those making the most outlandish rhetorical attacks do not suffer the worst of the backlash.
For us, though, the fact that we are being hunted is not a rhetorical device.
Defriending is a grand rhetorical exercise that hardens hearts and minds instead of changing them.
Michelle Obama, for her part, calmed the tension in a brewing rhetorical war in Philadelphia.
It then concludes with Clinton again asking the rhetorical question about the 50-point spread.
It's all heavy stuff, but there are some unwritten rules to lighten the rhetorical load.
What distinguishes her is an awareness of how propriety can take musical and rhetorical forms.
But analysts say that Russia's pivot east is more rhetorical and political than economically substantial.
We're in the midst of an actual nuclear standoff and watching a rhetorical nuclear explosion.
The rhetorical barbs have egged on a controversy that has broken down along complicated lines.
Derry, New Hampshire (CNN)Chris Christie on primary day continued his rhetorical assault on Sen.
But the company plans more focus on improving products than on winning the rhetorical debate.
And most of all, he retreated into a rhetorical fantasy-scape of his own creation.
His rhetorical rejection of partisan politics goes beyond that: He talks about morality, efficiency, governance.
That question is rhetorical, of course, because anyone who actually knows the answer isn't telling.
Because all the rhetorical violence on stage indicated that the GOP has a breaking point.
What Vargas-Cooper objects to is the "rhetorical" demands of trans people and their allies.
Amid Trump's rhetorical rapid-fire, it's easy to lose sight of the actual facts here.
Like Christie, Gingrich has rhetorical flair and leaps at the opportunity to deliver a dagger.
However, when I step back from the rhetorical love fest, I think about Jemele Hill.
Rubio's is not a new rhetorical ploy, of course, nor is it unique to him.
It's certainly part of his pre-presidential persona, using brute rhetorical force against his opponents.
Leftists have less of a feel for the rhetorical skill of politicians on the right.
The characterization of the modern workplace as a human rental arrangement is not just rhetorical.
It's not an argument about policy or the electoral ground war, but about rhetorical technique.
He made his case with rhetorical flair and a zest inspired by his Italian heritage.
"This could be the first political rhetorical terrorist attack and that has to stop," Rep.
There will be more rhetorical outbursts from North Korea, which will likely cancel more meetings.
His rhetorical style will come across to young and independent voters as smarmy and oleaginous.
Rhetorical claims aside, Republicans have long tended in practice to be more protectionist than Democrats.
This might seem like a minor rhetorical point or finger-wagging by egghead legal scholars.
This rhetorical jujitsu is his way of evading responsibility for the abuses taking place there.
Clinton just discovered the dangers of a rhetorical question, courtesy of a new Trump ad.
The biggest change the paper is advocating for is rhetorical: Results that currently meet the .
"Clean coal" has become a rhetorical gesture of fealty to the conservative tribe, nothing more.
And some of his longtime friends are urging him not to don a rhetorical straitjacket.
Still, it would be another two years before his legislative program matched his rhetorical ambitions.
But for a man with Mr. Modi's rhetorical skill, facts are easy to set aside.
Using rhetorical gimmicks to dismiss reasonable doubts may be clever but it is not informative.
Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist The title of this post is an actual question, not rhetorical.
People who indulge in this kind of rhetorical inflation are like rats spreading bubonic plague.
In addition, U.S. courts have said "rhetorical hyperbole" associated with politics is constitutionally protected speech.
"What is racist?" she asked, posing one of the most ill-advised rhetorical questions ever.
So he's been a, I think, a restraining force within the talk, the rhetorical talk.
Eliminating regulations in general has rhetorical appeal but eliminating particular ones can be very unpopular.
I think our failure on fixing climate change is just a rhetorical failure of imagination.
Notably, liberals were inclined to support the candidate regardless of which rhetorical approach he took.
But the judiciary panel still managed to achieve similar levels of partisanship and rhetorical bitterness.
He sang a crescendoing sexual proposition that eventually devolved into a series of rhetorical statements.
But there are moments in his rhetorical flourishes when those qualities come into clear view.
Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar have the rhetorical skills to turn Trump's taunts against him.
A few times, he's stumbled down rhetorical side streets before deciding to turn back around.
They're just trolling, a rhetorical mode that's become increasingly central to conservative politics in America.
It's a rhetorical sham, but a kind of brilliant one when you think about it.
Conservatives who bristled at what they considered Mr. Obama's weak approach offered few complaints about the president's taunting escalation, arguing that Mr. Kim was a bully and the best way to stand up to a bully was to match him, rhetorical blow for rhetorical blow.
The judge said that Trump's tweet was "rhetorical hyperbole," and was protected by the First Amendment.
So despite the red carpet and fine attire, expect a few sharp rhetorical elbows to fly.
Campaigns adopt specific rhetorical strategies—like Clinton's message of calm competence or Trump's gut-punch populism.
He is unquestionably a cultural conservative, yet that rhetorical flourish was honed at Ivy League schools.
But you can see that he wields this privilege in some ways as a rhetorical bludgeon.
It is notable that Trump did not tread this same rhetorical territory in deep-red Louisiana.
And for good measure, throw a rhetorical bone to the President on the whole "spying" thing?
In recent years, though, artists and entertainers have used comedy as a tool of rhetorical deescalation.
During the election she sent me text messages in the rhetorical stylings of the various candidates.
To be clear, I'm not pointing out these rhetorical techniques because I think they're somehow disingenuous.
"Head-to-head, our campaign beats Donald Trump resoundingly," said Cruz, with his usual rhetorical flair.
For a while the threat to the survival of the agreement looked more rhetorical than real.
This is not a rhetorical question: will you join us and vote to adopt the resolution?
For many, her defense—that she'd used "a rhetorical flourish, to voice [her] frustration" —wasn't enough.
Eh, it was a rhetorical question, you never really get to choose this sort of thing.
"This could be the first political rhetorical terrorist attack, and that has to stop," he said.
Soon, though, Mr Trump took out his rhetorical machete and began whirling it above his head.
He engages in what some might call tawdry rhetorical wars with his critics and political adversaries.
It's also possible that the differences between Trump and his cabinet are more rhetorical than anything.
Again, this was a rhetorical trick of fascism, played out in the medium of mass communication.
In this sense, the game points to the increasing role of video as a rhetorical tool.
The group uses published resources, analogies and other rhetorical and educational tools to support their arguments.
"Two guys from Queens," Holder said earlier this year, setting up a rhetorical race against Trump.
The overarching theme—whose only rhetorical virtue was that it tested well with focus groups—was
The White House did not offer a comment on Wednesday morning on the administration's rhetorical shift.
The president's critics have crossed a rhetorical line from which there can be no turning back.
The lay-low strategy is a departure in style for a president accustomed to rhetorical bombast.
Not because of some deep seated hate for coloured people, but simply from a rhetorical standpoint.
The point of the book is more the rhetorical techniques rather than the why behind it.
Whether Araeen's assertion is true is subject to debate, but his rhetorical point is well taken.
This allows them to focus on higher-order concerns, such as rhetorical structure and word choice.
I was so taken aback that I came very close to answering her rhetorical question myself.
Rote rhetorical appeals to limited government and the free market remained, but the substance was exhausted.
The rhetorical battle between liberal Californians and a conservative administration is now a full-fledged fight.
North Korea has forgone nuclear tests, missile tests and rhetorical attacks for more than 400 days.
Gavin Newsom, who's also taken rhetorical aim at the president's policies on immigration and the environment.
These rhetorical moves all serve to conceal the fact that they have nothing verifiable to add.
But there are two blatant exceptions to his saturating rhetorical fire: Vladimir Putin and Stormy Daniels.
For Trump, the issue seemingly isn't one to fix but is rhetorical fuel for the fire.
The rhetorical bombs have kept long-simmering frustrations in the headlines ahead of the crucial stretch.
NEWS ANALYSIS Even for a president who rarely spares the rhetorical howitzer, this was something new.
