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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121 Indeed, since the Dec. 24 election Mr Erbakan has been backpedaling on much of his campaign rhetoric.
122 The Yippies were armed with a vivid imagination to match their rhetoric.
123 In its place is a new rhetoric, an incendiary rhetoric, a rhetoric of vitriolic accusation.
124 In other words, at these points, Dawkins depends on propaganda and rhetoric.
125 Unfortunately, President Reagan's cold-war rhetoric has worsened the climate for disarmament talks.
126 Beyond mere rhetoric, Church leaders have skillfully capitalized on their formidable influence in Catholic countries.
127 The debacle over performance pay is just one example of the reality not living up to the rhetoric.
128 In the ensuing campaign, Thorne, Jones and their supporters exploited populist rhetoric on the war.
129 Pyongyang limited itself to rhetoric, and was cautious even in its comments about the dramatic developments in the South.
130 Mr Papandreou's Pasok, embittered and demoralised, remains unable to evolve from unreconstructed popularism and anti-right rhetoric.
131 The atmosphere is charged - the camera prowls street demos and violence and impassioned rhetoric spurts from citizens on every corner.
131 Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
132 But the harshest rhetoric and most sweeping policy changes have been reserved for the poor, particularly poor women.
133 Once again a universalist rhetoric disguises a rather more restricted reality.
134 Assessment shows that the rhetoric of community involvement did not stand up to examination in the way that bids were compiled.
135 From Cicero and Quintilian and from Aristotles Rhetoric we learn that the Sophist whom Plato has made so ridiculous was a man of note whose writings were preserved in later ages.
136 Critics like former Pakistani army general Talat Masood say both sides need to de-escalate rhetoric and work toward overcoming their inefficiencies while dealing with terrorism.
137 For many pro-choice campaigners, the murder was evidence that inflammatory rhetoric begets violence.
138 There are many elderly people in the central square dancing, as well as in rhetoric, sometimes issued by waves of happy laughter.
139 Despite his inspiring rhetoric , Mr Obama 's plans for dealing with those long-term obligations have frustratingly vague .
140 Modem rhetoric think any language unit and expression means have rhetoric meaning.
141 In delimiting teaching aim, we ought to help students understand rhetoric better and acquire better language competence.
142 Traditional rhetoric holds that metaphor is lexically a kind of contrast and substitution of meanings[sentencedict.com], and it is a deviation of the normal rules of language use.
143 Now that Obama is in full re-election mode, the labor union bosses seem to be ratcheting down the rhetoric of their anti-trade demagoguery, at the behest we assume, of Obama’s advisers.
144 It is a word of encouragement though,it's a sermon, it uses Hellenistic Jewish style--speech styles and rhetoric and Hellenistic Jewish exegetical techniques.
145 Okay so rhetoric towards Iran would be heigtened, but whether McCain would have waged another military campaign during the current political climate would be an assumption too far.
146 If nothing else, Kim should ratchet down the rhetoric out of his own family's self-interest.
147 Ad English has its characteristics in words choosing and syntax, and can use such rhetoric as metaphors, personifications, repetitions, double meanings, anamorphosis phrases and antitheses.
148 Then the structures of euphemism are discussed in detail from three aspects:rhetoric, semantics and word-building.
149 Poems like the poems of the English Lord Macaulay are, although in meter and rhyme, not poetry at all, but only rhetoric.
150 The rhetoric fashion of people of ah age and a clime has its traits to a certainty. The traits form special modes of expression about aesthetic experience.
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.