Word: cogent
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...think anybody can find a political agenda, a moral agenda. I insist that I am objective." Up to a point, that is--he'll bend the truth for the sake of a good line. "I had a groupie at the end deliver what I thought was a quite cogent remark," he recalls. "'Every girl wants to f___ a star. Every girl.' My daughter said, 'Nobody talks like that, Dad.'" This time his grin is a little lupine. "But I left...
Perhaps most telling, my dorm mates preferred to watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s commentary on the presidential debates above any news sources. Of course, in a culture that prioritizes snippy phrases over cogent logic, the ultimate broadcaster is Jon Stewart. I completely agree that when Stewart takes news clips and unmercifully ridicules important public figures, it’s very funny. But that’s all that it is, and I’m not sure that my fellow students always realize it. In fact, Jon Stewart was recently on CNN?...
...cherished, rather than lamented. We have an ideological playground where we can organize, write, debate, protest—even physically invade other peoples’ office space—with minuscule effect and correspondingly miniscule consequences. The result is a culture that encourages us to form and express cogent arguments and opinions, to interpret the world in a productive and reflective manner—and to do so in an environment where fear of failure discourages no one from participating...
...before the Senate, "we'll learn more about those various theories in the weeks and months ahead," sounding calm and reasoned as he tiptoed backward out of the saloon before he really got beat up. CIA chief Tenet, in a rare public speech at Georgetown University, made the more cogent--and contrite--argument, admitting that spying is a game of percentages. "In the intelligence business, you are almost never completely wrong or completely right...like many of the toughest intelligence challenges, when the facts of Iraq are all in, we will neither be completely right nor completely wrong." Bush called...
...house party for General Wesley Clark. "I'm switching to Clark," she told me, after listening to the general's new, sleek stump speech. "When I saw Dean speak, it was like a revival meeting--very exciting but not much detail. This was a lot more intelligent and cogent. There was no anger here, which is the one thing I was worried about with Dean...