rhetorical

But politicians abhor a rhetorical vacuum, and they have clamored to fill it.

Its rhetorical potential—if it ever had any—has been thoroughly exhausted.

It was a gracious touch, a rhetorical olive branch to his vanquished foes.

Yet the president uses it for rhetorical vividness—a clarity, as it were.

But this new flavor of rhetorical flimflam is still pretty, well, whack.

The style of Sallust is brilliant, but his art is always apparent; he is clear and lively, but rhetorical.

To every one he said a hearty thing, and sometimes touched his greeting off with a bit of poetry or a rhetorical phrase.

Lynn was a humored, wayward child, and this cold severity did more to quiet him than an hour's rhetorical pleading.

Milton gives us a rhetorical definition in a negative form, which is of equal value, at least, with any authority yet cited.

His clutch on the letter was distinctly inquisitive, and he read out the opening sentences with almost rhetorical effect.