rhetoric
rheto·ric (ret′ər ik)
noun
- the art of using words effectively in speaking or writing; esp., now, the art of prose composition
- skill in this
- a treatise or book on this
- artificial eloquence; language that is showy and elaborate but largely empty of clear ideas or sincere emotion
Etymology: ME rethorike < OFr or L: OFr rethorique < L rhetorica < Gr rhētorikē (technē), rhetorical (art) < rhētōr, orator: see rhetor
rhetoric
n.
Speech
composition, discourse, oratory, oration; see eloquence 1, speech 3.Grandiloquence
bombast, high-flown language, empty talk; see euphuism, flatulence, wordiness.
Converse of object
- spout: Instead, he simply left it to Vise President Adina Bastidas to spout the anti-American rhetoric.
- contradict: This authoritarian methodology clearly contradicted the libertarian rhetoric within Deleuze and Guattari's writings.
- translate: They note that in the NSF there is little in the way of guidance on how to translate the rhetoric of partnerships into practice.
- adopt: In Britain the debate is confused because almost everyone on the left and center now adopts a communitarian rhetoric.
- employ: C onclusion That Trisha employs interrogatory rhetoric in order to push her guests into personal confessions is not a surprising discovery.
- match: It said: âNew Labor ⦠reality does not match political rhetoric.
Preposition: into
- reality: Can one observe any borrowings or ' translations ' of the previous rhetoric into the new reality?
Adjective modifier
- epideictic: The theater is the place where epideictic rhetoric belongs.
- anti-American: Surely a movement that seriously believed its own anti-American rhetoric should have welcomed these attacks.
- populist: But their role is to do precisely that - gather reliable information, not engage in populist rhetoric like Sarkozy.
- contrastive: Contrastive rhetoric: Cross-cultural aspects of second language writing.
- overblown: It was important for people to approach this issue in a calm, reasoned manner and strip away some of the overblown rhetoric.
- empty: People like them don't want to hear the empty rhetoric of politicians.
Preposition: on
- breadth: Our rhetoric on breadth is not always backed up in fact, yet we regard it as a major 'brand ' asset.
Modifies a noun
- johnson: Rhetoric johnson maintained out to me the quot capital.
Preposition: of
- empowerment: What are the effects of the rhetorics of empowerment and participation pushed by government and NGOs?
- inclusion: As a consequence, some fundamental policy issues will emerge, alongside certain difficulties inherent to the rhetoric of inclusion.
- politician: People like them don't want to hear the empty rhetoric of politicians.
- sustainability: The Doha Development Agenda quotes the rhetoric of sustainability; Fair Trade organizations have the experience of how to make this a reality.
Noun used with modifier
- extremist: The once politically centrist, science-based vision of environmentalism has been largely replaced with extremist rhetoric.
The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could. It is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrinea place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
Historiesmakemenwise; poets, witty; themathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
America hasjust passedthroughan eight-yearcoma in which slogans were confused with solutions and rhetoric passed for reality.