At that moment of vexation, Washington may breathe rhetorical fire and call for more stringent sanctions.
For all his rhetorical skill, Dzu was projected to take just 4 percent of the vote.
Are we to consider his more intemperate phrases "rhetorical flourishes," or does he really mean them?
The president combines the rhetorical impulses of Bob Dornan with the strategic instincts of Dennis Kucinich.
Government is rarely more than a rhetorical labor ally, candidates courting union leadership for their backing.
Cillizza: Is it possible for Trump to go to a different rhetorical level in his SOTU?
The disconnect between Trump's rhetorical style and the traditional parameters of his job isn't mere coincidence.
Labeling it as such has been a huge rhetorical coup by apologists for unbridled federal power.
Watching candidates in the single digits throw wild rhetorical Hail Marys against  Biden is pretty boring.
But then Kanye landed the (rhetorical) plane -- somehow -- and Trump seemed thrilled with all the attention.
The key rhetorical strategy Miller employs here is what's known in the industry, technically, as lying.
That's a completely different type of rhetorical approach than we were used to from earlier painters.
That setting is more intimate and can serve as a check on the angriest rhetorical impulses.
It is rhetorical support for a carbon tax that is, for all intents and purposes, impossible.
But it's a hazy instruction, and maybe intentionally so: Booker's looking for rhetorical cover in a political climate in which super PACs have transformed from a financial necessity into a public-relations vulnerability; Phillips has enough rhetorical cover, too, to claim he hasn't been totally disavowed.
"These sorts of rhetorical commitments that (Trump) made on the campaign trail cannot become policy," she said.
Obviously brains help and rhetorical skills are a great asset, but for my money, empathy matters most.
The speech would mark the latest escalation in a rhetorical tit-for-tat between Washington and Beijing.
This is partly a rhetorical term for anyone that Mr López Obrador does not get along with.
Despite that recent rhetorical wrist-slapping, Beijing's propaganda mouthpieces have been equally critical of Trump and Clinton.
Both presidents remain popular in their countries, practising a rhetorical form of violence alongside the physical kind.
One of the really interesting things about Obama in that 2004-2008 period was his rhetorical style.
Scholars have used this technique, in fact, to show how politicians' rhetorical approaches have evolved over time.
That's a rhetorical question, because in both cases, if you haven't consented, it's a lose-lose situation.
All of this sounds threatening, and it is certainly a clear rhetorical shift from the last administration.
A possible compromise could see Fidesz tone down its posters and express some regret for rhetorical excesses.
For Asian leaders, Trump's off-the-cuff style, freewheeling tweets, and rhetorical hyperbole, must have been daunting.
"The rhetorical commitments to be "back" will have to be matched by real financial commitments," he said.
It's a rhetorical indictment of Rowling's consistent reluctance to allow her series to evolve in meaningful ways.
It is, for now, "a rhetorical race to Sirte", says Jason Pack of Libya-Analysis, a consultancy.
International support notwithstanding, Guaido's claim is mostly rhetorical unless Maduro chooses to loosen his grip on power.
You cannot let a Nazi hang himself, because he is the one left holding the rhetorical rope.
" He continued, "For all of her rhetorical gifts, she's never really too far out on a limb.
Iowa officials are accustomed to twisting themselves into rhetorical pretzels to justify the state's antiquated caucus system.
BANGKOK — The denunciations have swirled through Thailand's gilded palaces with the rhetorical extravagance of a Shakespearean history.
"What evidence of a crime do you have?" he said, posing a rhetorical question for House Democrats.
Claims that the Clean Power Plan would raise electricity costs rely on a rhetorical sleight-of-hand.
Reid fully states his argument only once the narrative has gained the rhetorical force of living actuality.
He is capable of rhetorical organization; more often he scatters his rhetoric like seed, or like curses.
"Sorry, it's how I negotiate," the president said, defending his abrupt policy gyrations and rhetorical switch-backs.
Because it works within its own rhetorical tradition, Amateur is marked by a heavy flavor of conclusion.
It appears to be little more than an indulgence in rhetorical finger wagging at their fellow citizens.
On Monday night, the president continued his escalating rhetorical war with Omarosa Manigault Newman, his former aide.
Certainly, low unemployment numbers can provide Trump with an important rhetorical weapon against a potential Democratic wave.
To explain its de-escalation to a domestic audience, the regime has twisted itself into rhetorical knots.
During the week of brainstorming, class lessons were focused on defining Aristotle's rhetorical triangle (ethos, pathos, logos).
It was a restrained, PG-rated debate in a primary campaign drenched in vulgarity and rhetorical bile.
Trump's economic policies are a barrage of rhetorical statements that rely on populist fear and bigoted nostalgia.
Or give them time to reflect by asking rhetorical questions that could be answered with a moan.
Why it matters: The rhetorical heat is only going to intensify as we head into the midterms.
Bannon's rhetorical move of transforming vices based on irrational prejudice into virtues is not without historical precedent.
Her inquiry isn't the performance of a rhetorical move, but a persistent challenge of the yet unanswerable.
Outside of the rhetorical realm, it is not clear what degree of international support she can muster.
After a presidential campaign dominated by rhetorical appeals to cultural wedge issues, Haidt's insights are worth considering.
That intention and its rhetorical and regulatory follow-ons have executives at large and small companies celebrating.
My second point is to underscore the role Justice Thomas plays in creating this rhetorical tidal wave.
But his rhetorical failure, as Fleischer suggested, isn't just about the country's impasse on this particular issue.
All of this left me lost inside one of the many rhetorical riddles inherent to the internet.
" To eliminate sports doping, he added, "there can be no compromise, no middle ground, no rhetorical acrobatics.
She received her B.S. in communications and rhetorical studies with a minor in art photography from Syracuse.
The book is full of Reynolds' rhetorical flourishes and asides, which are at turns entertaining and devastating.
And his rhetorical excesses will most likely reinforce fears that he's a radical in a pragmatist's clothing.
Put aside the public rhetorical broadsides directed at Democrats and look at what happened behind the scenes.
In a rhetorical pirouette, his Wednesday speech delivered a repudiation of much of what Trump stands for.
It was bizarre to me that the two groups would have the same rhetorical and tactical strategies.
Amid the time's cross-firing models of aesthetic and rhetorical innovation, she struggled less forward than inward.
Yet the party and most progressives are largely caught up in tactical, rhetorical attacks on Mr. Trump.
" Early in the film, Mr. Reiner asks a rhetorical question: "How come we got the extra years?
Still, there is at least some evidence that the FTC's concern with killer acquisitions isn't just rhetorical.
Meanwhile, as Chris pointed out above, this debate demonstrated that there's a limit to Buttigieg's rhetorical strengths.
In high school in Houston, he sharpened his rhetorical and critical-thinking skills on the debate team.
The truth is that victory will require much more than being able to deliver a rhetorical punch.
The administration has so far sent out mixed rhetorical signals over the hotly disputed South China Sea.
Now it extends to rhetorical force — a well-timed and withering joke or an irrefutable debate line.
This solidarity around socio-political circumstances comes through, as I grok the rhetorical variety of the signs.
The attitude doesn't extend to other professionals, but the ancient rhetorical division between art and artists persists.
These are rhetorical questions; anyone mildly familiar with American cultural history knows the dynamics at play here.
The comments, made in an interview with the BBC that was published Monday, mark a rhetorical escalation.
This is more of a rhetorical statement being used to play to the popular anti-Pakistan sentiment.
Harris's fearless, cut-the-crap rhetorical style will probably serve her well in this pugilistic political moment.
To Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, these rhetorical attacks have rippled outward.
Instead, thanks to his "people" and his own rhetorical shifts, he's ended up in a weirder position.
It was a rhetorical move that multiple major Republican voices condemned, including Marco Rubio and John McCain.
But sarcasm as a whole, sarcasm qua rhetorical device, dulls the positive or negative emotion being expressed.
The idea of the Justice League existing without Batman is supposed to be a big rhetorical nope.
That's a familiar rhetorical move, implying that all publicly funded science can only be politicized and wasteful.
