Word: rhetoricall
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
But the military planners and political leaders in the Kremlin will never proceed on that assumption, nor can they. They want to feel confident that deterrence works the other way and that they could retaliate effectively against an American attack on them. There is no room in the concept of...
The latest charges have further increased the rhetorical temperature in Central America. Defense Minister Ortega warned darkly last week of "the possibility of war" with neighboring Honduras, which he accused of aiding the rebels. Nicaragua also charged that Honduran troops had briefly entered Nicaraguan territory, an accusation that the Hondurans...
If there was ever a time when the French looked for a display of leadership, it was last week as President Francois Mitterrand addressed the country to explain the painful consequences of the French franc's third devaluation in 22 months of Socialist government. Speaking on nationwide television, Mitterrand...
That perception may be overdrawn: the shift is far more noticeable in oratory than in the substance of policy. But on the rhetorical level it is fully deliberate. White House advisers fear that the Administration is losing the consensus for a rapid U.S. military buildup that President Reagan had created...
In the late 1970s, Koestler postulated that death does not signify total extinction. "It means merging into the cosmic consciousness," he wrote in an essay on life after death, comparing the process of dying to "the flow of a river into the ocean." Summoning the rhetorical powers of his youth...