1 Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
2 How far the president will be able to translate his campaign rhetoric into action remains to be seen.
3 As the police visibly tighten the noose around the mansion, the guerrillas respond with rhetoric and warning bursts of gunfire.
4 Her speech was just empty rhetoric.
5 Thomas Carlyle , notwithstanding his tedious rhetoric, is a master of the sublime in prose style.
6 It was exactly this type of misleading rhetoric that led us into a misguided war.
7 If his rhetoric is any indication, the president appears to be headed in the right direction.
8 Lexy was a master of polemical rhetoric; she should have worn a T-shirt with the slogan "Born to Debate.".
9 His stilted rhetoric did not impress the college audience; they were immune to bombastic utterances.
10 These arguments may have been used as a rhetorical device to argue for a perpetuation of a United Nations role.
11 Republican Congressional leaders have launched a rhetorical assault against the Clinton proposal this week.
12 The writer showed great rhetorical skill.
13 To win his audience; the speaker used every rhetorical trick in the book.