Last night, Hillary Clinton's nomination-accepting speech at the Democratic National Convention included a number of rhetorical flourishes.
And as we've learned over the past year, what seems like rhetorical bluster can start to add up.
King's beliefs, by all accounts, are sincere, but his approach to lawmaking is, like his rhetorical outbursts, performative.
The rhetorical flourish struck a nerve, in part because it spoke to a fundamental truth about his campaign.
Sure, the Trump administration is doing plenty of rhetorical posturing while North Korea is firing off missile tests.
The rhetorical and behavioral overlaps between early Anonymous and the alt-right help place both groups in context.
I can only say that I know him for — really well, it's been very rhetorical, as you know.
Solomon took this as a rhetorical challenge, and began searching for evidence to cast doubt on the statement.
The editorial mentioned two unconfirmed incidents in upstate New York and offered a series of frightening rhetorical questions.
LONDON — Extending an offer to the Twittersphere — even the rhetorical, angry, throwaway kind — can be a risky business.
While Trump's statements are in line with American policy, they're out of step with this traditional rhetorical requirement.
The town hall debate combines the best of both and adds in a little rhetorical MMA for texture.
To be successful, he's had to construct a rhetorical style that mobilized support outside of the party's mainstream.
The question, of course, is unfortunately almost entirely rhetorical, as long as politicians remain obedient to the NRA.
The other rhetorical strategy is simply to refuse to believe that the system will do what it says.
The media bought into the idea that Gore was a rhetorical giant and Bush was a oratorical pygmy.
He has consistently used rhetorical sleights of hand to say outrageous things without being held responsible for them.
The notice of proposed rulemaking released today is full of questions: some reasonable, some rhetorical and some desperate.
Clinton's rhetorical strategy of insinuating that Obama was too black to be president was echoed by her campaign.
I don't want to ruin the rhetorical scale but that is sort of like getting a little obsolete.
The CBS poll asked about Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib in the midst of Trump's rhetorical attacks.
"Johnson shares some rhetorical tricks with Trump," attributing comments that might cause offense to other people, said Seargeant.
It all really boils down to that question of experience and interpretation deactivating some of that rhetorical apparatus.
Late last year, rhetorical questions like "Have you thanked a black woman today?" were all over social media.
Those periods have become broad theory, used to gain rhetorical leverage and appropriated to establish moral high ground.
Why it matters: The leaders of two nuclear-armed nations are engaged in a rhetorical game of chicken.
This is why it's important to remind ourselves that these people are more than just a rhetorical trope.
"Johnson shares some rhetorical tricks with Trump," attributing comments that might cause offense to other people, said Seargeant.
Politicians and pundits often intone that there are "a multitude" of new energy options, but that's rhetorical hyperbole.
They view her as tough, admire her rhetorical skills, and believe she'd powerfully convey Trump's anti-establishment message.
Buttigieg's rhetorical gift, thanks to his red-state upbringing, is selling Democratic policy through a less partisan lens.
Between its uncompromising, blistering rage and its condemnatory rhetorical stance, the play has many echoes of Biblical prophecy.
As Clinton showed the world what presidential leadership looks like, an unhinged Trump went into a rhetorical abyss.
But it will provide rhetorical support, so that Pruitt can claim his decisions are based on sound science.
The way to resolve the paradox is to eschew ideological litmus tests and insist on rhetorical ones instead.
He's calling it "rhetorical deportation" — and he suggested Wednesday that Trump might be open to embracing the concept.
While its ideas might be laughable to most, the creation of doubt is a pernicious and rhetorical agent.
Bee has been strong-armed into apologizing for a rhetorical flourish of which Chaucer would have been proud.
Hoyer's weekly sparring matches with McCarthy on the House floor offer a regular exposition of his rhetorical dexterity.
There is rhetorical strategy: "He has exaggerated to compensate for people who don't like him," Mr. Nadler said.
But machines are aeons away from being able to recreate rhetorical and argumentative flow across paragraphs and pages.
Rouhani, forever trying to triangulate, waxed rhetorical against the U.S. but left open the possibility of direct negotiations.
In this instance, "state flexibility" is just a rhetorical device exploited to advance a government-knows-best agenda.
"Johnson shares some rhetorical tricks with Trump," attributing comments that might cause offence to other people, said Seargeant.
The United States and North Korea are in a dangerous cycle of escalating military threats and rhetorical exchanges.
The real-world link between rhetorical sleight of hand and power needs, instead, to be explored and exposed.
The experienced diplomat Martin Griffiths, special envoy of the UN Secretary General, needs substantive, not just rhetorical, backing.
Perhaps no Republican on Capitol Hill is in a better position to thwart Trump's legislative and rhetorical bombast.
So far, the tensions between the US and Europe remain rhetorical; there have been no concrete policy changes.
One is not a "science denier" if one disagrees with the rhetorical or policy judgments of climate scientists.
But in saying this, the military defines Africa as "ungovernable," and creates the rhetorical foundation to justify intervention.
This rhetorical device is common in politics: Attempting to discredit a position instead of responding to a question.
The Harris comments underscore a new, if subtle, rhetorical shift on the campaign trail among the 2020 Democrats.
So while NOPEC may score some immediate rhetorical points, it is bad for America and the global economy.
The challenges of this enterprise go beyond merely finding the rhetorical and material resources to brush deception aside.
His rhetorical genius made its way onto dozens of recordings that were treasured possessions in many black homes.
As evidenced in Philadelphia this week, her rhetorical abilities pale in comparison to politicians like Obama and Biden.
Amiable and voluble, Li speaks with the rhetorical flourish of a man who has told his story often.
But for those fighters' commanders, lethality has doubled as a rhetorical godsend: clinical-sounding, but visceral as well.
I was longing for the kind of largeness of spirit and rhetorical authority of a writer like Thoreau.
And speaking of work belied by its rhetorical scaffolding, the work by Juliana Huxtable is the most disappointing.
That speech, The Negro and the Constitution, displayed hints of the rhetorical mastery he'd show later in life.
The old rhetorical guardrails — trust us, there's a hard stop on how far left we'll go — are gone.
This is a somewhat rhetorical question, given that the year is almost over, but not a facetious one.
There is also the matter of Mr. Brownback, Ms. Kelly's favorite rhetorical target, not being in Kansas anymore.
The kitchen table was a rhetorical battleground in 2008, in 2012, and it will be again in 2020.
What Trump Jr. is doing here then is using rhetorical hyperbole for the political benefit of his father.
Whatever is in Trump's mind, he forced his press team into more rhetorical somersaults to justify his behavior.
Their rhetorical choices have grave implications for the meaning of the acquittal the president is likely to receive.
At times he broke rhetorical taboos, attacking the human rights record of the security forces and the judiciary.
Behind the scenes, her team was already pressing to get the senator on firmer rhetorical and financial footing.
Sharma elaborately explain herself, setting her up as an unreliable narrator who prefers rhetorical questions to self-criticism.
Hill's question was rhetorical, but the American public may get an answer Thursday to the scenario she posed.
" At his news conference, Mr. Trump posed a rhetorical question to the assembled reporters, "Where does it stop?
Hence one rhetorical strategy of the alt-right, which constantly gestures toward Nazism without actually assuming the designation.
But however wild the rhetorical ride inside the UN, it will be nothing compared to storms erupting outside.
Kim's softer gesture, in view of his proclivity for rhetorical bellicosity, creates excitement and expectations of diplomatic progress.
Whomever Johnson might have meant for the gods to destroy, this was no purely rhetorical threat in 1866.
Spitfires and talk of Britain's finest hour made a rhetorical comeback in the UKIP campaign to leave Europe.
The rhetorical ambition of the Sanders/Warren camp can sometimes make it seem like they reject all compromise.
The accused man refused to defend himself and answered the governor's queries with rhetorical questions of his own.
And she repeatedly sought to stoke speculation with non answers, rhetorical winks and you-know-what-I-means.
