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Liberals and radicals have their rhetorical questions also. Is it fair to ask the poor, who presumably will be attracted to a volunteer army, to fight our wars? Shouldn't there be some feeling of community, a desire to distribute, if not death, then the likelihood of death, among all...
The gathering was a happening and not a lecture: "have you ever looked at a tree?" Krishnamurti asked and inquisitive truth-seeker. All his questions were rhetorical and it was embarrassing when people broke in to answer them.
Playwright Friel never stopwatches a line, and he has a rhetorical tic. Talk may be the crust of drama, but it can never be the core.
For months, with all the rhetorical flourishes at his command, Everett Dirksen had trumpeted his implacable opposition to the Administration's 1966 civil rights bill. Even so, when Dirksen was ushered into the President's oval office last week, Lyndon Johnson clapped a hand on his shoulder and...
This being so, one of the tasks facing a director is to see that the legitimately rhetorical is not allowed to burgeon (or "escalate," to use up-to-date terminology) into the bombastic. It is all too easy for Julius Caesar, in performance, to turn into one long shouting match...