Engaging the arguments of those who hold differing…

The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's…

— Frank Gohlke

“...if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and generational opportunity. In 1960, the articulate Adlai Stevenson compared his…

— E.J. Dionne Jr

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

— George Santayana

When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably)…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to…

— Kenny Smith

The case for Brexit was made on rhetorical flourishes and promises and bluster. A lot of promises on which people voted have turned out…

— Jo Johnson

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

— David Roochnik

“That was a rhetorical question, one asked solely to produce an effect and not elicit a reply.”

— Paul Hoffman

Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a…

— James W. Loewen

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“when a Greek or Roman individual wanted to communicate a concept, he or she would typically write a theological treatise or lay out a…

— Robert F. Gallaty

In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about…

— George Weigel

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

— Timothy Keller

When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range…

— Kerry James Marshall