"equivalent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Following Pat Buchanan's victory in New Hampshire, Bob Dole, Lamar Alexander and the Congressional leadership immediately resorted to the G.O.P.'s rhetorical equivalent of a tactical nuclear weapon against Mr. Buchanan by labeling him an extremist.
- "This is the rhetorical equivalent of kissing a baby," he said.
- But with just two weeks to go until the election, New Yorkers deserve something substantial, even if it is delivered in the rhetorical equivalent of a screech.
- They are the rhetorical equivalents of tugging at the forelock (difficult to imagine in Cheney's case) in a kind of uppity modesty, as it were.
- In the same way, I think it's terrific that they're making suits out there that don't have any --" he paused, executing the rhetorical equivalent of a grimace "-- sleeves, or whatever.
- I'm not sure I have ever encountered a novel as heavily defended as "Lunar Park," which arrives surrounded by the rhetorical equivalent of moats, high walls and velvet ropes - an insecurity apparatus designed not to keep you out so much as to disarm your preconceptions.
- The result has often been the rhetorical equivalent to the fog of battle, a fog in which women have been peculiarly absent, the ghosts of the debate.
- This argument is the rhetorical equivalent of wearing a white three-piece suit in public, a way of attracting attention.
- His attempt in Michigan to solve both problems at once was the rhetorical equivalent of Steve Martin's performance in "The Man with Two Brains."
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