| Coupland the slaphappy rhetorician, drunk on throwaway tropes and instant epigrams, puts Coupland the pop sociologist in the shade. |
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| Hence the rhetorician who wants to persuade by arguments or proofs can adapt most of the dialectical equipment. |
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| The moralizing is given all the force which an accomplished rhetorician can provide and is enlivened by anecdote, hyperbole, and vigorous denunciation. |
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| Ladies and gentlemen, my background is as a communication researcher and rhetorician. |
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| Another Greek sage and rhetorician, Antiphontas, also said that people subjected to torture only say what pleases their torturers. |
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| The rhetorician succeeds fairly well for his matter, when he discovers that all oratory debates generally boil down to a few determined problems. |
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| He held several high offices in his native place, and distinguished himself no less as a statesman and diplomatist than as a rhetorician. |
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| It's plain silly to compartmentalize the disciplines, as if a botanist couldn't talk to an economist, a geologist to a rhetorician, or N. A. Chomsky to G. W. Bush. |
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| Mr de Waal has the more convincing argument, but Mr Grayling is the better rhetorician. |
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| A rhetorician could note figures and tropes throughout the play. |
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| Annaeus Mela of Corduba, son of the rhetorician Seneca the Elder, and brother of the philosopher Seneca the Younger. |
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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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| Hitchens was a skilled and combative rhetorician with an imperious flair. |
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| The Old Testament poems are generally ascribed to the father, who is spoken highly of as a poet, and the New Testament dialogues to the son, who was more distinguished as a philosopher and rhetorician. |
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| Other major Greek authors of the Empire include the biographer and antiquarian Plutarch, the geographer Strabo, and the rhetorician and satirist Lucian. |
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