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

Aristotle said that the basic job of the rhetorician was to “discover the best available means of persuasion.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith