But you can't fault me on my footnotes. I've worked hard on them and they look pretty impressive. And almost all the sources I quote actually exist. I must confess, however, that the idea of putting footnotes in chapter 5, the autobiographical chapte...
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.
Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.
Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?
Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible.
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
Again, it is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than t...
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 your mailman.
