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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181 The author puts forward a suggestion of building a language teaching system of taking rhetoric as a key link, and that of building a discipline system of taking rhetoric as a centre.
182 Both sides were raising the rhetoric on the day South Korea launched big land and sea military exercises, prompting North Kor ea to denounce its richer neighbour as a warmonger.
183 Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in morse.
184 As a stronghold of medieval linguistics study, modern Shishuo Xinyu linguistics study has made great achievements in lexics, wording and rhetoric studies.
185 The diplomatic language art of Guoyu manifests itself in the comprehensive use of many rhetoric means, combining the closely-knit argument with literary grace.
186 Three main issues will be involved in the following essay: First, the global view and the reestablishment of the image of Chinese Rhetoric as a subject.
187 Mr Carter's tone was dolorous, but there is an extraordinary lilt to Mr Obama's rhetoric which puts a bounce back into everyone's step.
188 His Office is to teach the Arts of Philosophy, Astrology, Rhetoric, Logic, Cheiromancy, and Pyromancy , in all their parts, and perfectly.
189 While the Moldovan Communists moderated their initially shrill anti-market and anti-imperialist rhetoric, their eight years in power nevertheless marked a significant erosion of democratic freedoms.
190 This paper attempts to analyze the idiom's decomposability and its rhetoric characteristics from a relevance perspective of view.
191 It is completely feasible to construct modern Chinese synonymy rhetoric system according as the division.
192 Onomatopoetic words, as peculiar rhetoric means(sentencedict.com/rhetoric.html), have been widely used in oral and literary works and have peculiar rhetoric effect.
193 Finally, the author points out that many people in the European Renaissance thought that rhetoric and society were pretty much the same thing.
194 As in other debates over contentious issues, the question is to what extent over-the-top rhetoric reflects popular sentiment and to what extent popular sentiment is stirred up by rhetoric.
195 This paper analyzes on and probes into emphatically 14 kinds of rhetoric methods frequently used in advertising documents with the better effect including repeat, metaphor, dualization, etc.
196 For all its laissez-faire rhetoric, the Reagan administration fought fire with fire, responding to Japan's market-distorting industrial and trade policies with a firm hand.
197 Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
198 To classical scholar, rhetoric was important in three spheres of human interaction: in law courts, in legislative assemblies, and in public forums.
199 The former reflects the positive effects of rhetoric, while the latter violates the regularity of language itself, or disobeys the social code of ethics.
200 In order for rhetoric to be effective, the rhetor, writer or speaker, needs to consider the functional needs of and c...
201 So far, so good, from the oil industry's point of view.There's been remarkably little rhetoric -- and even less action -- in Washington about changing the rules in the energy sector.
202 There is another case where "and" appears between every two coordinate members in a sentence-it is known as polysyndeton in the rhetoric.
203 Rivlin said that anti-immigration rhetoric has galvanized immigrant voters, bringing them to the streets in protest and to the polling booth.
204 In a certain sense, liberalism and communalism is just the ideology rhetoric of the outer basis that individuals and types are opposed to each other.
205 In former times, people usually use single standard to define transferred epithet, which is one kind of all-around rhetoric way, dominated by traditional classical category theory.
206 It seems to us to be no coincidence that neo-Darwinian rhetoric in the literature of experimental biology has cooled detectably in recent years.
207 Chinese character rhetoric of riddle and alterative interpretation of intermittence reading .
208 After a flood ruined his family's sulfur mines, Pirandello began to support himself by teaching rhetoric and then Italian Literature at various local colleges.
209 It's in this period that Milton increasingly begins to adopt, or assume, Saint Peter's confident and denunciatory rhetoric.
210 Based on the existing researches, this paper carries out homonymy research from different points of views, like lexicology, semantics, rhetoric, pragmatics, comparative linguistics and so on.
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