1. rhetorical - Noun
2. rhetorical - Adjective
Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style. Derek Walcott
Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth. Ernest Mandel
The rhetorical question, the stock-in-trade weapon ay burds and psychos. Irvine Welsh
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden? Mario Vargas Llosa
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana
There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification. George Henry Lewes