| 单词 | rhetorical |
| 例句 | Again the language was dazzling and full of rhetorical tricks. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The liberal politician Charles Masterman warned that “he can convince himself of almost every truth if it is once allowed thus to start on its wild career through his rhetorical machinery. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Aristotle sought to rescue rhetoric from its place as a purely instrumental art: the highest rhetorical accomplishment, for Aristotle, was an expression of arete, or virtue. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z As I’ve remarked earlier, the most effective rhetoric is often the least obviously rhetorical. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z But poor Miss Warren, she answered my rhetorical question. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Shrewdly, they try to shift the terms of the argument to more congenial rhetorical ground—an approach that will force the friars to treat them as equals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z While the “Checkers Speech” has become famous for that crowning moment, the whole speech is a rhetorical classic. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z That was obviously a rhetorical question; Mrs. Burt wasn't even looking at her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z If the first oration against Catiline can be said to have a dominant figure, though, it is the rhetorical question. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z During this period, Nixon called for a “war on drugs”—an announcement that proved largely rhetorical as he declared illegal drugs “public enemy number one” without proposing dramatic shifts in drug policy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As she stood among them leading the conversation through small rhetorical hills, she looked around at “her girls” and could put them in categories by signs she recognized. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Newton’s modern biographer, Richard Westfall, concludes that we should regard Newton’s claim to have been surprised by the oblong image cast by the prism ‘as a rhetorical device which is not to be understood literally’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is difficult to spot a rhetorical question. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He turned around now to look at me, for he was still dueling, posing a rhetorical question, almost a joke. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Something about the tone of his voice or the reaction of the other children told me this was a purely rhetorical question. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Satan, in a classic rhetorical sleight of hand, doesn’t directly ask the question his speech hopes to answer. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Is that rhetorical or do you want me to answer?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Nearly half a century ago, a professor of entomology at Washington State College, A. L. Melander, asked the now purely rhetorical question, “Can insects become resistant to sprays?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The argument went on and on, and they became locked in a confused rhetorical exchange that left them exhausted, each accusing the other of being more stubborn than a mule. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The public—and the scientists themselves—imagine that the quality of the evidence determines the outcome; actually, we are told, it is the status, power and rhetorical skill of the combatants. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I thought that this might be another rhetorical question, but I wasn’t sure. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But he was with Quintilian in believing that there was a vital connection between virtue and rhetorical accomplishment. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The Pentagon, for its part, has given away military intelligence and millions of dollars in firepower to state and local agencies willing to make the rhetorical war a literal one. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The question was purely rhetorical, for when Dad rode, everybody rode. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He then sets out, just as per the ancient rhetorical handbook, three points of disagreement. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I didn’t pay any attention; he was always speaking when his thoughts were somewhere else, asking rhetorical questions and echoing other people’s words. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z York, who knew nothing of the high-level politics driving the Super debate, avoided giving a straight answer, but Lawrence’s question was mostly rhetorical. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Repetition is not always a rhetorical virtue,” said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks, and with them a sensitivity to how they mesh and how they clash. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Ideology,” then, had provided Jefferson with a politically attractive pro-French platform, which had turned out to have enormous rhetorical advantages no matter how wrong it proved in reality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For example: Here’s an explanation of the rhetorical term syllepsis: “the use of a word that relates to, qualifies, or governs two or more other words but has a different meaning in relation to each.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This was one of those rhetorical things Otto liked so much. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It was a rhetorical question, meaning there wasn’t supposed to be an answer, right? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, because of their historical and rhetorical association with the successful war against British imperialism, they were the most potent forces in the entire political culture. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Milton wasn’t the only writer in history to give Satan the rhetorical chops he deserves. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Dad would have to sit there and nod every time she asked a rhetorical question. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The adulation seems to have an intoxicating effect on the usually grounded Wayne, sending him on an uncharacteristic flight of rhetorical fancy. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The most influential rhetorical handbook between the ages of Cicero and Shakespeare, however, Ad Herennium, gives us six parts, which is the scheme I propose to adopt. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It was a disease, rhetorical smallpox, and every visitor exhibited it in some degree. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The rhetorical questions had a clammy air; the exclamation mark was the first resort of those who shout to make themselves clearer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It is quite characteristic of him at his best: well-told; several rhetorical monologues; a little essay on Love by the way. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Declarations of principled withdrawal from the hurly-burly of politics to the natural rhythms of one’s fields or farms had become rhetorical rituals. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Flashy, rhetorical openings were something I had to get the hang of. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was, as one biographer observed with an all but audible sigh, "almost entirely innocent of rhetorical accomplishments." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It seems like a silly question, rhetorical, for most people. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It seemed almost rhetorical, a ritual before the masters discussed the applicant’s tuition. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Not only did he miss the opportunity to disown the offensive characterization of Burr; he raised the rhetorical stakes with his dismissive tone and gratuitously defiant counterthreat. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Roughly: the more “rhetorical” it sounds—the more stuffed with extended metaphors, elaborate verbal patterning, and five-dollar words—the higher the style. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For Galileo’s rejection of the view that success in science can be based on rhetorical prowess, see below, p. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This sort of rhetorical stance isn’t the preserve of the English aristocrat. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “That wasn’t a rhetorical question. Do you know what your biggest problem is?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Haynes was waxing rhetorical—the critics don’t want to jettison everything from the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But that wondering is very rhetorical because no way would I give up my straight-A+ report card to risk a dabble in hobbies. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Jefferson would oversee and orchestrate this campaign and provide its rhetorical foundation, which enjoyed a privileged association with the spirit of ’76. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was a rhetorical question; I wasn’t really expecting an answer, but Millard gave me one anyway. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z "You girls are going to drive me crazy!" the mother said, but the girls had gotten used to the mother's rhetorical threats. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Our commerce, our politics, our cultural and social lives are all rhetorical to an extraordinary extent. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z In English, as Ms. Keaton reviews rhetorical devices, I’m thinking: Tats, how could you? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z It’s more a rhetorical question because I know the answer. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “That was rhetorical, Miss Nebraska. I’m thinkin’ that when we do finally get rescued, we want them to find us at our best. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Even when cited merely as a rhetorical device, the armed struggle was a sign that we were actively fighting the enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He also regarded as suspect the instrumental nature, and murky methods, of rhetorical persuasion—which, by contrast with the strict logic of philosophical inquiry, they are. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z A more democratic world—and one with the legal institutions that go hand in hand with democracy—is a more rhetorical one. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Here is another situation where repetition is not a rhetorical virtue. Clean up the mess, Mr. Hoodhood,” said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z What at another time might have been faults became rhetorical strengths. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “One might sooner scrawl on granite with a lilac than impress rhetorical niceties upon that woman.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “And then, having made my rhetorical point, I will put my robot eyes on, because I mean, with robot eyes you can probably see through girls’ shirts and stuff. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z They lamented and tore their hair, the priests, as fraught and rhetorical as they were when they prayed, and after a few days their outcries made people uneasy. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z When, for example, he posed the rhetorical question, “Is survival possible when civilization reverts to the law of the jungle?” his devoted listeners recognized the reference to Africa and African Americans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The grammatical mood is imperative, but the rhetorical effect is one of intimacy and humility. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The oath still has considerable informal rhetorical power, though. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Jack spreads his hands on the table, his favored stance rhetorical. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But that confusion can be turned to rhetorical advantage. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z In his singular voice, which combined a trace of a Spanish accent — his father was an immigrant from Spain — and years of cigar-smoke husk, Carril spoke in rhetorical questions. The Power of Pete Carril 2011-03-16T13:30:00Z Probably, I agree, taking it for a rhetorical question – but to my surprise Garcia looks suddenly stung. Andy Garcia: the outsider 2010-07-19T06:59:00Z These designations collapse at the level of rhetorical violence. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z The Mexican heroin gang — We knew the Cisco Kid, as Frank called him last week in one of his better rhetorical moments, was trouble. 'True Detective' Recap: Full Moons and Sex Parties 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z It’s a rhetorical style that’s made her a lightning rod for liberal critics, perhaps second only to Coulter. Laura Ingraham was ‘Trump before Trump.’ But is she made for TV? 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Okay With Being “Not the Best”: It was a rhetorical question, but here’s an answer anyway: A lot of people get “frustrated at someone for being too kind and supportive.” After a lifetime of criticism, parents are overcompensating by being too supportive 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z This is interesting information but the hazard is that art is turned into a rhetorical instrument rather than a bearer of illuminating or speculative ideas. ‘Greater New York,’ a Show of the Moment, Dwells in the Radical Past 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The song’s lingering question — “Now, who can stop the hail/When human senses fail?/There was never any warning, no escape” — sounded even more chilling, less a rhetorical query than a desperate warning. Why the return of Midnight Oil matters 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Its very rapidity leads to some gabbled speaking, and the hurtling style which Boyd adopted for Shakespeare's histories is sometimes ill-suited to a play full of rhetorical excess. Review|Theatre|Antony and Cleopatra, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon|Michael Billington 2010-05-10T23:18:00Z It is clever enough to avoid the rhetorical traps that lay about the women’s content business: It seems uninterested in either one-note outrage or hyper-positive empowerment. Five Great Podcasts From 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z These admissions don’t feel like rhetorical moves, ethical appeals meant to earn the reader’s good will. In the Hands of Janet Malcolm, Journalism Becomes Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z “This one is not a rhetorical question,” I told my father when he didn’t answer. I took my dead father to a Red Sox game 2013-03-09T15:00:00Z “The court agrees with Mr. Trump’s argument because the tweet in question constitutes ‘rhetorical hyperbole’ normally associated with politics and public discourse in the United States,” he wrote. Perspective | Trump trashes the laws that protect free speech. But he would be lost without them. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z At some point, Lulu’s father asks her if what she’s done is meaningful, and as I reread the story, the question doesn’t strike me as simply rhetorical. Te-Ping Chen on the Nihilism of the Internet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z But the link between martial and rhetorical skill goes back to Western literature's beginning. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z Both Kelly and Jones have leaned into the ridiculous idea that Christmas — a rhetorical stand-in for White America™ — is being destroyed in a war waged by godless multiculturalists. Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones: Two peas in a pod 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The discussion of musical rhetoric, too, delivered in pointedly rhetorical style by Gary Thor Wedow, an erudite conductor who doubled here as harpsichordist, was revealing. Music Review: At the Met, Dance, Chant and Song Span the Centuries 2010-03-15T21:48:00Z Humor remains a rhetorical weapon that American conservatives simply cannot harness. Conservatives just aren’t funny: Why the right will never have its own Stephen Colbert 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The rhetorical hot balloons that float out of Silicon Valley deserve puncturing. Andrew Keen rages against the machine in 'The Internet Is Not the Answer' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Shot through with looping rhetorical jokes and sight gags that play on the absurdities of the urban environment, the film seeks answers for thorny moral questions in the startling clarity only afforded by dreams. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The judge called the on-air remarks “rhetorical hyperbole and opinion commentary intended to frame a political debate, and as such, are not actionable as defamation,” the judge said in a written ruling. Judge dismisses suit against Fox over Trump affair story 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Feltz breezed through the morning's topics, drawing on rhetorical questions and her impressive vocabulary to stir discussion. Radio head: Vanessa Feltz 2010-11-24T08:00:00Z A few minutes in, I already found myself thinking in Irbese: gazing at an everyday task and letting the rhetorical questions stack up to a teetering absurdity. Some Personal News From Samantha Irby 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The mustachioed Brack plays Booth with a fierce gaze and fiery rhetorical style that befits the tragedian he actually was onstage. Voices of political outsiders, from Booth to poetic radicals 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, noted that the main appeal of such memes is their participatory nature and their openness to interpretation. The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z The album is like that throughout: heartbreak is just an occasion to be better; pain exists mainly for rhetorical contrast. Carly Rae Jepsen’s Ecstatic Hymns to Love 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z There’s a joke in the screenplay that suggests that Doueiri already knew the answer to that rhetorical question: “We live in the Middle East,” one character says. Oscar-nominated ‘The Insult’ reopens old wounds — but to heal them 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Her speech condemning him was in the rhetorical league of Cicero flaying Catiline, and with better reason. Clive James: ‘Hillary should have told Trump at least once to go screw himself’ 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Here is Michael on the private plane and in the S.U.V., giving the candidate tips on how to use a “ ‘blacker’ rhetorical style” during his debate performances against a surging Hillary Clinton. ‘The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America,’ by Michael Eric Dyson 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Nearly every chapter closes with a loud rhetorical bang. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style By appearing at rallies or speaking at fundraising events, the network’s hosts and contributors risk making the connection to the party more than just a rhetorical one. Fox News personalities continue to stump for GOP candidates 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The large public buildings follow from the houses, incorporating elements of what worked there into more coherent and rhetorical forms. Frank Gehry’s variations on a theme 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s certainly a question that can be asked in the usual rhetorical, judgmental way. ‘The Worst Person in the World’ Review: Oslo, Her Way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z It ends with a rhetorical comparison of the land and the sea. Sea Story by AS Byatt 2013-03-15T13:58:58Z She dismissed the case, explaining that Carlson’s commentary qualified as “rhetorical hyperbole” and “opinion commentary” and was therefore “not actionable as defamation.” "Do they not realize I like to fight?" The 6 most revealing details from "Network of Lies" 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z We’ve been here before: A movie pointedly tests what seems to be an established boundary of propriety, and rhetorical battle lines are drawn. Film: Brutal Truths About Screen Bloodshed in ?Kick-Ass? 2010-04-16T18:47:00Z But the words “What is happening to America?” are too often accompanied by a shaking of the head; taking the form of a rhetorical query as opposed to serving as a gateway to proposed solutions. Smart Watch: The notorious “RBG” comes to CNN and more top TV picks for the week 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z This is not a rhetorical question these days. Just How Tall Can Roller Coasters Get? 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The question was always meant to be rhetorical, something for the characters on the show to grapple with rather than for the audience. Why it won’t matter if the “Leftovers” finale provides answers or not 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z As the Trollingers note early on, “all museums, just like the Creation Museum, are rhetorical — that is, their purposes are persuasive, and their claims are never neutral.” A look inside the Creation Museum's cabinet of curiosities 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The book “deftly guides the reader through the rhetorical and philosophical moves of Baldwin’s speech,” Meaney writes, and “becomes revelatory in its interpretation of Buckley’s performance.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z However, her treatment of the trial is extraordinary just because it isn't rhetorical: despite that backdrop, the space she creates is real and not mythic. Laura Knight: The unashamed illustrator 2013-07-06T08:01:40Z People who indulge in this kind of rhetorical inflation are like rats spreading bubonic plague. Dear Movie Industry, We Have Thoughts 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Soon, I answer my own rhetorical question: Yes, a hike on a paved trail is a hike, at least if that hike is in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z It’s not a rhetorical film, and the audiences that went to see it were art-house audiences. How an 80-Minute Polish Film in Black and White Became a Breakout Hit 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z As a writer, she employs rhetorical flourishes and imprecise similes that are not just senseless; they actively detract from the narrative. A Botanist’s Desire Turns Toxic in This Novel of Romantic Obsession 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z This lyrical climax — among the most famous in literature — becomes more a rhetorical exercise than an epiphany of self-revelation. Review: ‘The Dead, 1904’ Brings Existential Unease to the Party 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Corot is the least rhetorical, the least bombastic of the great 19th-century painters. Review | A 19th-century painting that rivals the Mona Lisa 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z He is capable of rhetorical organization; more often he scatters his rhetoric like seed, or like curses. Bob Dylan on the Page: Poetry and Prose to Match Any American Writer 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Alternating between weeping and yelling, he exemplified the conservative’s embrace of bluster and petulance as rhetorical tools. The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings Will Be Remembered As a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z “In between his racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic and anti-Semitic rhetorical outbursts, Buchanan speaks cogently and with conviction about a number of subjects -- including trade, abortion and foreign policy -- that clearly resonate with voters,” Tapper explained. Pat Buchanan back on PBS, really? Why we don't need a "McLaughlin Group" revival now 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Is there perhaps a logical flaw in your rhetorical swirl? Are university lectures doomed? 2013-05-05T08:00:04Z She asks rhetorical questions as she looks intently at her laptop. | 'Jersey Couture': On Oxygen, Picking Party Dresses in New Jersey 2010-05-31T23:44:00Z No rhetorical questions were posed in the Letters page of the Guardian Weekend magazine, Saturday 15 January 2011. Internet picks of the week 2011-02-12T00:05:36Z He referenced Martin Luther King Jr., whose words have been so repeated, so decontextualized by errant politicians, that they’ve become rhetorical armor. Perspective | Trump got his crowd and his fireworks, and peddled his fiction 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Walt’s own zest for intellectual combat, though, can lead him into rhetorical overkill. A Foreign Policy Realist Challenges America’s Zeal for Intervention 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But Ms. Jansen husbands her rhetorical powers carefully. Janine Jansen and Itamar Golan Balance Power and Nuance at Zankel Hall 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The play grapples with such topical concerns as the fickleness of public sentiment, the rhetorical shenanigans of demagogues and the weaponizing of fake news, which Cassius deploys to convert Brutus to the conspirators’ side. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The narrator makes one final rhetorical appeal to the crowd, but soon realizes its futility — “I had no words and no eloquence.” Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z “Sophisticated Lady” was radiant with empathy: Ms. Martin sang the rhetorical line “Is that all you really want?” with an air of counsel, rather than censure. Music Review: Spare Vocals Illuminate Emotions Underneath 2011-01-29T00:07:18Z Instead of treating his question as rhetorical, he darkened his mood in an instant to eyes-blazing rage: “Answer me!” he yelled at the audience, before apologizing for losing his temper. A Comic on the Verge, His Absurdism on the Fly 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z His tone tipped us off that his query was rhetorical, so we waited patiently for the answer. Found in Cuba: The American Dream (and nightmare) 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z But evoking illicitness is important to their identity—it gives them the frisson of speaking the forbidden, a rhetorical strategy that Daum also deploys. Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The literary interpretations of Dracula among readers range from rhetorical analysis to memes of the vampire, said Gorski. How Bram Stoker’s Dracula Became ‘Dracula Daily,’ and an Internet Sensation 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z He popularized a rhetorical stance that makes people feel worried about caring too much about their values in public lest they get mocked as vain blowhards. From Stuff White People Like to #NotYourShield: How irony is killing activism 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Primo Levi, when he wrote about Auschwitz, used very factual, almost dry language, without rhetorical ornaments. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z Before I could answer the rhetorical question, my attention was distracted by the arrival of something called an iwagaki rock oyster. In Search of Japan’s Hidden Culinary Revolution 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z So I welcome the removal of the name "asbo" and all its rhetorical implications. David Mitchell: I'm glad the asbo is going, but most rebranding is just a distraction 2011-02-13T00:05:37Z Like many other civil rights activists, he was called a Communist — a label whose loose rhetorical function is echoed in the word “terrorist” today. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z It amounts to a protest against the hyper-politicization of everything, an attempt to reclaim popular culture as a demilitarized zone in the midst of our collective rhetorical forever war. ‘The Hunt’ Review: The Culture War, With Heavy Casualties 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z This kind of vulgar concept presentation doesn't help Mutter's case one jot and too often carries through to the over rhetorical playing. Brahms: The Violin Sonatas/ Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis | CD review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z Much in “The State of Music” has not aged well, though its rhetorical force remains strong. ‘Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings’ Paints a Troubling Portrait 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Murray appears to want it both ways: to gesture at a more nuanced and precise formulation but also to harness, when he chooses, the raw rhetorical power of railing against woke dogmas about race. Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Find out by deducing who or what is being described in the following extracts: 1 "A device that answers a rhetorical question you weren't really asking." The G2 Quiz of 2010: Charlie Brooker's quiz 2010-12-23T08:00:01Z They both employ the same maddening rhetorical device in the face of conflict. Pater Familiar: Watching Andrew Cuomo's pandemic briefings finally let me grieve my father 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z “Words Like Loaded Pistols” sports a fabulous assortment of examples of time-tested rhetorical gambits in action. “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z “Miami and the Siege of Chicago” is a companion volume to “Armies of the Night”—not as extensive, as grand, but in no way inferior in descriptive and rhetorical power. A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z The science community is supposed to interpret for the rest of us, but its dialect does not always pack rhetorical oomph. How should we talk about what’s happening to our planet? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Then, in the 1980s, an ascendant conservative movement began a blistering rhetorical assault on what Ronald Reagan called the “dreaded l-word.” Bernie Sanders is often called a liberal. He’d beg to differ. Who is actually a liberal? 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Clutching at his cap like a security blanket, Mr. McKellen is in supreme physical and rhetorical command of a wonderfully mercurial part. In Pinter’s ‘No Man’s Land,’ Actor-Knights Wield Their Words 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Here it’s an actual question, not a rhetorical one. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Advertisement The President’s fluency with the impassioned rhetorical maneuvers of the black church is a gift he only sometimes shares. All the Best Shows, of What the Critics Have Seen 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Hillary Clinton said those three words in the final months of her 2016 presidential campaign, making rhetorical and political history. Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ speech shocked voters five years ago — but some feel it was prescient 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Add to it the narrative voice: that of an almost giddy sommelier expressing himself with too many exclamation points and rhetorical question marks. If Tea Isn’t Your Cuppa, How About Beer, Wine or Coffee? 