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Officials said they would like the Turks, who support the Palestinian bid, to lower tensions with Israel by toning down what has been sharp rhetori c in recent weeks.
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He will DISCOUNT Obama once again in self-serving rhetori disguised as a support speech.
Clinton Role-Playing at the Convention - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Since any art must acquire knowledge of the object of its concern — for without this it is no art or technē but a mere empirical routine (270b) — the true rhetori - cian must acquire a thorough knowledge of human psychology.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas G. M. A. GRUBE 1968
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It is significant too that many of the humanists who led the revival of antiquity were not professional philosophers or theologians in the tradition of the medieval schools, but poets, politicians, and rhetori - cians with little commitment to systematic philo - sophical thought.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JERROLD E. SEIGEL 1968
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In the early eighteenth century, the omnipresence of French and English satiric literature brought the idea of irony, so called, out of the classroom into the intellectual marketplace; during the intervening twenty centuries it lived in, or on the edge of, rhetori - cal theory, the two chief fountains of which were
IRONY NORMAN D. KNOX 1968
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His succinct exposition of the rhetori - cal function of the Stoic virtues in De inventione con - stituted a principal source for medieval definitions of the canon; adaptations and commentaries on this brief text (and on the corresponding passage in the nearly contemporaneous Rhetorica ad Herennium) had enor - mous impact on the Latin West.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968
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"I'm not naming any names, but some of the rhetori ..."
Boing Boing 2008
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Then there was also on Tuesday, who has an insightful essay on religious minorities in Iran (despite the virulent anti-Simetic rhetori spouted by the country's leaders, it has a huge Jewish population, for example).
State of the Art 2008
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