Thee problems will not go away and the rhetorical assertion of force neither meliorates them nor facilitates resolution.
Of course, despite this rhetorical right, we are still a long way from parity and equity in politics.
But principled opposition requires that progressive opponents of President Trump not distort their beliefs for quick rhetorical wins.
He has also turned to a familiar rhetorical trick: citing support from vaguely defined and often improbable sources.
With its rhetorical ruminations and dramatizations of historical events, Francofonia could be considered Sokurov's stab at creative criticism.
A necessarily rhetorical exercise, this chapter looks beyond Grand Arts and suggests concrete ways to keep moving forward.
Whatever rhetorical advantage the dissent may see in doing so, Korematsu has nothing to do with this case.
Trump's rhetorical and policy attacks happen to focus on the same institutions — the ones that help safeguard democracy.
I have joined the Toastmasters public speaking group, improved my rhetorical skills, and explored opportunities in political journalism.
But her shift in rhetorical focus on policy means that a sense of "knowing" the candidates gains greater prominence.
It does, and it's a very recognizable one to readers familiar with the favorite rhetorical tropes of President Trump.
The equation of the death penalty and murder is not just the rhetorical gesture of foreign critics like Camus.
It was a multipurpose tool to enhance two kinds of power nobility demanded at the time: martial and rhetorical.
" He also said in the court filing Monday night that the tweet was "the definition of protected rhetorical hyperbole.
They've become defensive, self-serious and aggressive, and they've adopted Trump's rhetorical penchant for hyperbole, bombast and fact-blurring.
Left-wing governments came to power, turning Mercosur into a "rhetorical project", says Rubens Barbosa, a Brazilian ex-diplomat.
Pieces in the press openly compare him to demagogues in history, and he clearly has an unusual rhetorical style.
Most people pointed out that the speech, which was big on rhetorical platitudes, was very short on actual details.
Well, no, but asking the question is a useful rhetorical device when you're trying to get out of trouble.
In Rakhine state, the Rohingyas have not even received a rhetorical acknowledgment from Miss Suu Kyi of their plight.
This supposed "translation" is ersatz, a phony rhetorical device meant to convey Western cynicism through a counterfeit Confucian motto.
As he closed, Trump trod a well-worn rhetorical path of asking his people to get out and vote.
But his entire rhetorical approach to the infrastructure question simply doubles-down on the problems with our current strategy.
And honestly, it seems like she's more interested in changing the vote just to flex her own rhetorical muscles.
Nor has China, which has seized the rhetorical high ground vacated by America, matched its fine words with actions.
Nonetheless, rhetorical support for democracy was a centerpiece of US foreign policy in Latin America until the Trump administration.
The more Trump's wing of the GOP makes it a key rhetorical cornerstone, the narrower the path for progress.
Step 1: Ask a rhetorical question that focuses on the problems your marketplace faces, and that you can fix.
Saying American schools are "flush with cash" and students are "deprived of all knowledge" is quite a rhetorical flourish.
In addition to adopting the rhetorical position of Biblical prophecy, it also plays with Biblical material in clever ways.
And, in any case, these rhetorical acts of chivalry fly in the face of their legislative acts of misogyny.
It's been more than a rhetorical question since January, after a video, pulled from the social media platform Live.
But there is a rhetorical briar patch within which private choices at the end-of-life could get caught.
These expanded boundaries protected inflammatory language in the name of "telling it like it is" without rhetorical window dressing.
"The rhetorical question is whether we have seen the peak (of rating upgrade cycle) for emerging markets," he said.
Claiming to be a Michael-Moore style underdog therefore appears merely to be one of the film's rhetorical tricks.
Will we see the rhetorical equivalent of the people's elbow delivered to the solar plexus of his political opponents?
After staying largely on the sidelines of the race, they're unleashing a rhetorical firestorm against the anti-establishment candidate.
"Science is a distraction, it's a rhetorical gotcha," said Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
He said he expects the rhetorical tit-for-tat to continue as the November deadline on sanctions reimposition approaches.
The vote didn't expose any hypocrisy, but it did reveal the speech for the empty rhetorical gesture it was.
Obama has walked that rhetorical tightrope as he weighed in on killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.
This requires buying into the moral relativism at the heart of Trump's deny, distract, deflect and divide rhetorical strategy.
That discussion you just mentioned was a rhetorical discussion about societal changes and what's happened, what's happened to shame.
This explains, in part, why the GOP has focused on the rhetorical excesses of a handful of progressive Democrats.
On occasion, he drops some "rhetorical bombs," as he has called them, but he prefers a measured, pragmatic approach.
Morgan never alludes to a rhetorical performance by one of her characters without inserting it whole into her text.
Reach out to uncommitted voters Trump's unique rhetorical style played a huge part in him winning the GOP nomination.
This language is not merely rhetorical, but serves as a binding constraint in the agency's operations during judicial review.
But that didn't stop Biden, Buttigieg and others from hitting her for her rhetorical embrace of Medicare for All.
The two senators have also frequently engage in rhetorical battles on the floor over myriad policy and political fights.
The organization has been firing rhetorical salvoes at centrist figures from National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn to Sen.
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Whether his opposition will be largely rhetorical or he'll actually try to be a check on Trump is unclear.
Your book is about spotting the common rhetorical tricks that politicians use when they're distorting science for political purposes.
She asks lengthy, essentially rhetorical questions and occasionally prompts the experts to confirm that what she's saying is correct.
Large "I Am Gauri" demonstrations arose nationwide in outrage at the increasing attacks, rhetorical and physical, on Indian journalists.
Senator Flake demonstrated that his rhetorical denunciations of President Trump would not translate into effective opposition to administration policy.
She is an old-fashioned English public servant, devoid of bombast and rhetorical flourish, and uninterested in personal power.
That's a rhetorical question, and so I'm not obligated to answer, and yet I will: It simply is not.
Collusion — or a lack of it — turns out to have been the rhetorical trap that ensnared President Trump's pursuers.
A Times review of Mr. Buttigieg's writings, starting in college, found that rhetorical task to be a consistent preoccupation.
While a few countries like Russia have offered rhetorical support for Turkey, Qatar is the first to pledge money.
How many rhetorical and substantive blandishments would he offer to Sanders supporters, as he starts to unify the party?
In today's rhetorical climate, it's not just a handful of entitled engineers who feel empowered to impugn certain groups.
More than pushing untested medicine on vulnerable patients, this rhetorical crusade may prove to be abortion reversal's biggest risk.
It's just one more rhetorical trick Trump uses to give people the feeling that he feels what they feel.
But how much of that optimism is rhetorical, and how much of it is actually likely to become reality?
Solving these problems requires us to move beyond this rhetorical stalemate and objectively observe the facts on the ground.
He can cling to statistics as a kind of rhetorical security blanket, firing off numbers where concision would do.
Even for a president who rarely spares the rhetorical howitzer, this was new, our chief White House correspondent writes.
But Mr. Trump read stiffly from a teleprompter and his words lacked the rhetorical flourishes of other wartime presidents.
" A Democratic senator, evoking the rhetorical stylings of George W. Bush, called Iran a nation "full of malevolent evildoers.
In short, reappropriation is an American specialty — a rhetorical stratagem practiced even before the Declaration of Independence was signed.
The same putative "solutions" get recycled: negotiations, economic sanctions, rhetorical bluster, pressure by China and Russia, United Nations intervention.
He also refused to support House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who is a rhetorical punching bag for the GOP.
And it is true: On many levels, despite all the rhetorical thunder, little has changed in substance, so far.
Items taken for granted by the public, like spacesuits, may be inadequate to meet the rhetorical needs of politicians.
The young man, however, declares that the formula is nothing but a "rhetorical coverup" for an erosion of liberties.
Op-Ed columnistsStudents follow a Times columnist over several weeks to get to know his or her rhetorical style.
It would be a mistake to assume this sabre-rattling is merely a rhetorical dustup that will end peacefully.
The speech was less a grand rhetorical moonshot and more a practical greatest-hits medley drawn from the campaign.
