Rhetorical Capture
An argument which is expressed with such rhetorical panache that the arguer convinces himself and everyone else that it is correct.
A variant is the case of the person whose rhetoric is so powerful that he or she is only able to make life choices which live up to it; the mundane and the merely sensible are ruled out, with unintended consequences.
Related entries:
Hypocrisy, Balletic Debate, Emotional Argument, Harebrain Fracture, Metamorphosis, Icon.
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