Word: cogent
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...think Bruce’s lecture [on Monday] was very clear and cogent and he got what I think I can describe accurately as very enthusiastic applause at the end,” Faltesek said...
...would certainly like to know. "We went to the Israelis and said, 'What's going on?'" says a senior State Department official. "Their answer was, 'We're going down to the Muqata'a, and we're going to blow up some buildings.' They haven't given us a particularly cogent reason why they decided to do this...
...brief trip to the Middle East conflict, a three-week journey from Cairo to Istanbul, has not given me any cogent insight into the conflict. The columns and editorials I have read this week provide small bits of wisdom and less encouragement. Perhaps I feel like many of us do when confronted with this bloody, intractable mess when I simply want to throw my hands up in the air and exclaim, “The world...
...just Winchell's Broadway with better weather; chicanery and cupidity know no time zone. At Lehman's first meeting with Lancaster, the actor walked in zipping his fly and declaring, "She swallowed it!" Soon Lehman's writing assignments were extending beyond script work, according to Kate Buford's cogent biography, "Lancaster: An American Life," which gives the fullest account of the making of "Sweet Smell." Barbara Nichols, who was to play the sexy cigarette girl, had spent most of a recent night trysting with the film's producer, James Hill - like Lancaster, a notorious ladies' man. In the wee-smalls...
...late Meg Greenfield, who for years ran the Washington Post's editorial page, wrote that when she was a young woman and had not yet learned to write and think, she would join conversations in which the following would pass for a cogent political opinion: "John Foster Dulles....I mean....Dulles...