Actually, the question is only somewhat rhetorical. Of course process matters!
On a rhetorical level, I think I'd caution him against blaming too much freedom right about now.
To explain why, let me answer a rhetorical question posed by Professor John Taylor of Stanford University in a recent op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal.
Instead, he is always willing to admit what he does not know or understand, and when he poses a question, he is never rhetorical. He seems genuinely to want to know the answer.
The rhetorical knives are out.
Archie, of course, can't stand this because for him it's perfectly clear that a rhetorical question is a rhetorical question.
For Barack Obama, a rhetorical master in his presidential honeymoon, it should serve as impetus for change.
De Man's point is a question is both rhetorical and grammatical, and the one cannot be reduced to the other. Both readings are available.
This may sound like rhetorical snobbery, or plain stuffiness; but you will discover, in the course of your work, that the setting of a word is just as restrictive as the setting of a jewel.
On the other hand, all these questions were rhetorical.
Intensive reading, writing, and discussion forced me to absorb and master new vocabulary and rhetorical tactics at a rapid pace.
With some variation, but largely regardless of party, presidents since Harry Truman have tended toward rhetorical budget balancing while being downright heedless of debt.
This is a bit of a rhetorical question.
To some it hit the rhetorical heights of Cicero (Simon Schama, a historian, in the Financial Times).
I am not convinced that the poem's radical and most subversive and most exquisite rhetorical effects, these amazing similes, present us with anything like a simple and unambiguous religious message.
Constructive Suggestions are rare in a debate that has mixed a lot of rhetorical cant with a big principle.
I guess this passage isn't rhetorical after all.
They cannot be reconciled as traditional students of the relationship between rhetoric and grammar in studying the rhetorical and grammatical effects of literature take for granted.
It was a set of critical and rhetorical practices that sought to destabilise the modernist touchstones of identity, historical progress and epistemic certainty.
Thursday night was no different By the time Obama took the microphone, there was no policy point or rhetorical flourish that did not find itself worthy of an amen and a cheer.
Before that oxymoron was a technical term describing a rhetorical device.
Such rhetorical flourishes demonstrate the power of the Green vote in Brighton.
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