rhetorical

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rhetorically
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/rɪˈtɔr·ɪ·kli, -ˈtɑr-/
without expecting or needing an answer:
"Why did this happen to me?" she asked rhetorically.

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rhetorically
This sense of balance is what makes his contrapuntal realisation rhetorically elegant.
In the bearing rein debate, the emphasis on utility, precision, rationality, and the verity of scientific understanding functioned rhetorically as a distancing device.
This antithesis between emotional plenitude and legal nullity rhetorically stages an imbalance that cries out for redress.
A third method was rhetorically to use epithets that were appropriate to a deity, thus associating with the divine being.
However, it is also important to recognise that lifelong learning is also concerned (if only rhetorically) with social justice.
The deeper problem, if we too may put it rhetorically, is that a 20,000-year lifestyle with a satellite computer is an oxymoron.
Initially, people unconsciously adopt a certain meaning and exploit it rhetorically and only later does the change become subject to conscious evaluation.
As a corollary, the fossil record was implicitly and rhetorically (though not practically) substituted with the molecular record.
By the same token, one could rhetorically ask what is the point of criticizing a university's symphony orchestra.
Rhetorically, this development helped bolster the authors' conclusions, now validated by the reader's implied participation and consent.
It appears that ornamental alliteration has here been made ancillary to the functional, the unnecessary rhetorically reinforcing the necessary.
This is the rhetorically, linguistically, and imagistically basic aspect of symbolization.
Furthermore, these themes tended to persevere as recognisable self-contained packages, eminently suitable to a self-conscious and manipulative deployment within a rhetorically conceived iconographic scheme.
Prescriptivists - not all of them, perhaps, but enlightened ones - want to figure out the most effective uses of language, both grammatically and rhetorically.
The convention of suffixes constructed to designate higher degrees of oxygenation is no more helpful; here, no rhetorically realist evocation is even feigned.
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