Rhetorical

(adj.) given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; 'mere rhetorical frippery' .

(adj.) of or relating to rhetoric; 'accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested'- W.A.White; 'the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation'- Lewis Mumford .

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• One is the increasingly reminiscent and borrowed character of culture; the other is the political and rhetorical bent of Roman life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And politics, however pretentiously rhetorical about ideals, is irrelevant if the only method it knows is to ostracize the desires it cannot manage. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was a very ordinary adolescent production, rhetorical and imitative. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Its style was rhetorical by modern standards. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Is there anything more in it than a name--a rhetorical flourish? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

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