Word: cogently
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POLITICAL ACTIVIST ARIANNA HUFFINGton is the Betsy Ross of America's current conservative risorgimento [REPUBLICANS, Nov. 6]. In a recent TV debate, she was impressive as she made cogent and compassionate arguments in a heated exchange with veteran leftists Betty Friedan and Karen Burstein. Huffington for President in 2000? ROBERT D. LEVINE New York City
...have yet to see a cogent call for welfare reform that doesn't contain at least one serious ellipsis in its logic Usually, however--and unlike Whitman--their authors at least try to conceal such leaps of faith. --James Grimmelmann...
...Verhoeven, the director of two sleek, inventive Hollywood fantasies (RoboCop, Total Recall), for making this movie--though we're surprised he can bear to watch it. The real culprit is Eszterhas, swami of the High Concept. He found Nazis in The Music Box and white supremacists in Betrayed, but cogent drama in neither. His favorite plot hook, sexual mutilation, bore rancid fruit in Jagged Edge, Basic Instinct and Sliver. At least those three had some sick kick to them. But if his women characters aren't psychos or sex-crime victims, the scripts get shrill and turgid. After an hour...
During the question-and-answer session, Specter was unable to offer a cogent explanation for his a pro-abortion position. All of his responses boiled down to the following lame mantra: "The Supreme Court has decided the issue, and we are a nation of laws. The Supreme Court has decided...
...Long Black Veil is a lovely introduction to this musical Irish institution, with a cogent, eclectic choice of material and Moloney's smart matching of song to singer. Sting leads off with the rapturous Mo Ghile Mear--Our Hero, a tribute to Bonnie Prince Charlie that makes the listener shiver, and sing along, with its manly melancholy. For three other star studs, Moloney provided tales of faithless women: the dirty dancer in Jones' giddily melodramatic version of Tennessee Waltz, the vixen who leads a beau to murder in Knopfler's The Lily of the West, the adulteress refusing to save...