The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
“...if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and generational opportunity. In 1960, the articulate Adlai Stevenson… — E.J. Dionne Jr Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The case for Brexit was made on rhetorical flourishes and promises and bluster. A lot of promises on which people voted have… — Jo Johnson Copy Share Image
Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview. — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees.… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again… — Robin Winks Copy Share Image
If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
Both India and Pakistan have a long history of deploying rhetorical strategies to skirt the issue of plebiscite or complete secession of… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Godwin's law states that the longer any online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will play the Nazi card.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
When I hear the president of the United States in a great little rhetorical flourish talk about the leavening hand of the… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image