rhetoric

[ˈretərɪk]

Definition:
1. Using language effectively to please or persuade.
2. High flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation.
3. Loud and confused and empty talk.

Use 'rhetoric' in a sentence:

1. Using the dialectical method to research rhetoric.
2. A Study on the Application of Rhetoric of Modern Chinese Color Words.
3. Burke's ideas of new rhetoric are studied from three aspects: rhetoric of identification, dramatism and logology.
4. This is the beginning of Congress-bashing presidential campaign rhetoric.
5. The man like beautiful face, women like rhetoric.
6. Think of this technique in terms of rhetoric.
7. The 1950s saw a growing number of women engaged in farm labor, even though rhetoric in the popular media called for the return of women to domestic life.
8. Not everyone buys the win-win rhetoric.
9. Some thinking on the rhetoric of the form of legal provisions.
10. In Chinese classical poetry, the reiterative diction is one of rhetoric methods.
11. Mr Huckabee's weakness is that his protectionist and anti-corporate rhetoric appals economic conservatives.
12. The need to reform Congress has left Obama's rhetoric.
13. He is stronger on rhetoric than on concrete action.
14. Do you know something about rhetoric?
15. Art of Rhetoric Devices in English and Chinese Translation.
16. What is required is immediate action, not rhetoric.
17. On the Functions of the Sound Length in Teaching and Rhetoric.
18. Sometimes Georgian rhetoric is hot as well.
19. Cynics argue that the EU is stronger on rhetoric than on concrete action.
20. The rhetoric has noticeably softened.
21. Contrastive Rhetoric Studies of English and Chinese and the Teaching of English Composition.
22. The rhetoric of the Chinese character plays an important part in the Chinese language.
23. Modern rhetoric think any language unit and expression means have rhetoric meaning.
24. On the Art of Rhetoric and Translation Approaches in Advertising English.
25. Her early works are inchoate idea, nothing but full of lush rhetoric.
26. And Mr Rajoy has also toned down his anti-Zapatero rhetoric.
27. English rhetoric is an important topic in translation theory and practice.
28. People want to hear that kind of rhetoric.
29. Our society does not—despite rhetoric to the contrary—put much value on raising children.
30. The Background of the Possible Foundation for Chinese Pragmatic Rhetoric.
31. Attempting to resolve this contradiction, Harris concludes that Fern employed flowery rhetoric strategically to disguise her subversive goals beneath apparent conventionality.
32. For years, from newspapers, broadcasts, the stages and at meetings, we had heard nothing but grandiloquent rhetoric delivered with shouts and shrieks that deafened the ears.
33. The features and the rhetoric of Chinese language.
34. Yet he has done little to back up the rhetoric.
35. He developed an entire vocabulary, a rhetoric of righteous disobedience, of resistance, of protest and revolution.
36. On a deeper level, rhetoric also involves cultural specifics.
37. The Current State and Expectation of China Cultural Rhetoric Research.
38. Teaching of Rhetoric and the Application of Multi-media Technology.
39. The Teaching of Advanced English and the Art of Rhetoric.
40. Where there is language and communication, there is rhetoric.
41. But the rhetoric is unconvincing.
42. The words were not just rhetoric.
43. The rhetoric and aims of late 2001 evaporated long ago.
44. The AU's rhetoric has become more pragmatic.
45. It is highly probable that many of the Service's personnel were put off by such high-flown rhetoric.
46. The change is largely cosmetic, a matter of acceptable political rhetoric rather than social reality.
47. His fiery campaign rhetoric has kept opposition parties on their toes for months.
48. His rhetoric sounds like the death rattle of a fading leadership.
49. The chapter is mostly wordy rhetoric.
50. The harsh rhetoric had so soured officials that the two sides were barely speaking.