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Recent Examples of spellbinderWilliam Jennings Bryan, the evangelical spellbinder from Nebraska, argued in the 1896 presidential election that McKinley Republicans were the party of corporate power, corporate subsidies, and the gold standard.—Brenda Wineapple, New Republic, 21 Dec. 2017 This performance was, more often than not, a spellbinder.—Richard S. Ginell, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2017
Conley is a rhetorician who researches how cultural influences shape our everyday habits, preferences, biases and desires, particularly in the area of food and taste.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
And, to be fair, inside the Fiserv Forum, the consummate rhetoricians were men of color—Byron Donalds, Wesley Hunt, Vivek Ramaswamy, and, the most fervent of all, Lorenzo Sewell, a pastor from Detroit.
From Trying to Be, which will be published next month by Fiction Collective Two.
t the end of an earlier century, an orator named F. Matthias Alexander codified a way of understanding, or at least thinking about, the body.
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John Haskell,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Archaeologists working in the Gulf of Naples have discovered the first physical evidence of what could be a bathhouse belonging to the famed Roman orator and politician Cicero.
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Aug. 2025
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