rhetoric
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1. rhetoric - Noun
2. rhetoric - Adjective
Meaning
The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.
Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force.
Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.
Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.
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Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.