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z But while Pautz's play is entertaining and well acted, it is also muddled, substituting rhetorical gesture for real argument. Love the Sinner 2010-05-13T21:50:00Z The justification for “Report your Neighbor” draws from that fulsome rhetorical well where the government just wants to protect innocent women and children from “barbaric cultural practices.” White people don’t have to worry about Canada’s new “report your neighbor” hotline 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The thing I have a problem with in theater is when tired rhetorical questions like that start being hurled at the audience. ‘Bastards of Strindberg,’ Four Short Plays at the Lion 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Like the early rhetorical efforts of the NCAS, the proposed guidelines are full of holes and confusion, and the draft document, obtained by The Post, doesn’t look terribly professional. Perspective | Why Trump shouldn’t be allowed to dictate how federal buildings are designed 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z In September, he upped the rhetorical ante, saying in a speech, “When you see ‘Democratic Party,’ it’s wrong. ‘The Democrat Party’: Trump needles the opposition by truncating its name 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s the verbal one who provides the work’s dominant element: an intermittent series of fortune-cookie rhetorical questions that function like phrases in textual art. Review: Wait, Wait … I Want to Tell You. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z What’s almost always a winning approach when writing for Trump, people who know Trump say, is to hew to language and a rhetorical style that doesn’t sound too lofty. The perilous high-wire act of writing speeches for Donald Trump 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Then Geraldo Rivera, hot with feeling, broke in to offer himself as a “designated piñata,” due to receive a rhetorical beating for his contrarian thoughts. The Reliable Volatility of Geraldo Rivera on Fox News 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z In response, Lerner goes back and forth on Whitman’s ambiguities -- his “belief in american exceptionalism” and his abiding individualism, his “utopian corporate vision” and his “secular radicalism,” the two sides of one rhetorical self. Brevity is the soul of 'The Honest Pint,' a broadside on poetics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Which is to say that it’s not a comprehensive view of the war, not a history of the war, not a visual documentation of battles or atrocities, not a rhetorical effort at advocacy. What’s Missing from the German Cinema 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Such rhetorical contortions are probably the consequence of what he derides as our obsession with causal inference. Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Zelenskyy doesn’t possess the same rhetorical prowess as Churchill did in radio messages as German bombs rained down upon London, says Osgood, the propaganda expert. A modern Churchill? Zelenskyy praised as war communicator 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z In “Four Lions,” a farce that recognizes the limits of humor and the existence of tragedy, comedy is a means of illuminating the rhetorical confusion and knee-jerk pieties surrounding a charged subject. Film: The Gang That Couldn?t Bomb Straight 2010-10-23T16:08:00Z His policy platform was accessible in his soaring oratory, featuring rhetorical gems like, "We must leave the racial battleground to find economic common ground. Then, we can reach for moral higher ground." Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z From his smirking lips issue rhetorical bombshells that even the most fervent supporter of Arizona’s new immigration law wouldn’t dare utter in public. | 'Machete': Growl, and Let the Severed Heads Fall Where They May 2010-09-02T20:53:00Z A few songs into her performance at the Fillmore Silver Spring, Jazmine Sullivan asked the audience a pointed rhetorical question: “It’s been a while, right?” Jazmine Sullivan: One of R&B’s richest voices soars at Fillmore after hiatus 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z More to the point, theater makers seem to be scurrying to take up rhetorical arms and secure a place in the vanguard of artistic resistance. Perspective | The president opens his mouth daily, and the American theater bites back 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Verse, diction, rhetorical patterns — attention to these matters is what allowed a play to live again. Remembering theater director and Royal Shakespeare founder Peter Hall, who turned language into life 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z This is rhetorical, of course – yes, it's fair. How the media at large failed Gayle King 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z At other points, like an extended rhetorical attack on the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, the filmmakers seem to be riding an ideological hobby horse down a dead-end street. Movie Review: ?The Forgotten Space,? From No?l Burch and Allan Sekula 2012-02-14T22:44:43Z He also pauses protractedly to kneel before the Vogue “fashion superdeity” Anna Wintour, to whom he poses the rhetorical question, “What’s it like to listen to the cracking knee joints that accompany my curtsies?” Books Of Style: Simon Doonan: In the Mind of a Ringmaster 2013-09-06T22:49:41Z Connecting Covid-19 not only to ecological disaster but also to the pandemic of racism, he finally aims at antagonists worthy of his rhetorical big guns. Review: Live Theater Returns, With Mike Daisey and His Beefs 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z In the beginning, it seemed preposterous, but over the course of the talk it appeared likely that Flex identified part of Tyler’s rhetorical strength: the veneer of who-me innocence. Tyler, the Creator, Funkmaster Flex and the Wildest Interview of the Year 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z His intentions and his technical control weigh the movie down like rhetorical ballast; Waterston simply sheds them, blows them away. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “Do not leave me; stay focused,” he said, a rhetorical wink that also put us on his shoulder, riding along. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Ferguson's lecturing style – punchy, starchy, rhetorical, swooping cadences, emphatic pauses and more than a little pleased with itself – almost entirely eclipsed the content. A week in radio: The Reith Lectures; Your World 2012-06-21T20:30:02Z Leith, a British journalist and novelist, wants to revive the formal appreciation of rhetorical technique, but he acknowledges that today it’s precisely when we are most aware of rhetorical skill that we condemn it. “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z Ferenc Molnar’s comedy “The Guardsman” turns on the notion that the question is essentially rhetorical. | 'The Guardsman': In the Berkshires, Revisiting Molnar?s ?Guardsman? 2010-07-19T21:49:00Z RuPaul likes to speak in deeply heartfelt but somewhat opaque rhetorical flourishes, so I ask if he means that Drag Race has a political message about humanity. RuPaul: ‘Drag is a big f-you to male-dominated culture’ 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z At last I may step out of the rhetorical forest and lay down my less than rhetorical steak knife. The war on fat is over – and I won 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Sketches, if seen as less “rhetorical,” may read as more truthful. Review | A Rubens exhibition asks: Are first thoughts best? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” was rhetorical in Shakespeare’s day – suicide was forbidden by God and worse than murder. What I have learned from my suicidal patients 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z “The speed with which the term became polarized and in fact a rhetorical weapon illustrates how efficient the conservative media machine has become,” said George Washington University professor Nikki Usher. It’s time to retire the tainted term ‘fake news’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Here, too, the play’s rhetorical register climbs at an alarming rate, as Chester rediscovers his preacher’s voice and uses it to show Donaldo how he has strayed from the true path. Theater Review: ‘Storefront Church,’ by John Patrick Shanley 2012-06-12T02:00:13Z It gave Pressley — who tends to speak of her vision of government in sweeping, intersectional terms and rhetorical paragraphs — a very specific problem to attack. For Ayanna Pressley, the beauty of unexpected wins led to Congress and a historic office 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Socrates was withering when it came to a polished rhetorical performance. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z “There is no single way to best tell the story of climate change, no single rhetorical approach likely to work on a given audience, and none too dangerous to try,” Wallace-Wells writes. In ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ Apocalypse Is Now 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z In this famous exchange, the clock is used as a rhetorical device rather than a visual one. Clip joint: Timepieces 2012-07-18T12:31:00Z In Mr. Nunn’s plays, Mr. Daniels said, speaking by telephone: “The pain and the joy is utterly real. It’s never rhetorical, it’s never just noise, it’s never abstract.” Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Is it just a rhetorical shrug, or are you sincerely open to change? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She’s your best friend, but are you hers? 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z And “The Unknown Known,” which draws its title from one of Mr. Rumsfeld’s most famous rhetorical flights, is very much a battle of wits and words. Movie Review: Deciphering Donald H. Rumsfeld in ‘The Unknown Known’ 2014-04-01T22:00:03Z While many of Khalidi’s insights are thought-provoking, their persuasiveness is undermined at times by a tendency to shave the rhetorical corner. Is There Any Way to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Borisimus has an instinctive grasp of rhetorical devices, such as digressio and anacoluthon, that lesser mortals such as myself have spent a lifetime learning. The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-06-02T17:00:01Z Or Michael Corleone in "The Godfather" asking, "Where is it written that you can't kill a cop?" -- a rhetorical question that presupposes that such texts don't exist if you choose not to read them. "The Social Network": A modern horror film 2010-10-04T18:01:00Z This is what men's rights activists do, and it's a really effective rhetorical tactic when the person in charge says, "I'm actually being victimized. I'm not victimizing other people. I'm actually the victim." Lindy West reclaims the "witch hunt": On comedy, feminism and why terrible men think they're victims 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Disclosures are often cushioned by whimsical rhetorical devices. Jenny Slate Wrote a Book-Shaped Thing. What Is It? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Though McCain criticized Trump for his rhetorical response to the crisis, she argued last week that Democrats should not criticize his racist labeling of the disease as the "Chinese virus." Meghan McCain announces she is pregnant after suffering a miscarriage last year 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Lewis defended his comments as “rhetorical” in nature in a local radio interview. Said something you’d like to forget? CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski won’t let it go. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The rhetorical cotton candy — sugary, jargon-clotted arts gush — asserts that the arts nurture ‘civically valuable dispositions’ and a sense of ‘community and connectedness.’ Perspective | It’s not an attack on the arts, it’s an attack on communities 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z But the “grandeur that was, the rhetorical once,” can operate with unpredictable force on the contemporary mind: Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The medical details of the disease are less important than the rhetorical impact of the destructive virus. Apocalyptic fiction helps us deal with the anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Not even the masters of the high/low rhetorical register go higher more panoramically or lower more exuberantly than Wallace — not Joyce, not Bellow, not Amis. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z But as I've demonstrated in my work researching ancient Greco-Roman epic poetry, the origin of this sort of rhetorical violence goes back thousands of years. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z There were moments when the hall itself felt almost alive with shifting colors, textures and rhetorical emphases. Ursula Oppens shows why she’s a champion of American piano music 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z The rhetorical heat makes it a natural for the stage, too, and particularly for Arena Stage, which with dramas such as “The Originalist” and “Camp David” has invested heavily in hot-button topicality. Top 10 choices (possibly) in the new theater season 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z There’s a pithy theory of the Other couched within rhetorical questions. “My Dinner with Hervé” Is a Testament to Peter Dinklage’s Charisma 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z One of the effects of the newly democratized public sphere, which isn’t good or bad in itself, is the intense focus on symbolic and/or rhetorical politics. Why we fight about Colbert and Lena Dunham: Twitter politics are all we have left 2014-03-29T16:00:00Z Witt constructs his argument carefully, rarely allowing himself a rhetorical flourish, but the conclusion he arrives at is devastating. Using the Law to Fight Epidemics, for Better and Worse 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z On this new album, Andrew Staples traces arresting melodies with rhetorical poise and makes an eloquent interpreter of three of Britten’s orchestral song cycles: “Les Illuminations”; Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings; and Nocturne. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z I am not going to get in the game of choosing one performance over the other; both negotiate the leaps in rhetorical register, from the plain-vanilla vernacular to the robustly lyric, with impressive nimbleness. Theater Review: ?An Iliad? at New York Theater Workshop 2012-03-08T03:00:16Z Yet, while the Barr controversy was topically immediate and unavoidable, the Gunn one was carefully calculated and drummed up with specific rhetorical intent. Was James Gunn the first undeserving victim of Hollywood’s new zero-tolerance policy? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z A former child preacher, he remained a natural, if somewhat reluctant, performer — a master of the heavy sigh, the raised eyebrow and the rhetorical flourish. Review: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Will Make You Rethink Race 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z But this is in part rhetorical cover for a business arrangement the nonprofit theater has made with a slew of outside producers. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z This is the kind of rhetorical dishwater that can just as easily apply to a Meghan Trainor song or a Fox News segment. ‘S O S: Poems 1961-2013,’ Works by Amiri Baraka 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z The Minnesota Orchestra's with their music director Osmo Vänskä were object lessons in the creation of excitement and meaning without resorting to rhetorical extremes. Proms 56 & 57: Minnesota Orchestra/V?nsk? 2010-08-29T11:52:00Z The reality is that our rhetorical cries of “Why?” are inauthentic—they are actually an attempt to shamefully accuse others of being fundamentally different and provide us comfortable psychological distance. We need a new way to talk about guns: Blame, rage and UCLA 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Though Cornsilk never formally studied law, his voice bellowed with the rhetorical ire of a white-shoed seasoned litigator. