Our organization has worked tirelessly to get rid of the kind of racist, stereotyped attitudes that lead to such rhetorical excesses.

Mr. Gore has instructed his aides to avoid rhetorical excesses and urged them to act with restraint, one senior aide said.

Today the evidence of arrogance, deceit and miscalculation has grown so decisive that rhetorical excess will serve only to distract from it.

During the 1970's, I would flee from the rhetorical excess that came to characterize the profession of college teaching.

Although he has reined in the rhetorical excesses of his early years, he has never ceased to experiment with form and content.

Therefore, it is unfortunate that in his final chapter Pollack damages his argument by rhetorical excess.

I was astonished by this question, which struck me as bizarre rhetorical excess at the time.

Time columnist Lance Morrow called the speech a "symphony of rhetorical excess."

Mr. Blakes's mention of suicide was more than rhetorical excess.

Verbal and rhetorical excess are generally how novelists have been combating the surfeit of appetite they spy in America.