Those phrases are part of the rhetorical toolkit opponents of affirmative action have long used to attack the policy.
Even a rhetorical question will make a distracted colleague look up from their iPhone and reengage in your material.
But Risch said the argument has rhetorical force because Allergan might balk at being compared to a payday lender.
I tweeted about it, asking a largely rhetorical question about where in the Bible these alleged gun rights exist.
And it is only in this context that the rhetorical backlash to the wealth tax can be fully understood.
"It's time for the United States to make good on its rhetorical promises and lead through action," Gardner said.
The media and establishment politicians only note Trump's rhetorical excesses, which they see as off-putting to many Americans.
For all its rhetorical flair, we know little about how extreme vetting is defined or how it's being implemented.
The nation faces many challenges, of course, but the rhetorical brick bats being lobbed around only exacerbate the division.
His address was a rhetorical journey from elation about the economy to condemnation of a familiar group of targets.
There's a fair amount of soliloquizing and rhetorical grandstanding, which is also true of Shakespeare, hip-hop and church.
According to a transcript of his remarks, though, Trump could have gone a different route with his rhetorical jab.
So he just manufactured a moment to add more fuel to the rhetorical blaze he has ignited over immigration.
In his preferred rhetorical constructs, Trump is putting "America First," counterposing the interests of natives with those of newcomers.
Candidate Trump could get away with lobbing rhetorical grenades and not thinking too much about their real-world impact.
More, this rhetorical posture of hanging back away from the dispute feels mistaken because its deployment is so wobbly.
The connection between Trump's rhetorical attacks on Mexicans and his supporters' attacks on Mexicans is lost on no one.
" Long irritated by the rhetorical branding, President Trump finally came up with his own rejoinder: "Americans are Dreamers, too.
" "(Asked on whether the new European Commission president should be a former head of government) It is a rhetorical question.
I've prepared my debating points, I've been working on my rhetorical arguments, and I think I've got the stronger case.
Their inauguration will be a rhetorical, and when I mean civil disobedience, not violence, but it will be a bloodbath.
Rhetorical whiplash On camera, Trump took a much less combative tone in an interview with Fox News that aired Sunday.
" He wields them on Twitter in double-spaced sentences, creating rhetorical spaces that allow readers to "let that sink in.
"Being black confers the advantage of rhetorical victimhood," says Shapiro, host of "The Morning Answer" radio show in Los Angeles.
But the opinions these judges write are different (something Posner, who understands judicial opinions as rhetorical performances, should care about).
Here to illustrate that point is Twitter user Zane Golia's supercut of Star Trek star Jonathan Frakes asking rhetorical questions.
Inevitably, the rhetorical promises AT&T executives made today were total bullshit—but they might just get away with it.
The unease is further compounded by the technical complexity of the issue, which oftentimes leads candidates outside their rhetorical wheelhouse.
The rhetorical threats have worried the other countries who are part of the agreement: Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia.
"As foreign minister Liberman had the ability in the past to lob rhetorical grenades that required no response," Makovsky said.
If you lowered the rhetorical temperature, you might just add numbers to your support going into the midterms and beyond.
" But Judge S. James Otero dismissed her suit in October, saying Trump's tweet was "the definition of protected rhetorical hyperbole.
"Almost any threat could be perceived as warranting some sort of response that's not only rhetorical, but operational," Blair said.
Despite the ugliness early on, Trump showed rhetorical skill in a measured tone not often seen on the campaign trail.
At times he crossed traditional rhetorical boundaries, openly attacking the human rights record of the security forces and the judiciary.
In spite of rhetorical beatings from the Trump administration, the press is free to print and broadcast as it likes.
Those tactics are the rhetorical equivalent of shouting fire in that crowded theater, designed to generate panic and fuel hysteria.
But snippets released so far suggest it will at least sustain the party's rhetorical commitment to badly needed economic reforms.
One of the clever rhetorical tricks Natarajan used was to close the perceived gap between his opponent's position and his.
Withdrawal from the accord, at this point, is merely a rhetorical win—but Pruitt's allies claim this proves his effectiveness.
The public would be wise to reject the cyphers on both sides and focus on the factual over the rhetorical.
Perhaps no one is as fond of this rhetorical maneuver as the United States' forty-fifth president, Donald J. Trump.
This question is the rhetorical blueprint I pose to students before they begin what I call the "Real Man" experiment.
The First Amendment surely allows for making rhetorical statements about any cause through the use or withdrawal of commercial speech.
But there is no new prize for Trump, the presidential name-caller, in a pitched rhetorical battle with a dictator.
Bigger artworks enter the field in the third section, "Political and Social Expressions," likely because of their intended rhetorical function.
Moreover, the rhetorical focus on rural communities ignores many of the people who are most hurt by the digital divide.
Explanations are often offered for Perry's rhetorical bumbling, but his flubs are too consistent for him to be constantly drunk.
This was sadly just the latest in a series of rhetorical and real efforts to undermine our foreign policy structures.
To readers familiar with the rhetorical currency of the Middle East conflict, the metaphor is transparent: Legitimacy demands continued presence.
So let me use a different term: authenticism, for the philosophical and rhetorical strategy of emphasizing the "authentic" above all.
Or should they fight and fight and fight -- refusing to concede no matter what rhetorical attacks he leveled at them?
" But she later added as she walked a rhetorical tightrope, "I don't believe journalists are the enemy of the people.
The California Democrat, who is unpopular nationally, has become a reliable rhetorical target for the GOP in recent election years.
On a rhetorical level, it shifts the Overton window towards the idea that everyone in the country deserves comprehensive coverage.
A map of the world is a visual statement, a rhetorical demonstration of knowledge of far-flung peoples and places.
MLB has said its testing shows no such alterations, but also has the rhetorical "out" that it isn't the manufacturer.
It's not a rhetorical question, and the answer is that Golden State would probably just shrug and do their thing.
Gradual escalation against U.S. and allied interests as well as rhetorical bluster are therefore favorites of decision-makers in Tehran.
While the administration has touted the national security benefits of the travel ban, those benefits are more rhetorical than real.
There's also their hypocrisy and corruption, as well as the triviality and rhetorical wasteland that characterizes much of public discourse.
It is one thing for Mr. Avenatti, the telegenic anti-Trump id, to seize this kind of rhetorical real estate.
But over and over again, we've seen that voters just don't care that much about malapropisms and meandering rhetorical styles.
But from the enthusiasm in Super's voice, I gather this is more of a pipe dream than a rhetorical question.
I mean, if we're going to take off the rhetorical gloves, then be prepared for everyone to take them off.
He was a president of limited rhetorical talent in a time of a highly personalized and media-packaged presidential politics.
But how Sanders has responded to the new revelations says something about the rhetorical methods she uses to avoid accountability.
"Do not leave me; stay focused," he said, a rhetorical wink that also put us on his shoulder, riding along.
What had been a rhetorical battle between a liberal state and a conservative administration is now a full-fledged fight.
Where does the conservative commitment to limited government and individual freedom, always more rhetorical than real, finally go to die?
The budget from Rome is the first real, and not just rhetorical, assault on the establishment order of the bloc.
And this rhetorical maneuver almost perfectly parallels the devious end run at the core of right-wing color blindness orthodoxy.
Catherine Opie answers T Magazine's artist's questionnaire ahead of her forthcoming exhibition, "Rhetorical Landscapes," opening in Los Angeles this winter.
"The headline was written as a rhetorical device, using understatement to make a point," said Tom Jolly, associate masthead editor.
Vice President Biden The vice president himself would probably acknowledge that he doesn't have the rhetorical polish of his boss.
A bit of outrage is good, but having your only rhetorical register as outrage is always going to be unsuccessful.
Laying the rhetorical groundwork for this red line is where the American supporters of the two-state solution should focus.
The magazine's editors tried to take the rhetorical high ground, arguing that all sides were flawed and impeachment wasn't warranted.
That secured 128 of 193 votes in support of the Palestinian argument, but was only a rhetorical show of support.
