Word: cogent
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...fantasy is that someday…I can run for Congress on the grounds that everyday people—be they singers or poets or bankers or lawyers or teachers—should be in government.” If Affleck can capitalize on this notion and present cogent but less characteristically passionate arguments, then he could create a tough race for Allen...
...Trier has a tendency to go overboard in his denunciations of American violence (Dogville). By contrast, Dear Wendy is a cogent, comprehensive take on the land and the films that obsess him. In his upended western plot, these nice kids are inventing villains, reacting to outside threats that don't exist. By the end, the political implications are clear: the U.S. sees itself as the lonesome marshal--Gary Cooper in High Noon--when in fact it possesses the world's biggest arsenal and is making more trouble than it's preventing. Or not. But you needn't agree with this...
...come out of doping control on the last day in Paris. If that comes back positive, then it's news. Right now, it's just more sniping." But Richard Pound, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, disagrees: "Here seems to be much harder and more cogent evidence than has been the case in previous allegations," Pound told TIME. "It's the first time in any of these cases involving Armstrong that it isn?t he-said-she-said stuff...
...feeling all along was that Harvard administration was not stepping up to the moral plate on this and was refusing for reasons that were not cogent to do what a moral institution should do, which was to wash its hands of the grime of apartheid,” says Rothschild, who is now editor of The Progressive, a magazine that advocates peace and social justice in the United States...
...Schiavo's feeding tube, the House of Representatives, led by Republican Tom DeLay, took the extraordinary step on Friday of issuing a subpoena for Schiavo herself, along with her doctors and family. The move was rebuffed by Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge George Greer, who said there was "no cogent reason" for Congress to intervene. The tube was taken out Friday, but a day later the House and Senate were crafting a measure that would allow Schiavo's parents to take the case for keeping her alive to federal court...