rhetorician
Example Sentences
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In conversation with sociologist and Hamilton University President Stephen Pepper, Obama, ever the master rhetorician, said:
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025
Obama is a trained law professor and an eloquent rhetorician, but he could not make a coherent case.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2020
Franklin was a gifted rhetorician and singer, and he prospered as the pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2018
Here’s a man who – agreeing with the 17th-century rhetorician John Bulwer that gesture is “the palm and crown of eloquence” – really speaks with his hands.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2016
And the orator need know nothing of medicine himself, hmm? socrates: Then, when the rhetorician is more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge?
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