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z There's an odd and ugly bit of rhetorical jiujitsu seemingly at work here. Kevin Spacey’s Coming Out Is a Cheap Distraction 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z The third, who cares for a small group of orphaned gorillas in a park facility, is not being rhetorical when he speaks of them as family. 'Virunga' captures drama of African rangers guarding gorillas 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z “There is no politician with his rhetorical skills or the ability he once had to connect with the common sense of the time,” James Morris, a pollster, wrote. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Odysseus hits so hard because Thersites had scored real rhetorical points. Trump, Troilus, and Cressida 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z But, looking at today, he presents his own fortress, his own ambitions, and his own ideals as coming under siege through the rhetorical contagion of a young woman and her mostly female followers. Woody Allen’s Secondhand Sixties Radicalism 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In “The Eloquent Screen,” Perez develops a grand theory of the cinema but doesn’t trumpet this theory in bold rhetorical declarations. A Tribute to My Teacher Gilberto Perez and His Eloquent Philosophy of Cinema 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Rankine assumes the perspective of all Black women as a bold rhetorical gesture, to indict the presumed neutrality of whiteness and call out its ramifications. ‘Help’ Review: Blindfolds (and Kid Gloves) Off. Let’s Analyze Whiteness. 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Michael Moore told us repeatedly that Trump was going to win, but that seemed like a rhetorical exercise, intended to get Democrats off the couch on Election Day. Leonard Cohen, Hillary Clinton and the future: Where does the Democratic Party go after this crushing defeat? 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The art is meant to look “naive,” or simple, or homespun, rather than polished, finished, contrived or rhetorical. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z For the artist, who is Mexican American, it was a response, in part, to a common rhetorical question he'd heard over the course of his life. Daniel Joseph Martinez offers a front-row seat to a famous artistic murder -- starring himself 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z With his careful mix of plainspoken honesty and reactionary delusion, Trump is following an old rhetorical playbook, one defined and employed successfully in the 1936 presidential campaign of Senator Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip. It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Watching one of his movies, you are always aware of the presence of his style, and of the dense weave of references, rhetorical curlicues and half-hidden meanings through which a story takes shape. ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines? 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Unruly as his rhetorical strategies are, Ventura is ultimately quite convincing about the ineffectuality of the War on Drugs, and on the contradictions and corruptions of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a particular bugbear of his. Marijuana won big on election night: Four books to help process our new reality 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The phrase is cumbersome, and it carries the stench of self-pity, but it earns absolution for its rhetorical sins with its substantive veracity. Toxic masculinity doesn’t just target women: The viciousness and vacuity of modern American manhood is also harmful to the self 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z His style, using a modern cello but a period bow, was waspish and rhetorical, with phrases picked apart and a buzz to the sound. Matt Haimovitz and Bach, Colonizing Columbia’s Campus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z In the sympathetic documentary “Loudmouth,” the Rev. Al Sharpton recounts the time Coretta Scott King admonished him for his rhetorical excesses. ‘Loudmouth’ Review: Portrait of the Firebrand Preacher as a Young Man 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z There were many stories told about Michael Brown and the meaning of his life and death, each with its own rhetorical shape. Webcams in Ferguson offer noncurated views distinct from TV news 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z “You start low, you build slow, you throw in some rhetorical questions, you build up, build up, build up!” On a Virginia driving tour, tracing patriot Patrick Henry’s path to history 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z In Freud's rhetorical ploys, he's always pitting himself against creative writers, which is why Nabokov and Virginia Woolf, for instance, took the bait and bristled accordingly. Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z What followed was not clarification but something closer to six paragraphs of rhetorical quicksand: Every time I struggled to understand what the two architects were trying to say I sank further into the muck. For architects, Trump's wall reveals as much as it promises to close off 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z One other thing: What is the record for rhetorical questions in a single paragraph? Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero 2011-06-16T15:55:00Z In my case, the question wasn't merely rhetorical. Why a folding plug won last night's design awards | Justin McGuirk 2010-03-17T13:08:00Z How many rhetorical poses and stylistic gags can one endure through this misanthropic critique of American culture? Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z I suggest if you find yourself alone with your feelings that you align yourself with feminist women and find a rhetorical, intellectual and ideological home for your intuitive and emotional grasp of the situation. How do strip clubs hurt me? 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “What’s with you people here?” he demands at one point in their journey, a rhetorical question. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls’: surviving suffering in Uganda 2014-03-26T19:50:24Z It also tries, through a barrage of rhetorical questions, to determine who was to blame for Gordon’s death — the man himself? Review | The biography that changed biography forever 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The question was rhetorical, and people crowded around him in that unlikely and not ideal locale were there to learn the answer, not give it. Dance Review: ‘Flex Is Kings Live,’ at the Dumbo Arts Festival 2012-10-02T22:16:57Z When Trump's e-troops marched in misleading rhetorical lock-step from tweet to tweet, Rainbow countered by creating digital clones of himself to sing in perfect harmony. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Whatever your feelings about Sandra Boynton, it is hard to deny the rhetorical power of her hymn to sleepwear, “Pajama Time.” “Pat the Bunny” is kind of twisted and other lessons I learned from picture books 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Buccola, a professor of political science at Linfield College, deftly guides the reader through the rhetorical and philosophical moves of Baldwin’s speech. When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z As he follows scientists into thickets, real and rhetorical, he keeps an eye not only on the rigor demanded by science, but on the wonder and play and curiosity — the noodling — of serious creativity. David Quammen Turns Tough Science Into Page-Turning Pleasure 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The president just showed how easy it is to pollute rhetorical space. Perspective | Think of the debate as a public park. The president was polluting it. 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z It is protected by a self-deprecating humour and a rhetorical elegance – not to mention a superb production by Mark Thomson – but it is essentially raw and exposed. Every One | Theatre review 2010-03-23T22:00:00Z Rubio’s Christie-induced debate malfunction a few weeks back—a tortured repetition of slick bullet points—was a perfect stand-in for the rhetorical stasis that Trump is currently dynamiting. Jokes and Shame, from Chris Rock to Donald Trump 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Composing an envoi while fighting a duel, or reciting the famed catalog of rhetorical styles for insulting his nose, Mr. Hodge’s Cyrano is a man of brilliant bombast and many voices. Theater Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ With Douglas Hodge 2012-10-12T02:00:00Z She loves a rhetorical question to which the answer more often than not is “no.” Suze Orman Is Back to Help You Ride Out the Storm 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z It sounds like a rhetorical question, but it doesn’t satisfy William, who politely rebuffs her advances. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 2: If You Can’t Tell, Does It Matter? 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z In the so-far rhetorical argument of what punishment they’d propose for women who committed “murder” if abortion were illegal as such, “pro-lifers” prefer to talk about levying penalties on doctors. V-word vs. P-word 2012-06-26T15:57:00Z The walkout prompted a rhetorical “What do you expect from an Adam Sandler film?,” and a Netflix spokesman said that in the movie, blacks, Mexicans and whites were lampooned as well. Native American Actors Work to Overcome a Long-Documented Bias 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z As he gets older he sometimes works himself up into the kind of rhetorical lather best suited for teenage diaries. Review | From cult to Stanford to stardom: ‘Hollywood Park’ traces an indie rocker’s tumultuous path 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z So, to the degree that I internalized it, I put it in that compartment of "icky" and "We'll never really know the truth" — those rhetorical devices we rely on to distance ourselves. In ‘Allen v. Farrow,’ looking for the last word on a notoriously unresolved story 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Trump’s rhetorical talent for stirring the fascist beast that lurks within the national character merely helped the show seem more conceivable and therefore more frightening. Review | ‘American Horror Story’ tries to make the Trump era scarier than it actually is 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Early in the film, Mr. Reiner asks a rhetorical question: “How come we got the extra years? Was it luck, good genes, modern medicine? Or are we doing something right?” For Carl Reiner and His Fellow Nonagenarians, Death Can Wait 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z It probably only seemed like a rhetorical question. The Art of the Vladimir Putin Photo Shoot 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Swaggart had incredible timing as well as rhetorical cleverness: as much as he lambasted show business, he knew that a Patsy Cline reference could capture an audience’s attention. | 'Get Mad at Sin!': Andrew Dinwiddie as Jimmy Swaggart at the Chocolate Factory 2010-06-01T21:01:00Z To grasp this “rational” approach to reading, Lynch asks you to transport yourself back to a time when, in place of today’s literary culture, what scholars call “rhetorical” culture reigned. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z But, comrades, this debate will not be won or lost on rhetorical merit. 'The Americans' Recap: Prepared to Carry On 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Doten channels Trump’s verbal tics and rhetorical poverty so perfectly it’s chilling. Review | Most novelists avoid all mentions of Donald Trump. Mark Doten went the other direction. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z There’s a verse rapped in sure-footed triplet cadence, but all of the song’s tension comes from the pained rhetorical in the introduction: “Should I stick it out?” The Playlist: Bruno Mars Gives His Funk a Flashy Makeover 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z “Gnit” is brainy and full of rhetorical magic, but with more dimension and greater relevance it could be spellbinding. Review: ‘Gnit’ Seeks Itself in a Mist of Magic and Mischief 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z She knew that the rhetorical capacity of the rallying call “Black Lives Matter” was degraded each time the slogan got into hostile or opportunistic mouths. On the Hypnotic “Room 25,” Noname Comes of Age 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z When “Perchance to Dream” was released, Martin Amis, writing in these pages, argued that most readers couldn’t spot the difference between Chandler’s and Parker’s rhetorical flourishes — both had written too many duds. It’s 1988 and Philip Marlowe Is Retired. But Not for Long. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Left unchecked, the rhetorical implications of these narratives can lead to discriminatory behaviour or racism. Apocalyptic fiction helps us deal with the anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The question in the refrain — “Who run the world?” — isn’t rhetorical. The many ways pop culture warned us about the 2016 election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z If the rhetorical temperature on Saturday was lower, that was the point. Amid the Monument Wars, a Rally for ‘More History’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z One of the lessons Vidal would use his rhetorical ability and agility to amplify was the historical warning of Ancient Rome: “A nation cannot be a republic and an empire at the same time.” The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The aphorist imagines a rhetorical algebra; everything is structured like an equation. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z He described eloquence as “the performance of a rhetorical gesture to heal.” “You can’t coddle white brothers and sisters”: The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Again, Perez presents his ideas through careful considerations of the films’ crucial moments and themes, the filmmakers’ careers and real-world identities and contexts, and the rhetorical figures that he discerns in their work. A Tribute to My Teacher Gilberto Perez and His Eloquent Philosophy of Cinema 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z She’s much given to sudden rhetorical gearshifts — she’ll swerve from a flight of melancholy lyricism straight into a thicket of profanity, shaking off her own eloquence like a bad mood. Are Her Characters Seeing Things? Maybe. Maybe Not. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s an impotent rhetorical flourish inherited from your forefathers, a piece of indignant punctuation when your child has just told you, for instance, with a straight face, that they “don’t know” where their phone is. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z The series that really rocked the boat was The Shock of the New, the tremendous, rhetorical, acutely insightful 1980 television history of modern art by critic Robert Hughes. Civilisation in HD: Which other shows deserve a high-def makeover? 2011-02-09T11:29:55Z It's a rhetorical question, but in the process of recording Synthetica, they found the answer, after recruiting Lou Reed as a guest vocalist on dreamy track The Wanderlust. Metric: the band putting angst on the agenda 2012-06-25T16:59:01Z Dominant and submissive are, she said, rhetorical and energetic states, and can be unmoored from the social hierarchies that empower men. Here’s How to Deal With Men (Thwack!) 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z They cannot be checked off, like so many rhetorical points. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z But now Goldwater’s statement, with its balanced clauses, its formality, seems merely rhetorical, a flourish more than a threat. The Plot Against America: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z It hasn’t escaped David Simon and George Pelecanos, the creator and a producer of “The Wire,” who have returned to their geographic and rhetorical turf with “We Own This City,” beginning on HBO Monday. ‘We Own This City’ Review: Baltimore Police Problems, Rewired 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z She constantly interrupts herself, asking rhetorical questions, aborting thoughts, shifting into digressions. Critic’s Notebook: Julie Klausner’s Podcast, ‘How Was Your Week?’ 2012-12-31T23:26:34Z He can quickly rouse himself to the full rhetorical anger of the midnight blogger, while all the time carefully positioning his business as both the authentic voice of the outsider, and the new mainstream. Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice – it's within my grasp' 2013-03-23T22:24:20Z The group cited both Trump’s rhetorical hostility toward the American news media and a possibly related phenomenon — increasing threats of harm against reporters — for the nation’s declining status. Report: U.S. declines again in press-freedom index, falls to ‘problematic’ status 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z On many occasions during the years before our independence was declared 236 years ago, Adams had, no doubt, run similarly fiery meetings, honing his rhetorical skills, learning just how to set mobs into action. Museum Review: Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum Reopens With New Exhibits 2012-07-03T21:40:13Z The answer to that rhetorical question is of course no, but the details of how the system got this one wrong still manage to shock. Exonerated for a Murder They Didn’t Commit 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z And that there is one a them rhetorical questions. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z Considerable rhetorical energy was devoted during that earlier exhibition to convincing the audience and critics that cars deserved to be treated as art and displayed in an art museum. Review | Some cars are more seductive than art. Should they be included in art museums? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Massimo talks largely in abstractions and poses annoying rhetorical questions like: “What is a wall? What is a ceiling?” Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z They act as an unofficial narrator in chief, laying down fresh rhetorical markers alongside the familiar signposts of the American story. Lessons Taught: Obama’s Legacy as a Historian 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Mark Antony's famous "Friends, Romans, countrymen" speech has long been admired as a masterpiece of rhetorical irony, but it's not particularly subtle. A high-style, intermittently substantive 'Caesar' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z That sounds, perhaps, like it reduces it to just another rhetorical trick, but it’s one that is at least committed to the noncommittal. Jonathan Lethem on his new mega-literary, meta-literary collection 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Alas, my rhetorical skills failed me; so I finally gave up on my friend and headed back to the dorm room where the festivities were being held. The orgy that changed my life 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z On the raging "Burning Hand," Elias Bender Ronnenfelt loses his throat asking pointed rhetorical questions with such aplomb. Review: Iceage prove their worth on sophomore CD 2013-02-19T18:56:08Z Another part of Dean’s success was his ability to rally support, both financial and rhetorical, online, in a way that no presidential candidate had done before. ‘I don’t blame the scream speech’: Howard Dean on the first Internet campaign 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Same thing with the sarcastic rhetorical question — “Seriously?” | 'Date Night': Tina Fey and Steve Carell Star in a New Comedy 2010-04-09T00:55:00Z Twice in just a few hours Saturday, President Trump and his representatives offered textbook examples of the fog-making rhetorical response known as the non-denial denial. Ask the Trump White House for comment and you might get a non-denial denial 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Mr de Villepin’s words combined “seductive masculinity and rhetorical verve” in the best tradition of French public oratory and linguistic elegance. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Prince announced his decision through a series of tweets, with one written to mimic Donald Trump’s rhetorical style: Artists Mobilize in the Face of Donald Trump's Presidency 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z This is the rhetorical strategy that was employed by Fox Sports 1’s Nick Wright, whose tweet about the Trump rally Le Batard used as a jumping-off point for his comments. ESPN, Dan Le Batard, and the Refusal to Ignore Politics 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The question is not rhetorical, and I’m relieved to report that the answer is no. Review: ‘Wonder Woman’ Is a Blockbuster That Lets Itself Have Fun 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z You get people who have had a few drinks coming up to you and asking rhetorical questions like: "What have I seen you in?" John Hannah, actor – portrait of the artist 2013-04-30T13:52:23Z It is raspy, often hesitant, more conversational than rhetorical, and his quizzical eyes and fretful manner seem more suited to comedy than tragedy. Now Is the Rylance of Our Discontent 2013-11-27T10:45:21Z “Because the US Food and Drug Administration has been so slow to regulate these products in any meaningful way, the rhetorical differences between researchers hasn’t really played out in dramatic practical distinctions,” said Myers. E-cigarette bans highlight public health divide between US and UK researchers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Her sunny, measured tone surprised some reporters more accustomed to her rhetorical bomb-throwing. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s new reality 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z His rhetorical zest and throwaway, self-assured erudition were instantly apparent. Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z This way of framing things gained considerable rhetorical force when it was paired with populist themes. Why conservatives hate college 2013-03-31T22:00:00Z Now even that fragile rhetorical progress, which took years to build, is imperiled by the recklessness of the Trump agenda. Dakota Pipeline protests come to Wall Street: Native American activists hope to pressure big banks to back off 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z It does conclude with President Trump’s denigrations, which, Osborne stresses, are more than rhetorical. Training Tomorrow’s Newshounds 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z When you’ve seen something that often, it demands new reactions—and sometimes a new rhetorical palette. In Praise of Rudolph 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Key had unleashed all of his rhetorical weapons on Saturday; this was a case he believed in and had worked personally to bring before the Supreme Court. “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Indeed, the story of Epstein’s underworld is so sordid and shocking in the plain telling that some of Ransome’s rhetorical flourishes feel unnecessary, even distracting. She Survived a Tough Childhood. Then She Met Jeffrey Epstein. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z But it’s too much to demand rhetorical coherence at all times from someone who claims to be divinely inspired. Travails of the Smartest Celebrity: Kanye's New Song Leaks 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z To actually gain insight into the rhetorical gifts of the current president, along with the insipid ramblings the Republican nominee for president, Americans should turn to the written word. Communicator-in-chief: Where Obama’s rhetoric illuminated a complex world, Trump’s deceptive dialect dumbs down 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z There are no big speeches or rhetorical flourishes. Review: In ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ Oil, Fire and Greed 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Toobin says that this half-truth and falsehood, respectively, were a rhetorical success because “simplicity rarely loses to complexity in battles in the public square.” Why the Mueller Investigation Failed 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Even neighborhood arts organizations have gotten caught up in the rhetorical crossfire. How artists became capitalist 'foot soldiers' in the gentrification wars: Case study, Boyle Heights 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z In fact, this still represents the key rhetorical tool for most politicians when seeking to justify current mushrooming rates of inequality. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The Lord of the Rings is the most obvious predecessor to Martin’s work, and it’s not hard to find subtle rhetorical responses to Tolkien in his books. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z A raging Mailer does more to lose his own arguments than his opponents do to win them, but nonetheless, the brutal rhetorical uppercuts administered by everyone here make this a notorious moment in TV history. 'Have you no decency, sir?': Vidal v Buckley and the art of killer comebacks 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z While at one point the authors ask what an alternative would be “to this preservationist tendency, to the beginnings of the operatic museum,” it turns out that the question is wholly rhetorical. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z They're paper targets that the film can pepper with rhetorical buckshot. Why Hollywood keeps whitewashing the past 2011-08-12T15:20:00Z There are a few times when the biggest villain in this book is not the Riddler but the Straw Man, a rhetorical device of which Mr. Weldon can be overly fond. Review: ‘The Caped Crusade’ and Batman’s Reach Beyond — Gasp! — Comic Book Lore 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z This is not embroidery in the sense of trivial embellishment, but the delicate stitching of the syntax into various rhetorical patterns. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z It’s all a bit abstract and rhetorical, or it would be if this particular piece of cinema were not so visibly and palpably full of those qualities. ‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The politics of Ross’s film, though scattershot and rhetorical, are near-radical, and a radical aesthetic looms beneath the movie’s surface as well, whether a theatrical, Brechtian strain of teaching cinema or an extreme materialist historicism. The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “Why do you ask?” is a rhetorical question, but some people will respond with their reasons anyway; remember, if these were socially skilled people, your uterus wouldn’t be up for discussion in the first place. Carolyn Hax: Feeling besieged by questions about plans for having children 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z At the very end of "Agents of Chaos" you pose a rhetorical question aloud: how strong is our democracy? "There's no agreement on facts": Alex Gibney's look at Russian interference shows America's weakness 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Earlier, as a more marginal candidate, Gingrich often pleaded for his fellow contenders to refrain from criticizing each other while continuously poking the media and often indulging his sometimes wandering rhetorical attention span. All eyes to be on Gingrich at Iowa debate 2011-12-10T19:52:00Z "Will the night ever ripen/ to slice us in two?" seems to be the rhetorical question which invites a negative answer. Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z The irony of the contretemps surrounding Corbyn’s praise of irony is that, as prominent politicians go, humor is hardly his go-to rhetorical mode. The English Fetishization of Irony 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The editorial mentioned two unconfirmed incidents in upstate New York and offered a series of frightening rhetorical questions. When Halloween became America’s most dangerous holiday 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z There were rhetorical appeals and quotes — many cited thinkers like George Bernard Shaw, Robert Heinlein and Heinrich Heine, accurately or not. Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The actor, who had been lamenting his inability to eat undisturbed at Waffle House, replied with a deadpan rhetorical wrist slap: “That’s none of your business.” Reintroducing Sam Sanders 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z But of course it’s not rhetorical for your children and their answer is yes, they think you are stupid. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z There’s a fair amount of soliloquizing and rhetorical grandstanding, which is also true of Shakespeare, hip-hop and church. ‘High Flying Bird’ Review: A Thrilling Dunk on Capitalism 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Whatever the case, the word “groomer” seems to be part of a rhetorical shock campaign designed to end conversations, not to facilitate them. Perspective | Fans of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill have a new favorite word: ‘grooming’ 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Confused: Are you asking this as a rhetorical question? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Dear me! He learns his wife kept her old boyfriends’ love letters. 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z “The facts do not speak for themselves,” says Richard Buttny, a professor in the department of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University. How should we talk about what’s happening to our planet? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Some time ago, social game designer Holly Gramazio noticed its letters page features a lot of rhetorical questions. Internet picks of the week 2011-02-12T00:05:36Z In the words of the newly added phrase which is "used as a rhetorical expression of approval or satisfaction": what's not to like? Hockey moms and bromance pimp dictionary's definitions 2010-09-20T14:40:00Z Some speeches have the eyeballing moralism and rhetorical roll of the ex-preacher. Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z Their absence from the Royal Academy exhibition is no demerit, however, but an opportunity to survey a less obviously rhetorical vein of Mexican modernism. Mexican modernism and the politics of painting 2013-06-29T07:59:01Z This show represents the period when the rhetorical grandeur of Church’s earlier work was being criticized as passé compared with the noonday candor of emerging French Impressionists. ‘Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage’ Review: A Voyage Into the Past 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Purdom pauses, waiting for her audience to be hit by that rhetorical anvil. My Creation Museum quest: A skeptic’s genuine search for faith, science and humanity in a most unlikely place 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z And in doing so, we create arguments sometimes that aren’t rigorous and don’t make any sense and are full of straw men or other rhetorical fallacies. