7 sentences with 'rhetoric'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rhetoric and other words derived from it.
• « Combining the practical study of languages, history, mathematics and rhetoric (among other subjects) with the cultivation of an ethical code that humanistics traced back to the Greeks, humanist education ultimately created a curriculum aimed at creating well-rounded, virtuous individuals. »
• « The two main areas that a man had to master were, therefore, war and rhetoric: the ability to defeat enemies in battle and the ability to persuade potential allies in the political arena. »
• « Unlike the sophists' mastery of rhetoric, the aim of Socratic question-and-answer sessions was not to prove that nothing was true, but to force one to arrive at truths through the most rigorous application of human reason. »
• « Along with philosophy and architecture, the most important Greek import to reach Roman shores was rhetoric: the mastery of words and language to persuade people and win arguments. »
• « The Romans also formalised instruction in rhetoric, a practice of studying the speeches of the great orators and politicians of the past and debating instructors and fellow students in simulated scenarios. »
• « There was a vast Greco-Roman literature describing government, science, engineering, etc., all of which were needed in the new Christian Empire. A kind of uneasy balance was struck between the study of classical learning, especially things like rhetoric, while warning of the spiritual danger of being seduced by its non-Christian messages. »
• « The result was that, at least in the better cathedral schools, a large number of newly appointed priests emerged with a strong grasp of Christian thought and an equally strong grasp of rhetoric, debate and logic. »