Rhetorician Gifts

"Forget digression, imbecilio, chiasmus, isocolon, paradox, diacope, anaphora, metonymy, litotes - just take offence."

'His best qualities are circumventing questions and evading answers.'

Changing Minds

Information...political rhetoric

"Mr. McMurdo has been called 'guilty as the day is long.' And yet, do not biblical scholars tell us a day can mean many things?"

"Presidential approval ratings. US stock market confidence indices. U.S. dollar index. So much winning."

'There are no stupid questions, so let's also agree there are no stupid answers.'

'Actually, I think my use of hyperbole is not only iconoclastic, it is potentially revolutionary.'

The Truth

Like Minded

And now, for a rebuttal.

"...and to save you time, anything I say that comes back to haunt me, was something taken out of context."

"Smart stuff, Chip, but wise up and dumb it down."

"Negotiations are at a crucial phase. We're desperately seeking more ways to say 'no'.''

Professor Dubreuil is blow away by the dynamic vitality of Dean Richmond's rhetoric.

Your logic is flaccid and your data suppositional, dawg!

Language of politics.

Vote For Me: The winning over of voters.

Lawyers - A peroration a la Demosthenes

Violent Rhetoric

'Wow! Can't you just feel the safe-ness!'

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, transgender. . ."

"I'd like to start by saying that anything I say that will come back to haunt me will be something taken out of context."

What came first, the chicken or the egg

'Hopkins, I want you to write me an inspiring, dynamic speech that bears my unmistakable stamp of genius.'

"Not guilty, because your lawyer came up with some great excuses."

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

Peace Policy

"Could you please refer to this as a merger rather than being in cahoots?"

Vicar and Devil at the Pulpit