rhetorical

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• It can be helpful to explicitly remind those taking a more academic rhetorical stance that, for some, it is not possible to avoid challenging emotions like fear and grief in discussing these events.

• The “people have a right to be angry” isn’t the only line of rhetorical defense Fox has employed in the hours after the violence.

• They are that bubble, the outer rhetorical fortress inside which the movement’s genuine convictions sit protected and undisturbed.

• He believed — wrongly, as it turned out — that his fame and rhetorical skills could stir Unionist sentiment among sensible Southerners, despite calls for secession from their newspapers and their intemperate politicians.

• Plus, the rhetorical punch is arguably more powerful coming from the people who helped create the problem, like Justin Rosenstein, co-inventor of Facebook’s “like” button, and Tim Kendall, former president of Pinterest.

• But politicians abhor a rhetorical vacuum, and they have clamored to fill it.

• Its rhetorical potential—if it ever had any—has been thoroughly exhausted.

• It was a gracious touch, a rhetorical olive branch to his vanquished foes.

• Yet the president uses it for rhetorical vividness—a clarity, as it were.

• But this new flavor of rhetorical flimflam is still pretty, well, whack.

• The style of Sallust is brilliant, but his art is always apparent; he is clear and lively, but .