rhetoric
Example Sentences
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He said there needed to be more focus on "fairness, compassion and justice", adding he was worried about the impact of increasingly divisive rhetoric.
From BBC
She majored in rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin.
Tempering democratic rhetoric with aristocratic restraint, he rises above the divisions of debate to deliver the funeral oration when Athens buries its dead sons in the war’s first winter.
Despite its rhetoric, in other words, the anti-abortion right is not simply concerned with the unborn's "right to life."
From Salon
The Russian Orthodox Church has allied itself with President Vladimir Putin, echoing Kremlin rhetoric in defending the invasion of Ukraine.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
