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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91 Coming in the midst of a presidential campaign, the air attack has generated the inevitable political rhetoric, bombast and pressure.
92 All this suggests that it is necessary to understand the argumentative context and structure of the extreme right's rhetoric about conspiracy.
93 The newspaper reports the affair wholly within the rhetoric of the Joneses.
94 Congress rhetoric had raised their expectations, but state practice had failed to deliver.
95 Meanwhile, the referendum campaign was marked by increasingly heated rhetoric on both sides.
96 The answer must be hope that things might just improve; that one day soon reality will match rhetoric.
97 So he presents his plan in fragments, and he wraps it in warm rhetoric aimed at pleasing moderate Democrats and independents.
98 The session four years ago alienated many moderate voters with its fire-and-brimstone rhetoric that included attacks on gays and feminists.
99 Both the rhetoric of self-congratulation and self-flagellation have missed out how much Britain has changed since 1945.
100 His tightly honed but grandiloquent rhetoric rang like gold on marble, even when it was covering gross political ineptitude.
101 Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.
102 But behind the rhetoric, his relations with Yeltsin and the army itself,(www.Sentencedict.com) are dangerously ambiguous.
103 And so rhetoric allows associative feminist psychologists to address psychology from outside, but from a recognizable and relevant perspective.
104 As democracy is, at present, the only permissible political rhetoric, the ruling class duly speaks its language.
105 The same rhetoric appears with great frequency in the description of the football scene.
106 Radical rhetoric can disguise essential continuities in policy or simply provide a posthoc gloss to changes which were happening anyway.
107 Abstract internationalism had a strong role to play in rationalizing much more sinister forces than appeared in the rhetoric of Petrograd.
108 How much effort either the president or the Congress is inclined to put behind the rhetoric is an open question.
109 Unfortunately[sentencedict.com], rhetoric is left out of the discussion until the final paragraph in which a promise is made of things to come.
110 The question of institutional support is important but this is sometimes stronger in its rhetoric than its substance.
111 In the Arts Council's rhetoric of liberal synthesis, dichotomies are for ever being overcome by acts of sheer good will.
112 All the noise being made about the hostages at that time was just political rhetoric.
113 Such statements, though frequently unjustified, indicate the extent to which rhetoric of this kind had become widely acceptable.
114 Republican rhetoric had consisted of unrestrained hostility to the Soviet Union and emphasized permanent war with Communism.
115 Justice Anthony M.. Kennedy jumped in and attacked Davis at one point for the inconsistency of his rhetoric and logic.
116 But the rhetoric of those who defended government policy in the early 1680s was explicitly legalist in nature.
117 His remedy, modest given his rhetoric, is that professors should be held more accountable for what they do.
118 Barth is not simply glorying in paradoxes, however much his rhetoric may sometimes leave that impression.
119 Among evangelical Christians, Graham is known for avoiding divisive rhetoric.
120 Utopian rhetoric about worldwide democratic capitalism is being replaced by the more pragmatic project of globalisation in one country.
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.