Plus, the rhetorical punch is arguably more powerful coming from the people who helped create the problem, like Justin Rosenstein, co-inventor of Facebook’s “like” button, and Tim Kendall, former president of Pinterest.
Does Social Media Poison Everything? - Facts So Romantic|Scott Koenig|October 6, 2020|Nautilus
That the filibuster’s defenders cloak themselves in the glittering language of minority rights even as they’re using the filibuster to deny minorities rights is one of America’s more grotesque rhetorical inversions.
The definitive case for ending the filibuster|Ezra Klein|October 1, 2020|Vox
“The statement is largely a rhetorical public relations move rather than the harbinger of meaningful change,” say Lucian Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita of the Harvard Law School in a 65-page article, “The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance.”
Revisiting the Business Roundtable’s ‘Stakeholder Capitalism,’ one year later|Geoffrey Colvin|August 19, 2020|Fortune
My feeling is that there could be a positive dimension to reinvigorating the symbolic and the rhetorical power of the presidency.
Does the President Matter as Much as You Think? (Ep. 404)|Stephen J. Dubner|February 6, 2020|Freakonomics
But politicians abhor a rhetorical vacuum, and they have clamored to fill it.
The 2014 Novel of the Year|Nathaniel Rich|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Its rhetorical potential—if it ever had any—has been thoroughly exhausted.
The Problematic Hunt for a ‘Gay Gene’|Samantha Allen|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was a gracious touch, a rhetorical olive branch to his vanquished foes.
But this new flavor of rhetorical flimflam is still pretty, well, whack.
What Did You Do in the Targeted Action, Daddy?|John McWhorter|September 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yet the president uses it for rhetorical vividness—a clarity, as it were.
What Did You Do in the Targeted Action, Daddy?|John McWhorter|September 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The tone of the book, which ought to be a simple story, is stilted and rhetorical.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science|Various
"By science," said Miss Miniver, and hurried on, putting out a rhetorical hand that showed a slash of finger through its glove.
Ann Veronica|H. G. Wells
In Vida's Ars Poetica there are abundant evidences of the rhetorical and especially the puristic tendencies of modern classicism.
A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance|Joel Elias Spingarn
A glow of rhetorical enthusiasm was upon her cheeks and in her eye.
Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall|Jean K. Baird
My brother Dick was as rhetorical in his apologies with the hindermost, whom he dismounted.
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences|Arthur L. Hayward
British Dictionary definitions for rhetorical
rhetorical
/ (rɪˈtɒrɪkəl) /
adjective
concerned with effect or style rather than content or meaning; bombastic