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All candidates lie -- in a technical sense -- every time they read a speech they paid someone else to write, every time they gush over how thrilled they are to be among the real people outside the Beltway, and every time they feign modesty after a particularly effusive introduction. But the...
:Aspects of Poetry, Language and Rhetorical Violence, English 146 Astronomy 14
At a World War II training base of Britain's Royal Marines, the commanding officer ends his tirade against officers who had seen to their own comfort before that of their men with a purely rhetorical "Any questions?" One moderately adipose and overage (36) lieutenant does have an inquiry. "Would...
While the world was recoiling in shock from the visible inhumanity, Western reaction was more rhetorical than real. Under pressure to do something -- anything -- the U.N. Security Council passed a vague resolution that provided for "all measures necessary" to ensure delivery of relief supplies. Observers could be forgiven if they...
Good intentions do sometimes go awry, in helping the poor as in any other human endeavor. Go see the current movie of E.M. Forster's Howards End -- or read the novel -- for an exploration of that theme. But the reflexive crediting of "good intentions" has become a standard throat-clearing...