The Hagar seems a trifle too rhetorical for the simple-minded painter.

They were too rhetorical to suit the taste of Lord Brougham.

But one of the defects of the listening habit is perhaps to make them too rhetorical, too verbose.

The whole address is contemptuous towards the Romans, though somewhat too rhetorical for a man in the situation of Spartacus.

It was too rhetorical to be scientific; but it recited the series of ideas which the controversy had carried to the front.

The King insisted on excluding from it all that was too rhetorical, and confining it to the mere discussion of essential points.

Too rhetorical by half, I know.