Definition of Rhetorical

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Definition of Rhetorical
	Rhetorical Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. Related Definitions: According, Art, As, Exhibiting, Flourish, Of, Or, Oratorical, Pertaining, Rhetoric, Rhetorical, The, To, Treatise

Rhetorical Quotations

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
Stephen Jay Gould

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?
Bo Bennett

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.
Leo Ornstein

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
Walter Pater

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
Brent Scowcroft

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.
Pat Sajak

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
Hugh Sidey

Rhetorical Translations

rhetorical in German is rhetorisch, phrasenhaft
rhetorical in Latin is rhetoricus
rhetorical in Swedish is retorisk

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