If you win power through rhetorical violence, and by hating those who disagree, your regime will be angry and destructive.
If you win power through rhetorical violence, and by hating those who disagree, your regime will be angry and destructive.
Each post was written in the style of The Associated Press: stripped of rhetorical flourish, straightforward, just the simple facts.
He was a hugely popular figure in Iran, and a frequent rhetorical target of President Donald Trump and his aides.
That sounds like a rhetorical question, but Jordana Kier, founder of organic feminine care brand LOLA, actually wants to know.
With a heavily contested presidential election only three months away, Mexico's politicians have been forced to up the rhetorical ante.
She deleted it — and apologized — after he asked her where her empathy had gone, a question I assumed was rhetorical.
This lyrical climax — among the most famous in literature — becomes more a rhetorical exercise than an epiphany of self-revelation.
Little surprise, then, that both major parties compete in rhetorical one-upmanship to demonstrate toughness on terrorism and govern accordingly.
So that lends itself to a kind of argument and rhetorical combat in which Trump has thrived his entire life.
I was introduced to something new: rhetorical strategies and the striking impact that they could have on our written words.
Now a CEO, Marte asked the audience a rhetorical question of his own: Who among us had ever smoked weed?
This being Europe, the two countries have done their best to paper over their differences with rhetorical displays of unity.
She's an astounding figure these days, a happy Valkyrie with amused eyes and a stiletto tucked into her rhetorical boot.
As the rally continued, some speakers made rhetorical gestures to Adrian and SX, calling them "ignorant" of their own oppression.
Of course, that won't happen, and yes, it seems silly to ask for it, just a kind of rhetorical gimmick.
But to understand his current rhetorical outbursts, you can't try to understand them as primarily aimed at winning the election.
My worry is that we have earnestly lost ourselves in the same rhetorical fog within which Weinstein deliberately shrouded himself.
He doesn't even have the benefit of science, photography, or any rhetorical skills whatsoever, so it's truly been an uphill battle.
The decision to remove all US troops from Iraq provided Donald Trump with a rhetorical bludgeon during this year's presidential campaign.
"The impact was as much rhetorical," said Bertram "as it was a bill that increased the number of people in prison."
Grant's example and refuse to dignify Trump's events by appearing alongside him or providing him a platform for his rhetorical excesses?
To head off any other questions about what comes next, he answers them pre-emptively in a rhetorical question format. Politics?
Those close ties may now create concern from the current president -- given Trump&aposs past rhetorical run-ins with the Bushes.
We collectively sense that the president is wandering into deeper, darker rhetorical waters, and then suddenly he's in over his head.
Mr Gold was eager for the challenge of a more formally rhetorical play, particularly if his experiment could be off-Broadway.
So the early Trump administration was vague on the deal itself, but took a hard rhetorical line on Iran in general.
In March, Facebook explicitly banned white nationalist and separatist content, bringing them within a few rhetorical feet of Ravelry's Trump ban.
But it is not clear if it plans anything more than a rhetorical response, such as suspending military exchanges with America.
Clinton found her rhetorical footing answering questions about rising Islamophobia that Trump's calls for bans on Muslims have greatly contributed to.
The goonish rhetorical universe of pro football has yet to consume Colin Kaepernick and the conversation he is trying to start.
Amidst political campaigns generally characterized by rhetorical excess, the choice of a running mate is a decisive, specific and telling act.
Bill Clinton even praised her stem-winder speaking style and worried what her rhetorical gifts might mean for his wife's candidacy.
But those without the rhetorical gifts of an Obama need to find some other way to show an audience something new.
What we're seeing with climate change is just another example of really kind of a well-known rhetorical and political trope.
Wrestling with their own rhetorical limits, Mike Pence and Tim Kaine ultimately found themselves pinned under a pile of cringeworthy gibes.
There is also plenty of rhetorical sniping between the US and Russia -- even since the deal was reached a week ago.
The sanctions that sparked this exchange of rhetorical fire were a rare example of co-operation between China, America and Russia.
October 31, 2017: A post titled "Bread Crumbs–Q Clearance Patriot" asks rhetorical questions about POTUS, Michael Flynn, Antifa, and others.
Instead he and his allies have sought to muddy the rhetorical waters regarding what the definition of "wire-tapping" actually is.
But the speech was also replete with rhetorical outreaches designed to expand the coalition of Trump voters in this reelection year.
One more thing: A larger problem, Dyer said, is "the general level of rhetorical excess" — partly driven by the White House.
Regional tensions have risen over the past weeks as U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a tough rhetorical line with Pyongyang.
The Turkish government responded in kind to the U.S. refusal to process visas — before Erdogan followed up with his rhetorical broadside.
" When questioned at Monday's White House news conference, SHS said, "It was a rhetorical response to a criticism by the father.
And what is lost in rhetorical energy, she makes up for in the passion that is expressed in relentlessness and grit.
You don't have the standard rhetorical hooks, the apocalyptic vision of the abyss that we're falling into under Clinton and Obama.
But these rhetorical efforts feel rote and habitual; there's scarcely even a pretense that any coherent philosophy is being consistently applied.
So why does President Trump say the executive order is a weapon, when his lawyers portray it as a rhetorical device?
In a re-trial, do you imagine we'd see a different rhetorical strategy, or essentially the same opening and closing arguments?
But Kirkpatrick's polemic did anticipate a figure who would adopt a rhetorical strategy of "blame America First": The current Republican president.
It's the "yes, but" rhetorical maneuver -- condemn racism but add a qualifier to diminish the sincerity of what you just said.
While it works well as a rhetorical tool, the ideal of a perfectly trustless technology is nothing more than an ideal.
Combine that with rhetorical sympathy and awareness of your audience, and the situation gets a bit warmer, a bit less awkward.
Today when I think about what I admire most about President Barack Obama, it's not his rhetorical style or his charisma.
That rhetorical back-and-forth comes amid Kim Jong Un's repeated testing of missiles and refusal to stop his nuclear program.
But what she has lacked in rhetorical brio, she has made up for by listening to people's problems and prescribing solutions.
State Department spokesman R.C. Hammond downplayed the comments, telling Bloomberg that Tillerson was simply using a "rhetorical device" with his question.
Of equal importance, the American public has a responsibility not to be distracted by the nebulous rhetorical gaffe of the day.
Speakers on that occasion, including former President Obama, seemed to throw rhetorical jabs at Trump, albeit without mentioning him by name.
"The administration with this lawsuit has given Democrats a rhetorical tool they can use against whoever the president nominates," he said.
The rhetorical battle over Clinton comes as the two senators have been locked in a separate fight over the Supreme Court.
Either scenario is troublesome, since rhetorical precision can be crucial for Presidents in a time of crisis, when words really matter.
Those who oppose a U.S. troop withdrawal will play all kinds of rhetorical games, claiming such a departure would be complacency.
Still, the concept of 'bootstrapping' is far from limited to the rhetorical territory of the welfare state and social safety net.
It is hard to match the foolishness of his mix of cuts to domestic services, counterproductive tariffs and confused rhetorical belligerence.
This rhetorical maneuver left lawmakers with few answers about what he witnessed during one of the Trump presidency's most pivotal moments.
As always, this poses an enormous challenge for Democrats who need to devise an effective rhetorical strategy to counter the president.
Beijing has adopted an increasingly strident rhetorical stance towards the protesters, accusing foreign countries including the United States of fomenting unrest.
"Most of the time, the diplomatic community in New York is willing to put up with (Haley's) rhetorical flourishes," said Gowan.
Putting aside Washington's rhetorical excesses, China and Europe know that the U.S. does not want to destroy the current world order.
Rather than sit coolly outside the fray of political argument, facts are now one of the main rhetorical weapons within it.
The rule's largely rhetorical protections risk luring Americans into misplaced trust and making the SEC complicit in the new sales pitch.
Andrew M. Cuomo, cloaked their comments in the ancient rhetorical art of declining to discuss something but then discussing it anyway.
