Hear Why John Quincy Adams Is So Darn Sexy!

You might want to know that Figaro’s interview with Doug Fabrizio on Radio West has been nationally syndicated and is being re-broadcast September 3.  You can hear it now by clicking here; or tune to XM Radio channel 133 on the 3rd.  This excrutiatingly thoughtful hourlong program sure beats going to the beach or spending time with your family!

 Figaro is booking orations around the country, and may be coming to a forum near you.  Stay tuned for a schedule.

Comments

[MarkSouthFL]

"This excrutiatingly thoughtful hourlong program sure beats going to the beach or spending time with your family!"

Surely there is a difficult-to-pronounce Greek term for this form of hyperbole. Oh, wait -- you didn't mean it as hyperbole, did you? Which probably would yield, yet another term....

[Mari]

Very nice self put-down! What's it called?

[Figaro]

It's a CHARIENTISMUS (cha-ree-en-TIS-mus), the disarming figure. It cloaks an obnoxious thought, or turns away well-deserved attacks. A type of irony, it's often expressed as self-deprecation.

Figaro likes it, because self-deprecation comes remarkably easily to him.

Fig.

[Mark]

Great interview. I appreciate your insights and sharing your understanding of speech & persuasion.

[Avi]

Good interview. I hope you come to speak around the Maryland / DC area sometime. Of course, if you did, I'd probably miss it anyway. It happens to me.

[Figaro]

Thanks! Please let me know if your group or institution would like to have me come speak. I'm traveling a lot these days, so ask where I'll be.

Fig.