Her speech was just empty rhetoric.
He was prepared to use militant rhetoric in attacking his opponents.
Behind all the rhetoric, his relations with the army are tense.
Little has changed, despite the rhetoric about reform.
official rhetoric on the virtues of large families
• Aristotle's subject
• Art of speaking
• Bombast
• Campaign output, often
• Debate Clubber's talent
• Empty talk
• Empty words
• Grandiloquence
• Hot air
• Inflated language
• Insincere language
• Orator's art
• Oratorical skill
• Pretentious speech
• Sophist's forte
• Subject explored by Plato
• Subject taken by speakers
• Subject taught by Aristotle
• Washington display
• Using language effectively to please or persuade
• High flown style
• Excessive use of verbal ornamentation
• Loud and confused and empty talk
• Study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
1. риторика; стилистика
2. 1) ораторское искусство
2) краснобайство
3. ист. искусство влиять на образ мыслей слушателей (у др.-греч. ораторов)
to be hooked by smb's rhetoric — поддаваться чьим-л. увещеваниям