1.   Suspicion, second-guessing, rebukes and heavy rhetoric took over.

2.   Yet, for all its cumulative impact, Frears never allows rhetoric to take over.

3.   But then the rhetoric took on the character of a vendetta.

4.   The rhetoric took wing at times in the Republican presidential debate Thursday night, giving viewers some flights of fancy.

5.   But by Wednesday afternoon the rhetoric had taken a political spin.

6.   But later Wednesday the rhetoric took a political spin.