Crossword-Solution: RHETORIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rhetoric | n. | The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose. |
| Rhetoric | n. | Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force. |
| Rhetoric | n. | Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling. |
| Rhetoric | n. | Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms. |
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Sentences with RHETORIC (5)
Reilly helped with TeX arcana and painstakingly proofread some 2.7 and 2.8 versions; Steve Summit contributed a number of excellent new entries and many small improvements to 2.9.10; and Eric Tiedemann contributed sage advice throughout on rhetoric, amphigory, and philosophunculism.
THE FOURTH BOOK Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope So oft, and the persuasive rhetoric That sleeked his tongue, and won so much on Eve, So little here, nay lost.
The robe of speculative cobwebs, embroidered with flowers of rhetoric, steeped in the dew of sickly sentiment, this transcendental robe in which the German Socialists wrapped their sorry “eternal truths,” all skin and bone, served to wonderfully increase the sale of their goods amongst such a public.
The merchants were looking for new markets to exploit, but the idealist rhetoric talked only in terms of benevolent paternalism.
Then followed a speech, a masterpiece of rhetoric, which occupied nearly a day in the delivery, and to which no summary can do justice.
Quotes with RHETORIC (3)
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.
Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted, judges a work that he could not create and, if we are to believe certain facile condemnations, would not want to create. A literary critic is a reader who is necessarily severe. By turning inside out like a glove an overworked complex that has become debased to the point of being part of the vocabulary of statesmen, we might say that the literary critic and the professor…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 39 times in crossword archives (1958–2025).