rhetorician
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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
Johnson the undergraduate classicist, Eton rhetorician and middlebrow biographer was fond of making quotations, stitching together attitudes and throwing out highfalutin references to fascinate and flatter down-home audiences.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
Obama is a trained law professor and an eloquent rhetorician, but he could not make a coherent case.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2020
But that’s not to say that this doubting 1956 novel should be completely separated from the rhetorician, who spoke with such clarity and assurance at the Cambridge Union in 1965.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2019
That’s not meant in a nice way; but could there be a better epitaph for a rhetorician?
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