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z But it is less a revelation of argument than of rhetorical genius and academic valor. Feminist flamethrowers: Laura Kipnis, Camille Paglia and the modern sex wars 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z The awfulness of Verbinski’s is that he has something to say, but it’s of a stultifying banality, and he says it through a cinematic megaphone with a crude and tasteless rhetorical insistence. The Tasteless Intricacies of “A Cure for Wellness” 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z We will soon learn that this question is not rhetorical. A “final girl” who gets to get off: “The Witch” proves nothing’s scarier than an unapologetically liberated young woman 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z To me, it seemed like a reasonable bit of rhetorical balm, an exhortation to summon the better angels of our nature, but Oliver saw it as a sniveling, sanctimonious, hypocritical lie. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Mainstream media fawning over Biden? Hardly. 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z The rest of the singing, with the exception of the excellent chorus, was rough, Luisotti's conducting unyielding and rhetorical. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z As the film shows, what ensued in Miami, and then in Chicago, was a rhetorical knife fight. The Buckley vs. Vidal debates: The original knock-down, drag-out TV 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z There's a karaoke element to the performances, but of a deliciously experimental kind that accentuates the rhetorical rhythms and idiosyncrasies of the various speakers. When feminist debate turns into an ideological free-for-all: It's the Wooster Group's 'Town Hall Affair' 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Particularly cumbersome are his intermittent questions – he does a lot of wondering aloud – a rhetorical strategy that needlessly implies a level of naïveté than Mr. Jarecki’s strong, persuasive moviemaking finally demolishes. The Carpetbagger: Sundance Documentaries Transform Data Into Stories 2012-01-30T17:29:47Z At times, in my efforts to try to figure out what was awry, I lost the thread of this elegant rhetorical tapestry. Perspective | As live stages await their big comeback, theater on camera is getting better and better 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Perez’s analysis of the films is largely focussed not on classical tropes of rhetoric featured in Ford’s directorial method but on the deployment of rhetorical figures, within the context of the film, by Ford’s characters. A Tribute to My Teacher Gilberto Perez and His Eloquent Philosophy of Cinema 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z These scholars took seriously the ideas of the founding generation, unlike Progressive Era historians like Charles A. Beard, who had dismissed revolutionary ideas as rhetorical cover for the founders’ economic interests. Joyce Appleby, Historian of Capitalism and American Identity, Is Dead at 87 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z In apparent efforts to add rhetorical flourish to their rulings, judges have also often cited famous writers and humorists. Bob Dylan, 70 on Tuesday, oft-quoted in court 2011-05-24T04:42:05Z At 34, Wade has built up a large body of work, notable for its nuance and structure rather than its incendiary rhetorical flourishes. Laura Wade: return of the thugs 2012-05-16T17:30:01Z He hardly considered Labour party policy on Spain as policy at all, vacillating as it did between supporting ‘democracy’ on the one hand and the ‘Republic’ on the other: both positions entirely rhetorical. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Standing in front of a phalanx of deputies from his political party, he delivered a typically Macronian speech, flecked with irony, rhetorical flourish, and a certain steely self-regard. Will Scandal Sink Emmanuel Macron? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z This rhetorical mode risks locating some large part of a woman’s cultural worth in other people’s hatred of her—or at least making those things seem inextricable. When Women Signify Too Much 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z In rhetorical culture, the most important writing was au courant, and the “best” readers made use of it to enhance their own eloquence. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z That might seem a rhetorical question: The most obvious answer is that Olympians are in peak physical condition. Sexiest Olympics ever? 2012-07-29T01:00:00Z Mr. Castro had famously answered his own rhetorical question in 1961 about the rights of writers and artists: “Within the revolution, everything. Against the revolution, no rights at all.” Ricardo Porro, Exiled Cuban Architect, Dies at 89 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z But the film’s aversion to formal or rhetorical bombast as it discusses scientists’ hopes for a better future is its own balm. ‘Nuclear Now’ Review: Oliver Stone Makes the Case for Power Plants 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z It’s an untidy and mostly lackluster book, sad to say, one that buries her rhetorical gifts under several inches of mulch. In ‘White Beech,’ Germaine Greer Takes an Ecological Journey 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z And it offers dozens of possibilities in the current edition of its National Design Triennial, which comes with a title in the form of rhetorical question: “Why Design Now?” Art Review: Thinking Green ? Design Triennial at Cooper-Hewitt 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z Similarly, “Face of God” is back porch blues built around a high-minded rhetorical question: “Tell me how much more suffering/Before you see the eyes of God?” New Albums by Honeyblood, John Hiatt and the Fred Hersch Trio 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z If you want to see an expression of pure despair, ask a college freshman to parse Rachel Carson’s rhetorical choices at 8:00 in the morning. How to debate climate change deniers (without scaring them off) 2014-03-02T14:30:00Z A chapter of rhetorical dialogue about reclamation ethics comes from nowhere and goes nowhere, and the author’s conversations with his living relatives feel stifled, like something’s being held back. A Quest to Reclaim a Family Home Unearths a Past Buried by the Holocaust 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z In the world of public discourse, ad hominem is a means of attacking one's rhetorical opponent by questioning his or her reputation or expertise rather than sticking to the issue at hand. 10 Latin phrases people pretend to understand 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Still, a high-decibel audience inspired each player to reach remarkable rhetorical heights. A Chicago jazz wish list for the New Year 2011-01-03T14:53:00Z A more restless kind of writing, devoid of neatness, riddled with ambiguities and rhetorical flourishes. Theatremakers, don't be coy ? blog about your work 2011-02-18T15:29:17Z A second factor is the rhetorical function that opposition to liberal professors, cast as representatives of the knowledge elite, played for the emerging conservative movement. Why conservatives hate college 2013-03-31T22:00:00Z Trump railed about antifa and violence on the streets, while committing rhetorical violence, in effect demonstrating through his own misbehavior the very chaos he was holding up as a boogeyman to scare voters. Perspective | Think of the debate as a public park. The president was polluting it. 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Point number one… It’s fitting that his most effective rhetorical device in the speech was a “scoreboard”—more numbers—comparing Democratic and Republican economic records. The Morning After: Obama Turns to Bill Clinton, Explainer-in-Chief 2012-09-06T12:56:15Z This may sound like a rhetorical question, but I suggest you treat it as one you’d like them to answer. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When friends dismiss your problems, tell them where it hurts 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Flake is the first elected official to cross this particular rhetorical Rubicon, and he seems to be imploring his colleagues to follow. Senator Flake, a Republican, Explains Why He Didn’t Vote for Trump 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Pappano's exaggerated contrasts, fast and slow, very loud and very soft, as if trying to insert extra drama into a work that is already overloaded with rhetorical effects, didn't help. Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia/Antonio Pappano ? review 2011-03-20T17:55:00Z She also suggests that her husband’s accusers are not actually victims, posing the rhetorical question: “Who is the victim?” “Who is the victim?”: Camille Cosby and the “good wife” script 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Then he gets rolling, and his blend of showman’s bravado and rhetorical flair is a thing of beauty. What Michael Moore Understands About Hillary Clinton 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Indeed, literature is “the same as democracy and civilization,” he writes in a hyperbolic generalization that is typical of the book’s rhetorical pitch. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z There was an amused confidence that attracted his followers, along with his rhetorical genius and love for Black people. A New Life of Malcolm X Brimming With Detail, Insight and Feeling 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Attila, watching the mayor on TV in full rhetorical throttle, pronounces him a hypomaniac. When a Young Immigrant Vanishes in London, Can a Wildlife Biologist Help? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Her performance is wonderfully proportioned, though, never grandiose nor unnecessarily rhetorical, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra supplying perfectly scaled support. Brahms: Violin Concerto; String Sextet Op 36 ? review 2011-02-24T21:49:01Z This was not an exaggeration for rhetorical effect. Turning Sports Statistics Into Riveting Cinema 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Within this rhetorical framework, it is not necessary to prove that aliens have been discovered on Earth or that Ukrainians blew up a Ukrainian dam. The Paranoid Style in Tucker Carlson’s Home Office 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Walsh pops in from time to time to state the obvious and ask rhetorical questions. ‘Hunt With John Walsh’ Goes for Suspects Still at Large 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z It should be a cue for a range of serious answers, rather than remaining merely a rhetorical enquiry. Outrage is actually optimism: We’re mad because people should be better 2014-02-22T16:00:00Z The exception was the stately handling of the second movement, now popularly known as the music from The King's Speech, which unfolded with a rhetorical elegance whose gravity never threatened to become gravid. Hall?/Elder ? review 2012-02-12T15:11:38Z And yet the poem seems to answer, by a somewhat piqued rhetorical question, its subject’s request: Why haven’t you written my elegy? The Final Prophecy of W. S. Merwin 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z In its compressed, impressionistic syntax, the writing seems almost modern but for the rhetorical devices that enrich the argument and heighten emotion. Poem of the week: Bethsabe's Song by George Peele 2010-10-11T10:37:00Z Mr. James goes to these rhetorical lengths to support his central theme, which is that popular crime is deserving of serious attention. Books of The Times: Crunch the Numbers; Solve a Famous Murder 2011-06-02T21:24:11Z The Jamaican-born poet writes a learned, lofty, rhetorical kind of poetry, a little like Tennyson. The Best Books of Poetry from 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Is there anything different about the rhetorical structure of a joke in Hebrew and one in English, like where the punch line lands? Man Booker Winners Agree: Translating Jokes Is Hard 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z This is, of course, self-deprecatory rhetorical boilerplate in the time-honoured best actress nominee tradition. 'I hate romantic comedies' 2010-03-21T22:00:00Z Conversations in Perry’s plays and films are often choleric free-for-alls, with Madea as rhetorical judge and executioner, not the more intimate groupings of two or four combatants here. Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas: How Low Can You Go? 2013-12-13T20:39:26Z Despite the frequent rhetorical link made by politicians and activists between sex and violence in the media, when it comes to First Amendment exemptions, sex stands entirely on its own. Lara Croft battles male jerks 2012-06-14T16:15:00Z It may not have been much more than a rhetorical nudge, but this and numerous other remarks helped move the papacy away from his predecessor’s wounded, proprietary stance toward a secularizing Europe. Pope Benedict the liberal? 2013-02-12T20:02:00Z They work because they are efficient on the sentence level, cutting to the rhetorical nub without sacrificing their power to evoke. Essay Collections on Home, Culture and Everything in Between 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z That’s a rhetorical question – you don’t need to think about it. Michael Bay’s “apolitical” Benghazi movie: Every kind of American delusion and stupidity in one package! 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Gyllenhaal proved true to his word, offering the crowd only a single rhetorical question before handing off the microphone. Jake Gyllenhaal wants you to feel disturbed after watching him in ‘Nightcrawler’ If rock lyrics were not poetry, they were "writing," real writing, with "tropes and devices," "rhetorical strategies," "allusions and imagery." Dylan inducted as honorary member of arts academy 2013-05-16T22:40:10Z His diaries and autobiography, in fact, are his main claim to modest fame, for they reveal a superbly observant writer of sometimes highly rhetorical prose. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Immortal Evening’ by Stanley Plumly At the recent Democratic National Convention, you could still hear the absence of applause in the contours of certain speeches, where natural rhetorical gaps gave way to bluffs of expectant silence. Perspective | I miss live performances, but what I really miss is applause 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z It seems blithely unconcerned about being respected or winning awards, and the gravitas of Mr. Giamatti and Mr. Lewis are deployed like blunt instruments, the rhetorical equivalent of cave men beating each other with clubs. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 6: A Weird Couple of Days 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z She knows that “ ‘As if’ is pain’s rhetorical signature” and that metaphors are inadequate because pain is “under language.” ‘A Body, Undone’: A writer paralyzed in an accident dictates a powerful memoir 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z But these are just rhetorical rabbit holes you wouldn’t have fallen into, and betrayals you wouldn’t now have to fight your way past, had you merely taken her breakup for an answer. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Within a breakup, betrayals on both sides 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Somehow, when the old president reached one last time into his grab bag of grievance and rhetorical narcissism, there was nothing left of his power, not even the power of shock or disgust. Perspective | As Trump slips out of town, Biden repurposes old symbols for new life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Hence, too, the rhetorical authority of a man who believed himself inherently superior to all those around him. Enoch at 100 edited by Lord Howard of Rising – review 2012-07-12T07:09:21Z Like much of Gizzi’s work, the poem contains questions, most of them rhetorical, all of them searching. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z “Trump’s rhetorical commitments to infrastructure, while unfulfilled in terms of physical construction,” Smith wrote in his paper, “in fact underwrote a sea change in the legal mechanisms and policing capacities of the federal government.” The Trump Presidency Is History. They’re Writing the First Draft. 