rhetorician's

Ken Fallin One answer -- offered by students of talk from Aristotle through Alfred North Whitehead -- is obvious: The purpose of the rhetorician's art is to persuade.

Obama and the Speech 2009

After the reader has assented to the truism that litigators are a generally shifty and unpleasant crowd, the meaning of the phrase can segue to the narrower category actually in the anti-tort rhetorician's crosshairs: litigators who represent plaintiffs.

Tort "Reform" 2 2007

After the reader has assented to the truism that litigators are a generally shifty and unpleasant crowd, the meaning of the phrase can segue to the narrower category actually in the anti-tort rhetorician's crosshairs: litigators who represent plaintiffs.

Tort "Reform" 2 2007

Fittingly, in view of the paranoid rhetorician's reliance on tropes of contagion, paranoid fictions are themselves contagious.

Paranoid Politics: Shelley and the _Quarterly Review_ 1997

Thus, the Greek term for the larger outlines of a major allegory would be kosmos, while in classical Greek the same term does double duty for the rhetorician's “ornament.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968

What was overheard of it acted as a stimulus to pleasure, added point to the rhetorician's speeches, excitement to the circus games, and a halo to the beauty of red-haired courtesans.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Street slang, to the rhetorician's lofty amusement.

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918

The practised voice of Sir William Rumbold, speaking on the platform, filled the ante-room, not with the rhetorician's counterfeit of sincerity, but, unmistakably, with sincerity itself.

The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

The practised voice of Sir William Rumbold, speaking on the platform, filled the ante-room, not with the rhetorician's counterfeit of sincerity, but, unmistakably, with sincerity itself.

The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Various 1915

So he was gentle and sympathetic and talked West Sixteenth Street slang, to the rhetorician's lofty amusement.

Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man 1914