Word: cloquently
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...left, and so did a number of people. I was able to move a lot closer to the podium and to the more cloquent patriots there. Bob was clearly the hero, though. Part of the rest of the program was, in effect, a eulogy to Bob Hope, America's truest citizen. Every speaker bestowed upon certain figures the label "Great American," and no one forgot to include Bob on his list...
Mirko is a most wordlessly cloquent grammar teacher. He visits all the classes in the VAC occasionally. When he dropped in on one VES 20 section he moved a one inch black square into a big white area on a figure-ground exercise. Instantly the design improved 100 per cent -- you knew what "activating space" meant and what a square could do, although it would take ten pages to explain it in writing...
...film such as To Live in Peace, the most recent Italian Import, is cloquent proof that straightforwardness and simple realism are far better dramatic ingredients than the usual artificiality and mock heroics that accompany war movies. Even the story is simple: it concerns a little mountain town almost untouched by the war which rages around it. Untouched, at least, until two escaped American prisoners looking for shelter, which is given them by a local farmer. Their hiding and subsequent discovery provide ample opportunity for both comedy and tragedy, as well as for straight drama...
Perhaps the most cloquent plea of the Faculty majority which last December voted to restrict tutorial to honors candidates and Sophomores of Group IV and above was that this action would in effect strengthen the system. Recognizing the drain and strain placed upon the Faculty by the war, the overwhelming majority of students accepted this decision in good faith...
...they do rise and chirp and with them all the Tower. So I up too, and awhile to watch the River which so early in the morning is covered with golden mist as beautiful as ever I did sec. Whereupon, very serious, I to read my speech which is cloquent, but I am no great speaker and why I did enter this contest I do not know. "Charm us, orator, till the lion look no longer than the cat!" Fiddlesticks! Already there be too much false charming and not enough truth. But Plato does give both; and I am glad...