When he returned, he put his learning and considerable rhetorical force at the service of the Puritan cause.

This concept was first explored in the TOS episode Charlie X, but it was given more rhetorical force in Errand of Mercy.

Mr. Segre played it intently, weighing the rhetorical force of each successive statement, and he held the audience's attention closely.

Charter 88 arrived on the newsstands of Britain with the rhetorical force of a Tom Paine tract.

But the cumulative rhetorical force was tremendous.

They are, or were, a purely rhetorical, as opposed to a practical, force.

Employing uncharacteristic brushes of rhetorical force in their final report, they ruled the crash a suicide/homicide by deliberate action of the captain.

Apart from its revisionism, its most striking quality is the avoidance of clutter, and hence its rhetorical force.

It was not just a bunch of people dancing, but suddenly this other thing, like music, which had rhetorical force.

The soloist is required to demonstrate considerable technical facility at points, and the work at once expresses the rhetorical force of the text, whilst never being demonstrative or bombastic.