Synonym: empty talk, empty words, grandiloquence, grandiosity, hot air, magniloquence, ornateness, palaver. Similar words: historic, historical, historically, historian, whether, all the time, aesthetic, by the time. Meaning: ['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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61 First, the rhetoric of deregulation has not matched the reality: enterprise zones and Freeports have largely proved mundane.
62 This rhetoric needs to be understood in terms of the battle for control of the party, as rival factions take up distinctive stances.
63 His actual policy was far more pragmatic than his rhetoric about punishing aggression.
64 Last week Karl-Marx Allee was again treated to the sounds of portentous rhetoric and polite laughter.
65 During these years race became the cultural flashpoint, and most political careers were founded on a rhetoric of purity and exclusion.
66 Their rhetoric has emphasized national unity and social cohesion, as well as the development of skills for the economy.
67 Another sore point was de Gaulle's fondness for theatricality and rhetoric, which sometimes came at the expense of substance.
68 In an interesting discussion of varieties of egalitarianism, Plant attacks the rhetoric that links freedom only with consumer choice.
69 It is as if the past is being rejected with the author adopting a rhetoric commonly used by anti-fascists.
70 Practical realities like these call into question the real commitment behind some of the rhetoric about community care.
71 All the resolution needed for maximum impact, I thought, was to have its sharp working-class rhetoric muted.
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72 However, his deeply felt and meticulously researched rhetoric conveyed in all his books is hard hitting, provocative and sagacious.
73 This connection between integrity and the rhetoric of equal protection is revealing.
74 Gingrich, however, is loathe to give up the familiar anti-Washington rhetoric that proved so popular in recent campaigns.
75 Rome shocked me by flouting the conventional political rhetoric of environmentalists.
76 Actually this statement, without the rhetoric, gives a useful limiting factor.
77 They have definite life styles and political values, which are concealed under a rhetoric of objectivity.
78 In so doing they extended the problem of determining the relationship between rhetoric and reality into the early barbarian period.
79 In the three months since the election, Clinton and Republican leaders have repeatedly and even reverently recited the appropriate rhetoric.
80 This points to a significant disharmony between the rhetoric of schooling and the practice.
81 The crowd at the Communist rally demonstrated why the leadership had to keep its rhetoric vague.
82 One approach centres on analysis of the rhetoric of the image in relation to looking, and the desire to look.
83 It is easy, however, for rhetoric about freedom and choice to blur the reality which professional workers encounter daily.
84 All that the Labour party offers is promises and rhetoric; we have delivered an improved health service.
85 This political rhetoric would lead one to suppose that the subsequent proposals would be of an equally clear political substance.
86 The rhetoric of internationalism faded like morning mist before the sun of reality.
87 The rhetoric of rights, which is engendered by this question, is a recipe for class war, and civil war.
88 Don't try to fool us with all those facts and bureaucratic rhetoric.
89 There has been harsh rhetoric against documented and undocumented immigrants, as well as attempts to deprive them of essential human services.
90 But they expressed disappointment that sales decisions failed to match the Government's rhetoric.
More similar words: historic, historical, historically, historian, whether, all the time, aesthetic, by the time, on the table, at the time of, rice, at the thought of, for the time being, origin, trick, brick, price, minority, major in, horizon, let out, let off, get off, see to, get out, get on, fabric, African, strict, favorite.