A. Richards (Ivor Armstrong Richards, 26 February 1893 7 September 1979) was an influential English literary critic and rhetorician.

The challenge, though, as always, is to move from concerned rhetoric to concrete application.

We should study them with the same intensity that we study all the other important natural phenomena, like global warming, as we heard so eloquently last night from Al Gore.

All of these concepts, as kind of rhetorically florid as they are, share this basic assumption, which is that an idea is a single thing, it's something that happens often in a wonderful illuminating moment.

In order not to repeat what has already been said by a number of my colleagues, I would just like to reiterate that Turkey also fully shares the vision and strategy of the Secretary General with respect to what he has so eloquently termed freedom from want .

Some suggest that the SNP s accession to power in Scotland does herald the rebirth of a nation, many others regard that claim as rhetoric which ignores the tremendous advances made in the quality of life, opportunity and living standards.