“By the mid-1990s, such persuasive rhetoric flowed from a political elite that had reached a consensus in favor of market policies.”

“From this perspective, Ovidian rhetoric works to conceal the very desire that organizes it.”

“Hence the rhetorician who wants to persuade by arguments or proofs can adapt most of the dialectical equipment.”

“Coupland the slaphappy rhetorician, drunk on throwaway tropes and instant epigrams, puts Coupland the pop sociologist in the shade.”

“The rhetorician succeeds fairly well for his matter, when he discovers that all oratory debates generally boil down to a few determined problems.”

“This act of reassemblage disrupts rhetoricity until we feel the selvedges of the language-textile give way.”

“Tele-presence reduces fully acted out rhetoric into mere rhetoricity, easily dismissible in an era when people are information-weary and image-numb.”

“The rhetor, for instance, would not imagine that he was clearing out a space in which he could express his thoughts and feelings.”

“The rhetor could suggest a contradiction between these values and sexism and argue that sexism must be abandoned.”

“Augustine of Hippo, perhaps the greatest of all theologians, was a trained rhetor who had served his time at the imperial court.”

“If rhetoricians are the approved practitioners of rhetoric, they can expand their territory by an expansive definition.”

“By contrast, the new abolitionist calls are being issued primarily by rhetoricians in the field who consider, in Young's words, art as grammar.”

“Such work is likely to be outside the home unit's understanding of rhetoric, which will require educating colleagues who are not rhetoricians.”

“Traditional and cognitive rhetorics differ most markedly in their approach to metaphor, metonymy, and other figures.”

“Also those who consider themselves as having no prospect for the future are most easily tempted by the extremist rhetorics.”

“Even though this is just rhetorics, the Conservative government likes to talk about open federalism.”

“Mark harnesses the advice of these ancient rhetors on the use of example in persuasive speech-making and uses their techniques in his narrative.”

“Eulogies instead tend to be set pieces, delivered by commissioned rhetors, who do not know the deceased well, if at all.”

“None of these thinkers, however, would argue that rhetors do not produce effects.”