(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.
(aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.
“Was it rather some sense of law, the ethic of her race and early environment, that compelled her to interpose her body between her husband and the helpless murderer?”
“Such research would be valuable and should examine both the effectiveness of fear appeals in ads as well as perceptions of the ethicality of these tactics.”
“Quite unmindfully, organizational practices can evolve that either insure a company's ethicality or future of dubious activity.”
“In the meantime, an essential first step is to begin examining tests in terms of ethicality and bias.”
“These environmental, social, and psychological factors likely help drive the increased unethicality observed among upper-class individuals.”
“Arguments both affirming and contesting the unethicality of political advertising, especially negative advertising, appears to come out most heavily on the side of unethicality.”
“It is unethicality when an entity acts intentionally to gain some advantage, or inflict some loss over another entity who is either unaware of such intention, or defenseless against it.”
“For example, ethologists generally agree that play in young animals is not escapist, but adaptive.”
“Recently, ethologists have applied the study of animal behavior to an increasing number of problems relating to conserving rare, declining, and threatened animal species.”
“Because of the broad range of his interests, John was always alert to the ways in which concepts and data from other fields might be useful to ornithologists and ethologists.”
“Some reformers and sociologists, though the majority stuck by the older internationalist ethicalities, began to adopt imperialist and group Social Darwinist views.”
“These three valuational attitudes form a triangle of mutually opposing ethea.”
“The place of this region is called the ethea of animals and refers to the place outside the domain of Greek culture, to the place of the barbarian who resists domestication.”
“The question arises from a limited ethos combined with its universalization, which transgresses its own limits, and its claim to authority over other ethea.”