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Definition of rhetorically in English: rhetoricallyadverb rɪˈtɒrɪklirəˈtɔrək(ə)li 1In terms of rhetoric or speech intended to impress or persuade. in the modern world, everyone rhetorically embraces democracy sentence adverb we will continue to fight an uphill battle, rhetorically speaking, against extremists Example sentencesExamples - Knowledge rhetorically induced from a representative anecdote will ironically contain both of Ransom's two knowledges.
- The preface, to be sure, shows a perhaps rhetorically prudent ambivalence towards the use of humour in polemic.
- Each of the elements he names demands a communicative, rhetorically performed reciprocity that today's electronic media make almost unthinkable.
- Many of these arguments from the early 1980s now appear rhetorically overextended, with too many unsubstantiated leaps across discursive spans.
- Rhetorically, he often proposed that modern architecture be regionally specific rather than globally uniform.
- For him, all artistic devices perform some function, and all artistic devices are therefore rhetorically motivated.
- He and his writers are very intelligent, and seem to know just how to rhetorically back people into logical corners.
- He understood what the significance of an assimilation of Dewey to Freud might hold rhetorically within the realm of American cultural politics.
- Unmediated devices are motivated rhetorically, while mediated devices are motivated both rhetorically and referentially.
- Most composers from Bach on play the double game of creating arresting individual variations and a rhetorically dramatic whole.
2(with reference to a question) with the aim of producing an effect or making a statement rather than eliciting information. ‘Did you really think I would just go away?’ he asked rhetorically Example sentencesExamples - The letter asked rhetorically, "Can there be legal rape?"
- The professor rhetorically asked, "Does the redemptive-historical school regard his appeal to be 'atomistic' and moralistic?"
- He asks rhetorically, "How do I teach a kid in journalism to go after the truth and teach a kid in public relations how to lie?"
- As the newspaper recently asked rhetorically, "If they cited non-existent threats just to get a hold of the petroleum there, what won't they do to appropriate ours?"
- One senior advisor asked, rhetorically, if illiterate farmers would vote for the information superhighway.
- Sensing victory, she scolds rhetorically: "Are not feet that are unable to stand a person on her own truly wasted?"
- He rhetorically asked, "What's next?"
- "Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new truth to be discovered by a new majority tomorrow?" the future pope asked rhetorically in a 1996 interview.
- When you ask (rhetorically) whether an ignorant person can have a deep insight, I think you betray your attitude.
- "Who can doubt now," he asks rhetorically, "that they were right to denounce the idea of religion based on human sacrifice?"
Definition of rhetorically in US English: rhetoricallyadverbrəˈtôrək(ə)lērəˈtɔrək(ə)li 1In terms of rhetoric or speech intended to impress or persuade. in the modern world, everyone rhetorically embraces democracy sentence adverb we will continue to fight an uphill battle, rhetorically speaking, against extremists Example sentencesExamples - Rhetorically, he often proposed that modern architecture be regionally specific rather than globally uniform.
- Each of the elements he names demands a communicative, rhetorically performed reciprocity that today's electronic media make almost unthinkable.
- The preface, to be sure, shows a perhaps rhetorically prudent ambivalence towards the use of humour in polemic.
- Knowledge rhetorically induced from a representative anecdote will ironically contain both of Ransom's two knowledges.
- Most composers from Bach on play the double game of creating arresting individual variations and a rhetorically dramatic whole.
- He understood what the significance of an assimilation of Dewey to Freud might hold rhetorically within the realm of American cultural politics.
- For him, all artistic devices perform some function, and all artistic devices are therefore rhetorically motivated.
- Many of these arguments from the early 1980s now appear rhetorically overextended, with too many unsubstantiated leaps across discursive spans.
- Unmediated devices are motivated rhetorically, while mediated devices are motivated both rhetorically and referentially.
- He and his writers are very intelligent, and seem to know just how to rhetorically back people into logical corners.
2(with reference to a question) with the aim of producing an effect or making a statement rather than eliciting information. "Did you really think I would just go away?" he asked rhetorically Example sentencesExamples - "Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new truth to be discovered by a new majority tomorrow?" the future pope asked rhetorically in a 1996 interview.
- "Who can doubt now," he asks rhetorically, "that they were right to denounce the idea of religion based on human sacrifice?"
- Sensing victory, she scolds rhetorically: "Are not feet that are unable to stand a person on her own truly wasted?"
- He rhetorically asked, "What's next?"
- As the newspaper recently asked rhetorically, "If they cited non-existent threats just to get a hold of the petroleum there, what won't they do to appropriate ours?"
- One senior advisor asked, rhetorically, if illiterate farmers would vote for the information superhighway.
- The professor rhetorically asked, "Does the redemptive-historical school regard his appeal to be 'atomistic' and moralistic?"
- When you ask (rhetorically) whether an ignorant person can have a deep insight, I think you betray your attitude.
- The letter asked rhetorically, "Can there be legal rape?"
- He asks rhetorically, "How do I teach a kid in journalism to go after the truth and teach a kid in public relations how to lie?"
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