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Sentence count:215+6Posted:2016-07-20Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: empty talkempty wordsgrandiloquencegrandiosityhot airmagniloquenceornatenesspalaverSimilar words: historichistoricalhistoricallyhistorianwhetherall the timeaestheticby the timeMeaning: ['retərɪk]  n. 1. using language effectively to please or persuade 2. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation 3. loud and confused and empty talk 4. study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking). 
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31 As the police visibly tighten the noose around the mansion, the guerrillas respond with rhetoric and warning bursts of gunfire.
32 In short, they have an explanatory rhetoric at their command.
33 The air was ripe with rhetoric, much of it aimed toward the record industry and threatening to whites.
34 This was particularly true of the highly organised rhetoric of some literary language.
35 With the election just two weeks away, the rhetoric on both sides is building.
36 Emanuel Shinwell's rhetoric, and the arguments which Crosland himself had developed in his writing, could not be brushed aside.
37 It is possible to separate pseudo-nationalist rhetoric from more sober reality.
38 We should now cast aside all the political rhetoric of the campaign.
39 However, the ideological meaning of this rhetoric is not necessarily clear.
40 Others brought the Third World Marxist rhetoric that was popular at that time among black nationalists.
41 First,(http://Sentencedict.com) the episode shows how easy it is to be led astray by one's own rhetoric.
42 One example of the duplicity of this rhetoric of inevitability concerns the nation state.
43 Behind a veil of revolutionary rhetoric, the Council of People's Commissars suppressed the masses' striving for liberty.
44 Or are they simply reacting emotionally to finely crafted television commercials and populist rhetoric?
45 Intoxicated by his success and the enthusiasm of his adoring crowds, he cranked up his rhetoric and piled on the symbolism.
46 His own followers cheered him repeatedly as the rhetoric boomed out through the slight electronic distortion of the public address systems.
47 This is ironic, given all the rhetoric about the incompetence and irrelevance of the public sector.
48 All the political rhetoric about big government protecting the weak and the poor is coming into question as well.
49 The specific policies and rhetoric have been different as the occasion demanded.
50 The Pop Tarts are the apotheosis of this disparity between rhetoric and achievement.
51 The Thatcher record since 1979 has been accompanied by a good deal of inflationary rhetoric from both supporters and critics.
52 Talk of revolution and counter-revolution has been banned from the rhetoric of the moment.
53 There genuinely is a contrast between her rhetoric and assertion of personality and the reality of the decision-making process.
54 The hardships in the countryside in the 1930s were given an added bitterness by official rhetoric on the virtues of rural life.
55 If party rhetoric and television coverage ever set the public's agenda[sentencedict.com], they should have done so on defence.
56 The rhetoric of adversary politics, it is argued, hides a more consensual substance.
57 The rhetoric of socialism claims to enhance rights, but the practice of socialism invariably extinguishes and restricts peoples' rights.
58 The president was speaking in the lofty but dull rhetoric of public policy.
59 But the rhetoric of such movements can not be taken literally.
60 This rhetoric offers both a posthoc justification for the changes, and a rallying cry for implementation.
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