| His adoration, like a jealous lover's, is only rhetorically distinguishable from contempt. |
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| Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context. |
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| He and his writers are very intelligent, and seem to know just how to rhetorically back people into logical corners. |
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| In his rhetorically powerful letters and dedications George apparently saw Mehmed as a suitable patron of his academic skills. |
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| Somehow, the sense of circumstantiality and of power in reserve are factors that are rhetorically important. |
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| He understood what the significance of an assimilation of Dewey to Freud might hold rhetorically within the realm of American cultural politics. |
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| Unmediated devices are motivated rhetorically, while mediated devices are motivated both rhetorically and referentially. |
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| Most composers from Bach on play the double game of creating arresting individual variations and a rhetorically dramatic whole. |
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| One senior advisor asked, rhetorically, if illiterate farmers would vote for the information superhighway. |
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| For him, all artistic devices perform some function, and all artistic devices are therefore rhetorically motivated. |
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| Rather predictably, the adoption of a much more rhetorically republican tone by the Irish government produced a shattering blow to such hopes. |
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| Many of these arguments from the early 1980s now appear rhetorically overextended, with too many unsubstantiated leaps across discursive spans. |
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| Each of the elements he names demands a communicative, rhetorically performed reciprocity that today's electronic media make almost unthinkable. |
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| Knowledge rhetorically induced from a representative anecdote will ironically contain both of Ransom's two knowledges. |
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| The preface, to be sure, shows a perhaps rhetorically prudent ambivalence towards the use of humour in polemic. |
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| Sure, there's a good deal of redundancy here, but such redundancy is often rhetorically valuable. |
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| This report describes, not just rhetorically but in the detail that global policymakers need, how that opportunity can and should be seized. |
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| The user is free to express his opinions in critical, but legally and rhetorically permissible contributions. |
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| The front cover of this annual report asks rhetorically 'who cares about shareholder value? |
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| There is a question that has come up and I would like to perhaps rhetorically pose the question and see if I can provide the answer. |
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| He is now, at least rhetorically, attacking the entire concept of progressive taxation. |
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| I ask rhetorically, will the Prime Minister seek such approval if the need for ground troops arises in this conflict? |
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| I believe that we have said many times, for the most part rhetorically, that Europe is in tune with young people. |
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| Cuvier orchestrated his belligerence from sweet reason to outbursts of perfectly timed and rhetorically elegant fury. |
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| But some presidents grow stronger rhetorically in the job as the gravitas of the office lends depth to their words. |
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| Consider his zig-zags to be one of several motifs that he deploys to trace a stylistic course not merely morphologically but also rhetorically. |
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| I say rhetorically because we were all supposed to know that the answer was yes. |
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| Hotovely, as rhetorically powerful and deeply ideological as ever, laid out her four options for the territories at the start. |
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| Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum asks rhetorically as we sit in her Pentagon office. |
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| The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has said loudly – and proudly – he is pro-immigration, if rhetorically tough on illegal arrivals. |
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| Today what the Italian autonomists said rhetorically in the 1970s has become reality: the whole of society is a factory. |
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| It is for this reason that military means so rarely bring about the goals of freedom that are so often used rhetorically to justify aggression. |
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| In every measure that we can take, even rhetorically, British Columbia was left out of the budget. |
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| I am not saying that that would be easy, but I do believe this to be a better way forward than making rhetorically appealing declarations. |
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| Mr. Sunter, I think in your presentation you asked somewhat rhetorically what would become of all these musicians. |
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| And Darrow then turns on Mencken and roughs him up rhetorically. |
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| And most Ukrainian leaders of all stripes and ethnicities remain monumentally corrupt and rhetorically dishonest. |
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| Foundational to Garver's argument is Aristotle's insight that the rhetorically relevant ethos is the one that is constructed in the rhetor's discourse. |
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| According to a credible source, at the end of the press conference, the CPO rhetorically asked the JIT members what they intended to investigate, since the perpetrator had been identified. |
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| The viewer asked rhetorically if the station's censor was off that night. |
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| We also need to articulate our case with words and facts that are strong, unassailable and, as important, rhetorically inspiring without being hackneyed. |
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| Gathering together all of Chrysostom's portraits of Paul, she argues persuasively that they must be understood rhetorically as encomia. |
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| In an interview Ratan Tata, head of the Indian conglomerate Tata, asked rhetorically how long it would have taken before his company had been allowed to take over an Indian business the size of Corus. |
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| Gorgias even boasted that a master rhetorician unqualified in medicine could get himself elected as surgeon general over a qualified doctor who is not rhetorically gifted. |
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| I do not believe that there is a faith amongst people in the Member States that in fact what we rhetorically commit ourselves to we are prepared financially to commit ourselves to. |
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| But he also noted certain scepticism, and rhetorically asked whether the Committee's recommendations were really anything more than the current Government of Canada regulatory policy. |
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| Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case. |
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| Asking rhetorically where this money would come from, Boni predicted that the world's poorer countries would end up paying for the crisis in the long run. |
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| Rhetorically speaking, the willful silence of the superordinate can serve as a potent expression of institutional authority and discipline. |
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