Assertion: cicero's time | /r/CapableOf | become divorced
Facets:
value: from political decision making
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: At the same time that rhetoric was becoming divorced from political decision making, rhetoric rose as a culturally vibrant and important mode of entertainment and cultural criticism in a movement known as the "second sophistic", a development that gave rise to the charge (made by Quintilian and others) that teachers were emphasizing style over substance in rhetoric.