"Most of the time, the diplomatic community in New York is willing to put up with her rhetorical flourishes," said Gowan.
Truly, substantively, I've been impressed by his, not rhetorical commitment, but his firm commitment to get serious about an infrastructure bill.
To be clear, they're good at picking people who appear to be on their side, who play the right rhetorical game.
It's a common rhetorical move to suggest that anyone who is going down that track made a choice to go there.
" On "Young, Dumb, and Broke," the question is completely rhetorical: "What's fun about commitment / When we've got our lives to live?
" But whatever they are, they're not lurking in the murky rhetorical shallows of "Obamacare Jiu-Jitsu" or "Obamacare Jiu-Jitsu 2.
That's not a rhetorical question; I'd really love to know why you'd ever use a shootout in a gold medal game.
People were after information for purchasing decisions, and you journalists merely the rhetorical vehicle being paid to pass on those details.
She added that the news media should stop picking at his every rhetorical nit and focus, instead, on his biggest whoppers.
These coalitions can form, however, only if they can find a space outside of mainstream politics' compulsive, addictive, downward rhetorical spiral.
After the speech, Mr. Washington said he appreciated Mr. Trump's rhetorical focus on results, from low unemployment numbers to tax reform.
They were our ignoble way to mock the dissonance between his and other Republicans' gooey rhetorical flourishes and their actual actions.
Jennifer Brier, a history professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said Mr. Bush's claim to compassion was largely rhetorical.
His rhetorical high point probably came when he went to the synagogue where 11 people were murdered and didn't say anything.
Sure, he answered a handful, but a tiptoe through the transcript reveals what amounts to a master class in rhetorical deflection.
And that was for Governor Pence but also a rhetorical question for every G.O.P. official in the country and those listening.
But when Paul asks, "Do you know what people are capable of when they're desperate?" it isn't exactly a rhetorical question.
Saudi Arabia had already stepped up its rhetorical attacks on Iran as a new rationale for its existing feud with Qatar.
He said the Indian authorities were hoping that China's bluster was intended as a "rhetorical cover" for the withdrawal of troops.
But there were the medals, the family reunions and the overall rhetorical weirdness that has become par for the Trumpian course.
His efforts to portray all his opponents as Islamist extremists persuaded President Trump to lend him rhetorical support in the spring.
With 2018 likely to usher in new elections, Pakistanis are deeply united on not tolerating further American pressure or rhetorical attack.
Etzioni is convinced that Chinese policies are more concerned with rhetorical and symbolic assertions than with the outright projection of force.
" The new phrase lacks rhetorical zing; it's hard to envision workers on a picket line singing rousing anthems about "income inequality.
In speeches, both leaders have been ridiculed for making exaggerated claims, embracing conspiracy theories and speaking in a limited rhetorical style.
The effect is nearly the opposite: deprived of rhetorical shelter, Di Benedetto's narrators seem mercilessly exposed to the events they recount.
Judge 2: No—Doesn't get to the point quick enough; point isn't novel, too vague, excessive, high number of rhetorical questions.
But the discredited opposition makes an easy foil for his rhetorical attacks on corruption — the origin, he says, of Mexico's ills.
More importantly, though, is the rhetorical usefulness of playing off a smiling accusation -- of treason, a capital offense -- as a gag.
Republicans can use the Sixth Amendment as a rhetorical device, suggesting that the President should be able to meet his accuser.
What exactly the wall would look like and whether it was simply a rhetorical battle in the negotiations wasn't immediately clear.
The rhetorical challenge is to adduce a unity—akin to herding cats—among a multitude of self-centered interests and causes.
The Democratic People's Republic kept up the rhetorical duel by threatening to engulf Guam with an "enveloping fire" of ballistic missiles.
Arthur: I've never heard an Inaugural Address where I liked every rhetorical turn or policy suggestion, and this was no exception.
And yet there was something synthetic about the show, too, despite its rhetorical boldness and its sensational editing and music direction.
Conservative politicians love to celebrate states' rights, using a rhetorical commitment to local control as an excuse for blocking progressive policies.
Senators traded rhetorical shots on Wednesday after tensions over the issue — which have been simmering for months — appeared to spill over.
They act as an unofficial narrator in chief, laying down fresh rhetorical markers alongside the familiar signposts of the American story.
In attempting to explain Mr. Trump's victory, many Democrats have therefore chalked it up to his racial demagogy and rhetorical populism.
In the weeks preceding the anniversary, Iranian clerics, politicians and commanders have been renewing their rhetorical attacks against the United States.
If, in fact, she emerges from their rhetorical sausage grinder as barely a person at all, that's all to the good.
Moore can quote the Founding Fathers at length; Trump ... doesn't seem likely to have that rhetorical skill set in his repertoire.
For all the statistical ammunition at their disposal, there was a distinct lack of rhetorical cover from women for Mr. Carlson.
Note that exactly the same rhetorical strategy can prove the existence of God, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster for that matter.
If there is to be a rhetorical component, wagging to be done and a book to be written, so be it.
The "I know you are by what am I" rhetorical tool is often employed by Trump, and this time was no different.
Radical Islamic groups hope to goad the US and its allies into such a rhetorical construct to gain legitimacy and spur recruitment.
On Saturday, Clinton continued her rhetorical push for attention to—and action in—Flint by publishing an op-ed on MSNBC's site.
For all his rhetorical criticism, Carlson hesitates at the notion of breaking up big tech companies, instead urging further investigation and dialogue.
He has routinely used disability in particular as a rhetorical weapon, with both physical mimicry and words like "retard" permeating his actions.
Back on Earth, though, presidents have to operate not in a rhetorical, perfect world, but one that often offers only imperfect choices.
This kind of rhetorical move, used to provide closure on often volatile periods in the characters' lives, is a widely accepted convention.
So they decided that while today's speech would not mention Trump, it would be one one rhetorical contrast with presumptive Republican nominee.
But over the past year, there's been a glaring exception: Apple CEO Tim Cook's all-out rhetorical assault on Facebook and Google.
He did more than shout and scream; with rhetorical deftness, he got the crowd more engaged and excited than any other speaker.
Now, it wouldn't be true rhetorical rumble without some level of interruption (See: 2012 and this year's Republican and Democratic primary debates).
The rhetorical challenges of Trump are not just those of substance — or the lack thereof, but of syntax — and the lack thereof.
It is the use of irony, of pointedly saying the opposite of what you mean in order to make a rhetorical point.
Nye Bevan slammed supporters of unilateral nuclear disarmament with a rhetorical flourish about sending a foreign secretary "naked into the conference chamber".
The damning thing is that Pence and the Trump campaign are now extending that umbrella of rhetorical protection to an unrepentant Klansman.
On Saturday night, the newspaper's push alerts became a little ominous, with rhetorical flourishes that evoked both the Bible and Nazi Germany.
No, we're meant to take seriously that Nancy Pelosi, who's manhandled Trump in nearly every political and rhetorical battle, is losing it.
During the segment, Carlson notably gets frustrated with Arce's explanations and accuses her of using a "rhetorical trick" to avoid his question.
Don't fall into the rhetorical trap that says you need to choose between love for your nation and concern for civil rights.
Forget the tweetstorms, slams at "fake news" journalists and morale boosting rallies before crowds who thrill to Trump's politically incorrect rhetorical blasts.
Fox' slogan, "Fair and Balanced" was a rhetorical stroke of genius that essentially accused mainstream media of being in the establishment tank.
Republicans obviously weren't confident about winning a rhetorical war with Democrats in October over whom to blame for shutting down the government.
Fortunately, it was also a rhetorical question, which everyone knows is a recipe for disaster if you're trying to prove a point.
But the comparison is a glib rhetorical move that implicitly supports a model we shouldn't want Twitter to follow for anti-harassment.
"The president's efforts to politicize the military, starting with his remarks at the CIA memorial, are becoming a troubling rhetorical pattern," Rep.
Transformational politics is not simply a set of rhetorical flourishes that promise a pony, as some Democratic Party insiders have sniffed derisively.
