Quotes by Rhetorical We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this. Anthony Marra rhetorical chechnya subjects All rhetorical questions are accusations. David Mamet rhetorical-question rhetorical accusation Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview. David Roochnik postmodernism rhetorical term There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification. George Henry Lewes rhetorical amplification wealth All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets. George Santayana rhetorical poet language Do I know what rhetorical means? Homer rhetorical knows mean The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel rhetorical poetic philosophical We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them. Northrop Frye rhetorical situation imagination Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left. Sean Hannity rhetorical democracy determination