Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Studying this year in England has refreshed a lot of my outlook on Harvard, and has helped me assess our college's faults and virtues in a much more cogent, lucid way than if I had gotten progressively mired in Harvard for all of my four years," Hicks says...
...moment, those playing the emotive chords have captured the debate. Clinton's fairly cogent defense of his policies in a speech two weeks ago would never fit on a bumper sticker, though the bombast of a lot of critics allowed him to cast the terms as a choice between foolish isolation and practical engagement. No one who knows foreign policy thinks the U.S. should turn China into a pariah state, and only a handful called for Clinton to cancel his trip...
...Unknown City is a cogent and at times, exhausting read. The impact of the book lies in the unmerciless truth of its subject matter. This is not a movie or TV miniseries of the week. In The Unknown City the screenplay is that of life; the script that of experience. The interviewees are not fictional characters, but real people divulging the most intimate and, oftimes, humiliating details of their lives. And this is why, unless you are using it for a research paper, The Unknown City can be hard to get through. Perhaps it is a function of a culture...
What does this say about love life at Harvard? Has romance been reduced to whispering sweet nothings while frantically trying to catch Marty's last cogent sentence? Maybe it's time for love-deprived Harvard students to get a room. Or at least a quiet spot in Widener...
...told, are to become our homes away from home. Yet forcing smokers to stand outside their doors to have a cigarette tarnishes this ideal. Working smokers congregate outside their office buildings for a smoke break, not outside their homes. In dire need of someone to make a cogent defense of the right to smoke in the Houses, we find critics with unsatisfying, pragmatic objections. Outgoing Lowell House Master William H. Bossert '59 only objected to the policy on the grounds that it would be difficult to enforce and "lots of people standing outside the House, smoking" would sully his House...