"We have a very unstable rhetorical framework coming out of Washington — on again and off again multiple times a day," Roach said.
Yet now their selectively legalistic "free speech" strategy helps turn collegial contentions into rhetorical battlefields by hyping and even provoking progressive offenders.
Monica Windley, the warden, said she was impressed with Mr. Roundtree's rhetorical prowess, but maintained her support for inmates' right to vote.
But during the peak of Trump's rhetorical battle with Kelly, he perpetuated a prominent outlandish theory from one of his Twitter followers.
And, Trump, being Trump, seems unlikely to back off of his rhetorical attacks -- even if they don't serve his purpose legally speaking.
This kind of rhetorical saber-rattling occurs regularly — just this May, Iran's defense minister threatened to leave 'only Mecca and Medina' untouched.
Maurice Pialat, needless to say, is immune to considerations of greatness—a rhetorical varnish that, despite its gleam, shows us nothing new.
Being a committed, consistent climate hawk will occasionally put one at odds with the rhetorical tropes, policy preferences, and priorities of environmentalism.
Military support from the UK and US for the war strategy should stop forthwith to keep this from being a rhetorical exercise.
The Hill's video team has compiled a selection of rhetorical punches thrown on day three of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
It can't be returned to the kitchen in exchange for a new one with the perfect mix of policy and rhetorical ingredients.
The distinction between "assault" and "non-assault" weapon is just a rhetorical line that doesn't always consider how dangerous the weapon is.
To soften the symbolic blow, the Islamic State switched rhetorical gears, declaring that the real Dabiq battle would come some other time.
This is the rhetorical backdrop as we await an investigation and answers about who sent bombs to Democrats and the CNN offices.
It's now become one of President Trump's oft-repeated rhetorical cudgels against the Affordable Care Act and federal payments to insurance companies.
Like many of Trump's rhetorical quirks — hyperbole, casual bragging — his desire to be lavished with praise is something that is often inconsequential.
This is the ongoing rhetorical challenge that has hampered Sanders when it comes to the delegate math needed to win the nomination.
The team brought in Jon Favreau, well-known as the writer behind President Obama's oratory, to help give it some rhetorical heft.
Admittedly, to present work outside of any kind of rhetorical framework would cause many viewers to struggle with such a varied exhibition.
To a degree, then, North Korea's history can be traced to the rhetorical winds stirred up by an American president, Woodrow Wilson.
Is that just a matter of rhetorical emphasis, or are there real areas in which the US needs to change its policy?
The rhetorical bombast may have overshadowed his broader project, of which the Alabama contest constitutes only one small, if unexpectedly lurid, part.
Trump's shameful performance on Monday in his meeting with Putin generated significant rhetorical pushback from congressional Republicans — but, as usual, zero action.
Past sessions have occasionally featured a sharp comment directed at an unfortunate participant on the receiving end of a televised rhetorical swipe.
Despite such steps, many former soldiers feel a gulf between the rhetorical laurels from the government and the practical problems they face.
And he stepped up — well, or just continued, it's hard to make quantitative judgments — his rhetorical war against the Robert Mueller investigation.
" In another rhetorical flourish, Gorsuch said the court had reduced Auer "to the role of a tin god, officious, but ultimately powerless.
What he lacks in ideological ambition and rhetorical nimbleness he more than makes up for in human decency and political good sense.
Buccola, a professor of political science at Linfield College, deftly guides the reader through the rhetorical and philosophical moves of Baldwin's speech.
Taubes's big claims get our attention, of course, but for people suffering from these diseases they're not just a harmless rhetorical strategy.
If that reported rhetorical exchange — in effect, Madison talking to himself — amounted to fake news, few people seemed to know or care.
That question was the rhetorical last straw that led to the first bout of "consequences" he had ever faced from Republican leadership.
" Sarah Wildman at Vox noted that the speech "often resorted to rhetorical conceits typically used by the European and American alt-right.
It's part of a rhetorical effort to pitch herself as the only candidate who can bring together all of the Democratic Party.
The clearest rhetorical strategy might focus on what kind of terrible thing you want to scrub off the internet — however that's accomplished.
It was a phrase I heard him utter several times that day — a rhetorical device that made instructions sound like shared discoveries.
In this case, the strategy comes with an additional benefit: inoculating him from televised attacks from opponents and risking a rhetorical misstep.
Where these candidates still aren't quite there, Mr. Castro proved himself to be a rhetorical hit man right out of the gate.
Flake is the first elected official to cross this particular rhetorical Rubicon, and he seems to be imploring his colleagues to follow.
Many of the recent monopoly arguments rely upon narrowly defining markets to make a rhetorical case, as well as hypothetical consumer harm.
Calling independently managed schools that exist off taxpayer money "public" is a relatively recent rhetorical innovation, and one that seems purposefully deceitful.
While many of Khalidi's insights are thought-provoking, their persuasiveness is undermined at times by a tendency to shave the rhetorical corner.
It would see a disorienting game of rhetorical appropriation, in which it is constantly unclear who stands for which principles and why.
Not once have I had a teacher give us speeches delivered in the 60s by prominent black leaders for rhetorical device analysis.
He supported Bernie Sanders and can't understand his father's loyalty to Trump after a year of scandal, turmoil and rhetorical flame-throwing.
This rhetorical conversion of the entire internet into a field of battle dovetails neatly with our deepening fears about technology and privacy.
Unfortunately, rhetorical pronouncements are easier and sanctions are cheaper than this sort of concrete assistance, funding for which has been repeatedly slashed.
What then is the actual, not rhetorical, basis for improving bilateral relations when there can be no trust between the two states?
Through a rhetorical sleight of hand, the incomplete prevention of gun deaths through tighter restrictions has become an argument to do nothing.
Here, leaks have tremendous rhetorical value, and they offer a uniquely persuasive answer: someone who didn't mean to say anything at all.
The rhetorical divisions represented the larger split among Democrats on whether it is wise to pursue impeachment ahead of the 2020 election.
I'm sure if Bernie supporters were asked, few would say his hair, accent and rhetorical panache were the reason they liked him.
Candidates do not formally create or control them, giving contenders some rhetorical wiggle room to disavow them while still benefiting from them.
Mr. Booker's rhetorical space has been less crowded so far, but several Democrats exploring the 2020 race have been wielding similar themes.
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who hosted shows on Comedy Central at the time, led the rhetorical charge against Ms. Kelly's remarks.
Vinay RawatDecember 22, 2015 Despite the rhetorical nature of the question, Zuckerberg recognizes that he is fighting an uphill battle in India.
Those same officials, however, dismissed Mr. Kim's comment that he now has a "nuclear button" on his desk as a rhetorical flourish.
Everything has a meaning: Rhetorical phrases and talking points often refer to policy proposals that have been under discussion for a decade.
What President Donald Trump gave the crowd at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday morning wasn't just rhetorical red meat.
But Judges Richard Clifton (also tapped by Mr Bush) and Michelle Friedland (a Barack Obama appointee) added a rhetorical flourish to their opinion.
Despite the lack of substance in the measure itself, however, the mounting rhetorical pressure from the White House may still be paying off.
One thing that worries me on the American side is that we have constructed a rhetorical framework from which there's no easy exit.
Warren, a seasoned debater, has flexed her familiarity with the debate stage -- will she use her rhetorical talents to go after Biden directly?
Clinton has acknowledged that she lacks the natural rhetorical gifts of her husband, Bill Clinton, and the man who defeated her, Barack Obama.
As if she were asking us whether we can handle what's to come, she ends the episode with a rhetorical "Shall we begin?"
I had a profound desire to be one of them, to carry their rarified concerns in my head — deadlines, competition dates, rhetorical strategies.
But lately people have been taking the phrase "Is the Pope Catholic?" less as a rhetorical device and more as a literal question.
Diana's story is exactly the worst-case scenario of all these ridiculous rhetorical questions — a fact Wonder Woman not only knows but embraces.

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