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• n  using language effectively to please or persuade
• n  high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
• n  loud and confused and empty talk
  mere rhetoric
• n  study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)

• Politicians' rhetoric does not give their supporters bread but it is an art they have so perfected that rhetoric does give politicians bread.
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the anti-government rhetoric over President Barack Obama's health care reform effort is concerning because it reminds her of the .
• In an exclusive interview with PTI, the Venezuelan leader defends his harsh rhetoricand adds some more.

• grandiosity
• magniloquence
• ornateness
• grandiloquence
• palaver
• hot air
• empty words
• empty talk

News & Articles

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• Gulf Shi'ites fear rising sectarian rhetoric over Syria
  By Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) - Shi'ite Muslims in the Gulf, alarmed by the shrill sectarian rhetoric of some Sunni clerics after Lebanon's Hezbollah militia entered Syria's civil war, fear they will be blamed and may be victimized for the bloodshed. "Hate language is on the rise, in the press, on social media and even at lectures in mosques. Shi'ites in general are being blamed for what's ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Ethiopia dismisses Egypt's "psychological warfare" on dam
  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia dismissed Egyptian talk of military action against a giant dam it is building on the Nile as "psychological warfare", and said on Tuesday it would defend itself and carry on with the work regardless. Bellicose rhetoric between two of Africa's most populous and fastest-growing nations has raised fears of conflict over water, though both sides are ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Glenn Beck Loses Voice, Pledges To Stop Divisive Rhetoric [Video]
  Glenn Beck losing his voice may have forced some perspective on the controversial political pundit. Though Beck has always been controversial, he has been noted recently for increasingly harsh and divisive rhetoric. After Michelle Obama stood up to a heckler during a speech last week, Beck excoriated her: “This woman’s a monster,” Beck declared. “She [...] Glenn Beck Loses Voice, Pledges To Stop ...
  June 11, 2013 - The Inquisitr

Quotes

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• Bobby Jindal in CTV.ca
  They've used the war rhetoric,Jindal said. "If this is really a war, they need to be using every resource that makes sense to fight this oil before it comes to our coast."
• Boris Johnson in Korea Times
  London Mayor Boris Johnson said in a radio interview, "I do think there's something slightly worrying about the anti-British rhetoric that seems to be permeating from America. I would like to see a bit of cool heads rather than endlessly...
• John McCain in International Herald Tribune
  But at a Lakeville, Minn., town hall meeting, McCain said his differences with Obama are over "rhetoric and record," not character, and he was booed by his own supporters when he said: "I have to tell you, he is a decent person and a person...