“Charientism (n.) A rhetorical term to describe saying a disagreeable thing in an agreeable way. If I knew how to say disagreeable… — Ammon Shea 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
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
“...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
This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of public relations and rhetorical style but of actions. It's the actions and policies under George W.Bush administration… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional… — D. A. Carson 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
“when a Greek or Roman individual wanted to communicate a concept, he or she would typically write a theological treatise or lay… — Robert F. Gallaty Copy Share Image
The issue of who gets to define the future, own the nation's wealth, shape the parameters of the social state, control the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
It's always an interesting thing that happens between an artist and their work. People collapse the two, and for any artist, there… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural… — Herbert Spencer 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
“"And suddenly they came out of the woodwork. I don't actually know what that expression means. What come out of the wood… — John Marsden 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
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience. — William Safire Copy Share Image
How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. — Hugh Sidey Copy Share Image
“Ut mos totus rhetoricus problemati terminus? (When will all the rhetorical questions end?)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed. — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Engaging the arguments of those who hold differing opinions is always a worthy use of one’s time. It’s how we strengthen our… — Alyssa Cole Copy Share Image
The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature. — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The real nightmare resides in a society that hides behind the mutually informing and poisonous notions of colorblindness and a post-racial society,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
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