We need dedication by all parties, not rhetoric or public relations.

Convince him by logic and rhetoric to change his coat as well?

Perhaps the displacement of all artistic sensibility by rhetoric might be considered one reliable guideline.

He was concerned that actors or orators were thus able to persuade an audience by rhetoric rather than by telling the truth.

In terms of the issues that divide the two countries, either there was silence by both sides or just empty rhetoric.

His plan, in other words, remains driven more by rhetoric than by urban form.

It has been a rhetorical device, then - necessary because (my literary friends tell me) science proceeds by just such rhetoric - but rhetorical nonetheless.

In 1980, Ronald Reagan would win the presidency by campaigning on laissez-faire rhetoric.

Yet the debate over these changes is marked more by political rhetoric than by an examination of their social and economic implications.

He himself expressed his scorn for making war by rhetoric.