Word: cogent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they hang separately. But with its grand theme, Paris, Je t'aime establishes a tone - of love, in bloom or suspended animation - that for the most part is sustained from one segment to the next. This is a dégustation du chef to savor, a tasting menu of cogent attitudes and poignant images...
...weak, untrustworthy and effete. McKinnon was amazed the Democrats had never quite figured this out. In fact, they had it backward: the character of their candidate, they believed, would be inferred from the quality of his policies. But in the television era, fleeting impressions mattered far more than cogent policies. Presidential politics had been reduced to a handful of moments and gestures. In fact, the 2004 campaign came down to two sentences. Kerry: "I actually voted for the $87 billion [to fund Iraq] before I voted against...
...nuclear program to heel, U.S. President George W. Bush is plainly eager to finesse the trade issue as best he can. Asked a leading question at a press conference about trade with China earlier this month, Bush not only didn't take the bait, but offered a crisply cogent description of the economic reality Hu faces every morning: "Listen," Bush said, "China's a country that has to create 25 million jobs a year just to stay even. Think about that." He left it to Commerce Secretary Gutierrez to play what one former U.S. trade official called "the standard...
...Harvard’s radio station in the basement of Pennypacker. On the cover of “Today,” the band’s second full-length, someone has scrawled in Bic pen: “Damon, the percussionist on this recording, gave a brilliant and cogent Duchamp presentation in the Jameson seminar last year.” It’s signed by someone named Vodka. Krukowski, for one, takes his duel life—and the above comment—in stride. “I bet I know who that...
Like a PBS Frontline special, but with a bit more attitude, Why We Fight makes a cogent case against the Iraq adventure. The film is, of course, a handbook for the converted. Those in agreement will see it, those opposed will ignore it. That is the fate of political documentaries in an age when the left mostly talks to itself...