6 uses
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Definition
the use of (or study of using) words to make a point — typically implying skillful use
- But to speak of him as mad was like sinking to empty rhetoric.2 — When the Exorcist Shall Go to the House of the Patient... (1% in)
- Sam was a man who appreciated the important things: a sensible brief without rhetoric, good common sense about the problem in Asia or tapping phones, good plumbing in the house.3 — Lion Emerging from Cage (15% in)
- I'm sick of it, she thought, but even as she thought it she knew it was rhetoric.4 — Mama (16% in)
- "Don't be fooled by rhetoric.11 — The Dialogue of Houses (26% in)
- I told about their shocking tactics against Medicare—the banquets for doctors' wives, for instance, where the wives were given a speech that was an absolute tissue of lies, a speech that ended with outrageous rhetoric, more moving than any account of a lynching, and the final line: DO YOU WANT THAT KIND OF WORLD FOR YOUR DAUGHTERS AND SONS?11 — The Dialogue of Houses (84% in)
- Nuper asked softly, rhetorically.17 — Benson versus Boyle (47% in)
There are no more uses of "rhetoric" in The Sunlight Dialogues.
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