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z I found the sheer rhetorical emptiness of the events deeply dispiriting. Should graduation ceremonies be multi-faith? 2013-05-17T15:46:00Z Such a cynical reduction is more than just a rhetorical problem, as The New Jim Crow makes appallingly clear. Sharon Tate: Unwitting victims’ rights martyr 2013-04-02T20:02:00Z It’s the rhetorical use of philosophical questions like these that make the novel self-reflective. A Psychological Thriller Asks, Are We All a Little Stalker-ish? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Actually, the two of them supply a more vivid — if less comprehensible — zoological metaphor in the film’s funniest scene, a rhetorical sparring match in which lions battle tunas for animal-kingdom supremacy. | 'The Other Guys': Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Team Again for Laughs 2010-08-05T21:35:00Z He would issue the term with great rhetorical flourishes and hand waving. Beholder of Beauty 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z This is not a rhetorical way of saying “Don’t invite her.” Carolyn Hax: Should a toxic mother attend daughter’s wedding? 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The question was rhetorical but brought the director around to an oft-cited quotation, from William Faulkner: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ‘The Look of Silence’ changes the perspective on Indonesian genocide 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z I’m Single, Not an Alien: Is there a more contrived and idiotic party-construct than a “couple thing”? Not a rhetorical question. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Should a single try to burst her friends’ couple bubble? 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z To judge from the slides, flourishes and a rhetorical hesitation in the overture, it seems determined to be different at all costs. Apollo?s Singers ?Handel: Messiah? ? Review 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z From there, he started right into a talk that dispensed with the rhetorical flag burning in favor of passionate argument for a traditional liberal arts education. William Deresiewicz Tours the Colleges of ‘Excellent Sheep’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z In a series of rhetorical questions, some answered and some not, we got an explanation for why he wanted to go to war. The Walking Dead Watch: Too Far Gone 2013-12-02T10:14:40Z Otherwise, you’re engaging in a form of rhetorical narcissism and ideological self-preoccupation that has no consequence on the material conditions of actually existing poor people.” Hey, left wing: Quit griping! 2012-09-27T14:00:00Z At the rhetorical peak of his piece, Sorkin allowed for Hollywood’s “squabbling,” but put stock in the moral value of its work: We Can Handle the Truth 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Her meandering and overly voluble temporizing was a perfect rhetorical analogue to Tinguely’s mechanical circus. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z By which I mean that Veda is a rhetorical device, as my friend said, but she's also a character, one that seems horribly, at times pathetically human. A grand finale for "Mildred Pierce" 2011-04-11T13:01:00Z The Malick rhetorical questions and entreaties rarely cease on the soundtrack. Cannes: Malick's cosmic film debuts — at last — to boos, cheers 2011-05-16T14:17:20Z It’s probably that last question, which became a lot less rhetorical during the pandemic, that lends the play its poignancy. ‘Walden’ Review: Getting Away From It All 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z He seemed to appreciate that this was a rhetorical question, and did not venture a guess. I took my dead father to a Red Sox game 2013-03-09T15:00:00Z This language, that use of the drug was "accepted or tolerated" for enslaved peoples has a rhetorical purpose. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z But the rhetorical battle between Jimmy Carter’s sober “malaise” moment and Reagan’s relentless optimism settles strangely on Luverne, as many political speeches do to ordinary people. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 5: The Butcher of Luverne 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Mr Essig ends his entertaining study with a rhetorical question: “How much is a happy pig worth?” Nose-to-tail eating 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z As April is National Poetry Month, the challenges at this competition will involve verse, meter, rhythm, poetic forms and, according to an email from the company, “as many rhetorical devices as we can squeeze in.” 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The answer to his question was anything but rhetorical for those Americans to whom a $1,400 government stimulus check was a fiscal lifeline. Curtains Up for the One Percent 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Film heroes deliver the best taunts because their rhetorical skill is linked to their physical prowess. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z Instead, he used a jazzy rhythm and spoke quickly, in bursts of stammering digressions that mixed repurposed Yiddish with rhetorical turns of phrases that aimed for literary pleasures. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z He stopped just shy of calling the media outlets who reported contents of the hack “un-American” through the time-honored “I’m not saying, I’m just saying” rhetorical device. From “The Newsroom” to the NYT op-ed page: How Sorkin’s crusade against the media compares in fiction and in life 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Nor, by the way, despite Vanessa’s rhetorical flourish, do I think that Vanessa speaks for “all the fat girls” or Louie for “all the guys.” Louie Checks His Privilege 2014-05-13T13:45:49Z He may have been mocked by erudite commentators, who sniffed at his rhetorical tangents, his oversimplifications, his non sequiturs and his factual errors. The perilous high-wire act of writing speeches for Donald Trump 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z "Yellow Face" shifts abruptly into a more rhetorical key, when it ties the false accusations of colluding with China lodged against Hwang's father, and nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, to racism. David Henry Hwang's 'Yellow Face' a provocative sendup 2011-08-09T16:35:06Z And yet he has always managed, with startling rhetorical nerve, to define it as work. Now we await the floodwaters, this time with a peppering of pipes and carrots 2013-01-27T00:04:04Z These are rhetorical questions; anyone mildly familiar with American cultural history knows the dynamics at play here. Run-DMC, Aerosmith and the Song That Changed Everything 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z In other respects, though, I found “Otaku” wearying; conversations often feel stilted and unconvincing, more about scoring rhetorical points with the reader than inhabiting a believable character. Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Our power elites’ rhetorical police action becomes increasingly necessary as large swaths of the people lumped under the hipster taxon slip into the ranks of the long-term un- and underemployed. Enough with the hipster-bashing 2013-05-12T14:00:00Z Hermès and Craftsmanship The question was surely rhetorical. | Fashion Diary: Hermès and Craftsmanship 2012-09-06T21:37:44Z But isn’t there something insufferable about this tyranny of the verb to be, and the rhetorical recourse, always, to reversal or paradox? The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z I'm not being rhetorical, since Paris Hilton's brand image extends far beyond this one flop. Paris Hilton's reality show may tank, but she won't 2011-06-07T20:08:00Z In it, he posed a question that was both rhetorical and piercingly immediate: “What is the function, the possibilities, of a writer living under this rumbling volcano?” A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Jackson has a habit of italicizing in rage a single word that makes Lear’s anger more rhetorical than believable. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z It's also when everything is accomplished, but that's merely rhetorical when fear keeps you back. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Husband with a new daughter struggles to ‘relate to a girl’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z But in the end it was Mr. Evans’s rhetorical skills that won over the band’s managers. Hugh Evans, 29, Force Behind Global Festival on Great Lawn 2012-08-22T22:01:04Z Eight years after his own presidential bid failed, Giuliani has emerged as Donald Trump’s unflinching chief apologist, cheerleader and rhetorical Rottweiler, even as GOP leaders far and wide abandon their party’s candidate. What happened to ‘America’s Mayor’? How Rudy Giuliani became Trump’s attack dog. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But she is so distressed by the situation that they are hardly jokes at all, more a series of heartfelt, rhetorical questions. How Edinburgh standups are dealing with the riots 2011-08-10T19:00:02Z “In reality I was a kind of rhetorical handyman, keeping our stump speech up to code.” David Litt, an Obama Speechwriter Who Wants No Credit 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z His words are an exhortatory public poetry with the expected rhetorical flourishes. Music Review: Andrew Lippa's ‘I Am Harvey Milk’ 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Even though O. Henry revels in puns and wordplay, period slang and colorful rhetorical exaggeration, he keeps his narrative voice intimate and confiding. Review | Why O. Henry is so much more than those short stories you had to read in school 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Some former White House press secretaries find the rhetorical tone to be a bit unusual. What kind of White House press secretary calls her boss’s critics human scum? Stephanie Grisham. 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z At the end of "Mont Blanc", framing that final rhetorical question about meaning, he evokes a chilling kind of hell. Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2013-03-11T13:41:42Z At rallies, he delivered impassioned speeches that caught the attention of the local press, which praised his rhetorical flair. A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Self-rule and local authority — rhetorical wrapping for this will to power — had become articles of faith, fervid as any religious belief. When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Stewart asked, though it was more or a rhetorical comment about how ludicrous sexism is. Kirsten Gillibrand’s interview with Jon Stewart is inspiring and refreshing 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z When asked by Penn whether he feels responsible for the drug dependency suffered by his customers, Guzmán gave a rhetorical shrug. Sean Penn on El Chapo interview: 'I have a terrible regret' 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z While this fear of Catholics was mostly rhetorical in nature, there were a few moments of violence. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context has been done for centuries 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z There were lots of rhetorical questions and lovely turns of phrase, but Saul always seemed to be hearing a hard and fast “no” that Jivadi wasn’t actually conveying. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 8: The Never-Ending Trials of Quinn 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z At first, the question seemed rhetorical. He leaned in toward Elijah’s open window to get a better look at the four of us. Checkpoint, U.S.A.: Crossing the border into Trump’s America 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z For ages 3-6: The picture book asks rhetorical questions about beginnings: “Does a cake remember it was once grain? Does a statue remember it was once stone?” Wine to the max, Puget Sound history, a kid who ‘can’ 2014-01-06T21:30:20Z Price asked but not in a rhetorical sense — he actually sounded kind of excited by the prospect. IMS Engage: Chuck D, Seth Troxler and Kaskade on the state of EDM 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Yet for all the rhetorical flourish, Mr Burgis fails to explain why some states with bountiful natural resources manage them in ways that deepen democratic institutions and benefit the poor. Blood earth 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z As if to answer his own rhetorical question, what follows is an improvised cadenza on electric bass, both dazzling and no big deal. New Music: Albums From Thundercat and Buika 2013-06-10T21:43:39Z And while that certainly sounds like a rebuttal, I suspect in this case the term is rhetorical. “Shut Up and Dribble” hits its shot: A powerful rebuttal to Laura Ingraham — and so much more 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z "Neither of those rhetorical points are representative of what the law is." "Hurt Locker's" illegal downloading wars 2010-06-03T21:20:00Z But the show consistently took the roundabout way of getting to fairly obvious rhetorical or story points, so much so that Dolores taking up arms felt tinged with retroactive annoyance. Westworld's Finale Raises the Bar But Doesn't Quite Clear It 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z In a darkly comic scene that is the rhetorical heart of the book, Maureen goes into a church to confess her crime and winds up getting into an argument with the priest over Catholic hypocrisy. ‘The Glorious Heresies’: A nasty world of faith and vice in 21st-century Ireland 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z I presume the article title is just rhetorical. To Find Cheap Flights, the Day (Kind of) Matters 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Though Don’s lament pushes back against prejudices regarding cultural identity, the moviet also suggests that the answer to his rhetorical question is “a person,” a trait-free person, and that this is quite enough. “Green Book,” Reviewed: Peter Farrelly’s Bland, Regressive Flip on “Driving Miss Daisy” 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z But that single side is riven with rhetorical complexity. Review | If you imagined South Africa’s racial struggles ended with Mandela, think again. 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The answer to that rhetorical question, whether you are human or a Muppet, is, of course, both. | 'The Muppets': ?The Muppets,? With Jason Segel and Amy Adams - Review 2011-11-22T13:00:00Z “Painting has to do with, in a sense, connections, doesn’t it?” he once ventured, as if delivering a rhetorical question in the midst of a soliloquy. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The photographs of Seattle’s old movie palaces are magnificent, and so is some of the rhetorical fanfare over their arrival on the scene. Seattle moviemaking, movie-watching, past and present 2013-01-07T21:10:32Z By the time the 1976 exploitation flick Who Can Kill A Child? hit the screen, its titular question seemed rhetorical —who wouldn't kill a child the way things were going? Mama: why cinema loves a creepy kid 2013-02-23T06:00:01Z The death of Eric Garner presented a rhetorical challenge: we’ve all seen the video of Garner’s confrontation with the police– he clearly posed no threat and complied with the officers’ requests. The vile right-wing response to Garner’s death: Blame Bloomberg and NYC’s cigarette tax 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z The invention that disrupted this rhetorical world was the canon. