rhetoric
retorik
definition
noun
Born into a rich provincial family, he studied philosophy as well as rhetoric and law.
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
example
all we have from the opposition is empty 'rhetoric'
As an ability, 'rhetoric' is observable when people choose to engage in it.
Many parties sound the same in their 'rhetoric' and even look alike in their symbols.
The Old Man, as he is known, would not want to be seen as the hapless prisoner of his own empty 'rhetoric' .
From this perspective, Ovidian 'rhetoric' works to conceal the very desire that organizes it.
Young Athenian democrats needed 'rhetoric' to persuade the democratic assemblies.
It is as if everyone has been given a dictionary of war 'rhetoric' to make us believe we are fighting for a reason.
You want to keep on pouring out the same old toxic separatist and communalist 'rhetoric' .
Is it no more than 'rhetoric' , designed to scare the mullahs and force them to drop their nuclear programme?
Don't simply opt for apparently powerful but ultimately empty, meaningless 'rhetoric' .
Like the style of their 'rhetoric' , the content of their arguments was stirring; it was arousing.
It actually shows up the huge amount of 'rhetoric' and empty wording piece by piece.
The devices of 'rhetoric' , however, did not lose their links with poetry or their practical ties with the law.
They may have seen themselves as reviving a more ancient tradition, that of 'rhetoric' .
Behind all the pomp and the communist 'rhetoric' , this is a peace loving country.
He delights in personal enrichment and seems to be lacking in political 'rhetoric' .
I am a sucker for 'rhetoric' and a bit of uplift in some circumstances can be helpful.
It is the common 'rhetoric' in the aftermath of wars that, with the war once won, the peace must not then be lost.
Such insipid, sophomoric 'rhetoric' is best left in the empty heads that created it.
he is using a common figure of 'rhetoric', hyperbole
In the late twentieth century 'rhetoric' has been revived as the study of the structuring powers of discourse.
I have been impressed by 'rhetoric' on dealing with inefficiency in the public services.
all we have from the Opposition is empty 'rhetoric'
As a result, his promises have raised the art of empty 'rhetoric' to new heights.
We must implement a health strategy that puts patients first, not empty 'rhetoric' .
Gellert's lectures on poetry, 'rhetoric' , and ethics were exceptionally popular.
But during his twenties he was not only teaching Latin literature and the arts of 'rhetoric' .
Invoke the slippery slope and construct a straw man to knock down with one fell swoop of 'rhetoric' .
But both these opposite models of our selves are equally powerful in current 'rhetoric' .
It may well be that the cities no longer had the resources to support a roster of teachers of grammar and 'rhetoric' .
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