Example sentences for: rhetorical

How can you use “rhetorical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ) But I think that what really alarms the right about Rorty is not his moments of rhetorical excess but rather the buried fear that the left might one day wake up and take his advice.

  • I was induced to read his piece, however, not so much by the trusty rhetorical device of self-deprecation as by that fusty word dullard .

  • You're right that it's race where the interplay between rhetorical and programmatic politics was most complex.

  • There follows a desexing section on maxims (for “He who laughs last laughs best” read “The last laugh is the best”: not only does it not say the same thing but the second is totally lacking in the rhetorical devices packed into the first), and a two-page bibliography, reference notes to chapters, and an index.

  • The national industries that will lose under global capitalism and the national industries that will win are--to borrow a self-illustrating rhetorical metaphor--apples and oranges.


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