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The blame-free method could work very well to convince auto workers, coal miners, and the fat cats of the business world that we must act on climate change, so it’s an important rhetorical strategy. How to debate climate change deniers (without scaring them off) 2014-03-02T14:30:00Z A writer gets trapped in the rhetorical mesh of her origins and themes. The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z After one narrative detour, Kilmer recognizes the digression with a rhetorical question: “Where were we?” Review | Val Kilmer’s ‘I’m Your Huckleberry’ offers a scatterbrained journey into his idiosyncratic head space 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z This is a rhetorical question, but I just want readers to understand this, very clearly. Bernie Sanders meets Spike Lee: ‘Where do we go? Where is the hope?’ 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z “The 1930s” is not so much a label for a period of time than it is rhetorical shorthand – a two-word warning from history. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z This year's Doomsday Clock — a rhetorical device for sparking conversation about humanity’s proximity to self-destruction — remains set at 100 seconds until midnight, as it has been for the past two years. Doomsday Clock 2022: What is it and what do the numbers mean? 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z I also watched the trailer for Kevin Can Wait in preparation for this rhetorical exercise. Kevin Can Wait: is Kevin James an acting genius or a one-trick pony? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z These are the urgent rhetorical questions that loom over Alexander's narrative: "Lost implies we are looking, he might be found," she writes, "I lost my husband. Where is he I often wonder?" In her new memoir, Elizabeth Alexander deals with loss of her spouse 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z What I find really striking about this play is how you contrast the sort of lofty legalistic and rhetorical language in the Constitution with the messy realities of women's lives. We treat the Constitution like a religious text, with women’s bodies on the line 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z To say that “natural born citizen” is settled law is nothing more than a rhetorical ploy. Ted Cruz has a very real birther problem: The law is not settled — but the history is 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z It’s a dizzying rhetorical style, and succeeds only in knocking out straw men. Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Muslim Men and Western Women 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z First of all, I think all questions are more or less rhetorical questions. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z This afternoon, there is none of what Labour’s Tom Watson calls “the brilliantly rhetorical speeches”. Mark Serwotka: ‘I read on Twitter eight weeks ago that I was dead’ 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z “Is veganism no more than a capitalist lifestyle choice?” ran a rhetorical question on the Red Black Green blog. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Acting like an old vaudeville pro, she adds, “It’s a rhetorical question.” ‘Ruthless!’ sings but ‘Zombie Prom’ is D.O.A. 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z But they complain that he’s guilty of the same rhetorical excesses he charges them with. Can plastic bags save the planet? 2012-09-13T20:03:00Z Bond's gadgeteer, Q, radios in, and Bond delivers the rhetorical goods: "I showed him your watch. It blew his mind." The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z So the fact that, lamentably, some people sincerely believe in Scientology and consider it a religion, even if the British state does not, doesn't give Scientologists the right to be treated with rhetorical kid gloves. If Britain decides to ban the burqa I might just start wearing one 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z Irony was a rhetorical device first used by the ancient Greeks and is in full flow in the modern country: Omonia means "concord". As rich Greeks keep their heads down, hospital staff heroically battle the odds 2012-06-16T08:59:01Z It has murdered language as a useful rhetorical tool in our election. A tale of two populisms: Do you want to live in Donald Trump’s New York or Bob Dylan’s America? 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is also a magician who uses rhetorical evasion, doublespeak and sleight of hand to work his public and the news media. Donald Trump must go full Wrestlemania: Winning in New Hampshire means going more ridiculous, more over the top 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Over the years, some critics took Miss King’s writing to task not for its ideology — the ideology, it was widely understood, went hand in glove with the work — but for its rhetorical excesses. Florence King, Writer Who Wielded an Acerbic Wit, Dies at 80 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Trump isn’t unique in this, said Dana L. Cloud, a communication and rhetorical studies professor at Syracuse University. Ask the Trump White House for comment and you might get a non-denial denial 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Yeah, you're right -- it's a rhetorical question and not a very bright one, and you're also right that what I'm really doing is trolling for responses from female readers. "Grown Ups": It's time to kill the midlife dude flick 2010-06-25T00:23:00Z But right now, this emphasis on looking remains somewhat rhetorical in congested or ill-assorted galleries where you can't properly see all the art on display. Walk Through British Art – review 2013-05-18T14:59:01Z Walk the corridors of this museum, and the work of Rubens is so overwhelming in its rhetorical impact that for all of its many delights it can also feel oppressive. Review | A Rubens exhibition asks: Are first thoughts best? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z She wasn’t with me at “Red Eye,” but her voice echoed in my mind with that rhetorical question. Early-’60s Absurdism in ‘Red Eye of Love’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z He was especially impressive in that first cantata, where he added power to power in the aria “Great lord, O mighty king,” supplying vivid ornamentation and giving full weight to the rhetorical grandeur. Music Review: Christmas Oratorio at St. Paul’s Chapel 2013-01-06T22:28:27Z There's an almost witty little rhetorical flourish in the last 2 lines: "Surely, your sweet and wondrous love/ Shall measure all my days,/ And, as it never shall remove,/ So neither shall my praise." Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z Sometimes, the phrases are like run-on sentences; elsewhere, they are poetic, rhetorical, filled with pauses and hesitations. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Here they were, as one website, Wronging Rights, put it in a widely repeated criticism, "taking up rhetorical space that could be used to develop more intelligent advocacy". Jason Russell: Kony2012 and the fight for truth 2013-03-03T00:05:34Z A decade before the Civil Rights Act became law, the ruling offered “a powerful rhetorical and moral weapon that helped to catalyze the nation toward the goal of racial equality.” The Power of the Supreme Court Inside America’s Schools 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The inclusion of this well-known American spiritual is another surprising addition to the unruly texture of “The Silver Tassie,” which shifts in rhetorical register from scene to scene and sometimes from line to line. | 'The Silver Tassie': War Changes a Man, and a Play 2011-07-27T22:15:20Z Her mission is to teach women how to employ a dominatrix’s rhetorical tools in any scenario when there’s a power imbalance with a man, whether or not it’s about sex. Here’s How to Deal With Men (Thwack!) 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z In the context of the impending strike, the question was less rhetorical than it was a threat. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Harrower's speech is full of questions – about the press and politicians – that may be rhetorical but could be answered. Public Enemy; These Shining Lives; The Hothouse – review 2013-05-18T23:07:16Z But I suspect that for Baldwin it is, in part, a rhetorical move, a grim cadence on which to end a paragraph. Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z It happens to be one of the president’s favorite rhetorical moves. Perspective | The Trump-Ukraine ‘transcript’ is the latest manual for abusing power and saying you didn’t 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z It initially seems like an invitation for Don to reprise the rhetorical greatness of seasons past and point the way forward after a convulsive decade of battle in matters business, marital and literal. 'Mad Men' Recap: Don Draper's Gettysburg Address 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z An episode titled “Sugar Babies” begins with a Bradshavian rhetorical question: “As the slutty feminist that I am, I can’t help but wonder: Is being a sugar baby the world’s greatest life hack?” The Ennobling Smut of Gregg Araki’s “Now Apocalypse” 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z So maybe this was a rhetorical quandary - but the parent who wrote me made me think about it differently. Motherlode Blog: Should You Check for Internet Access Before a Play Date? 2013-01-18T21:19:43Z Swisher responded with a rhetorical question: “Why do any of them talk to me?” How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z But Morland keeps her rhetorical register so high that her narrative just about holds together as she rackets round the world in search of bravehearts. The Society of Timid Souls by Polly Morland – review 2013-07-12T09:00:01Z Alsop’s stately, more conventionally beautiful approach offered an incongruous backdrop to Zukerman’s leaner, more rhetorical interpretation. A reshuffled Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can’t quite fill the void after headliner’s exit His rhetorical strategy is not to debate the content of old books but to appeal to people’s self-interest. Review | The key to a more tranquil mind? One author argues it’s all about revisiting books from the past. 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z This is not a rhetorical question but rather an expression of genuine puzzlement occasioned by “Something Borrowed,” a well-meaning comedy of marriage that seems ardently committed to the blandness of its characters. | 'Something Borrowed': New Lovers and the Old Triangle 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z Trump’s frequent attempts at spin are part of a larger rhetorical strategy, wrote Jennifer Mercieca, an associate professor of communication at Texas A&M University, in a column for The Washington Post in April. ‘Tear gas’ or ‘pepper balls’? In response to assault on White House protesters, Trump harps on the semantics. 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z But his question is rhetorical: we know exactly who he is. Cannes 2014 review: Welcome to New York - Depardieu's grunting triumph exposes more than just himself 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z This Jekyll-and-Hyde division makes sense as a rhetorical device, a way of talking about the good that can be acknowledged in people and the evil that must be deplored in them. ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ (Among Others.) 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z That voice, and the sophisticated rhetorical ear that supplies it with material, are Ms. Hayes’s strongest assets. Art Review: Sharon Hayes Solo Show at the Whitney 2012-06-28T22:07:34Z The performance may have called attention to itself with rhetorical and gestural flourishes that seemed more technical than emotional. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Written by Punzo, made rhetorical by Arena, who speaks his lines with a mixture of mockery and defiance, across a range of facial expression that excites as much as it discomforts. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z “Why did they make another Shrek movie?” one of my children asked me as we bought tickets to see it, and I suspect it was at least partly a rhetorical question. Film: An Old Pairing: Summer and Movie Sequels 2010-06-11T04:28:00Z But they are exposing their followers to a loathsome rhetorical tactic based on the dehumanization of gay people. Perspective | Fans of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill have a new favorite word: ‘grooming’ 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z When a sentence jumps all of the rhetorical hurdles that life and our saturated minds place along the way to reach sublimity, I become moved to near tears. Chigozie Obioma: By the Book 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z This reader’s response to that rhetorical question is: It’s the memoirist’s job to figure out those basic questions, and then write us your considered answers. The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The question might seem rhetorical to the jaded or cynical, but it is still a reasonable question to ask. I've got chronic prize fatigue 2010-10-09T10:00:00Z It was a delicate rhetorical dance: Have compassion for some, be afraid of others. Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ speech shocked voters five years ago — but some feel it was prescient 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z There are no showy gestures, simply the quiet, intricate stabbing and looping of that rhetorical needle, and perhaps the glint of a melancholy smile. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z The novel achieves a kind of happy ending, though more rhetorical than dramatic. A Lakeside Family Vacation Goes Awry in This Debut Novel 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z But anyone telling this kind of story now might be supplying rhetorical ammo to people who dream of making America smaller, meaner, more homogeneous and more afraid. ‘24: Legacy,’ Scripted From Trump’s Dire Islamophobia 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z She tucks rhetorical minitutorials into "Ruined," as political context and spurs to action. Review: 'Ruined' is an intimate glimpse into a war-torn nation's women and warriors 2010-07-12T23:42:00Z Hate speech is a key ingredient of the fascist dictator’s rhetorical mix, as Arendt might put it, but far from the only one. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z For politicians searching for heartstrings to tug, this is a logical rhetorical strategy, appealing to voters’ instincts to protect their kin. The dystopian future is already underway in Maja Lunde's novel 'The History of Bees' 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The second section, “Cinematic Tropes,” extensively considers the use of rhetorical analysis in literary theory. A Tribute to My Teacher Gilberto Perez and His Eloquent Philosophy of Cinema 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The reverend’s rising rhetorical cadence and call-and-response with his congregation is a natural fit for opera and Mr. Glass’s music in these scenes is the most successful. Review: ‘Appomattox’ at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The one upmarket requirement for mythological movies is that they add a tincture of rhetorical elevation to the dominant earthy elements. Immortals: Crash, Bash and Flash of the Titans 2011-11-11T10:00:47Z I believed my argument was strong, full of rhetorical power. Modern Love: Chained to the Hearth or Warmed by It? 2013-09-05T23:01:20Z Aside from a few rhetorical flourishes, the prose is refined, intense, and poetically physical. Andrés Neuman crosses boundaries across the Americas in 'How to Travel Without Seeing' 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z That’s not a rhetorical question; my advice for you is to answer it. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The ‘dream job’ vs. the most important job in the world — parenting 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z |
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