“Should we be leaving soon?” “Is that a 'rhetorical question'?” [=is that a question you're asking as a way to say that we should be leaving soon?]
an expert 'rhetorician' [=a person who is able to use language in a very effective way]
My question was 'rhetorical'. I wasn't really expecting an answer.
(..) I'd say that you were at war with Emil Bradford. I never intended to stoop to his level, but I wasn't about to let his nasty, uninformed rhetoric undo years of progress. So, hacking the Men Now Web site was, what, your way of extending an olive branch? (..)2016 TvShow: Bones Title: The Murder of the Meninist Season: 11 Episode 12