Word: cogently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bosco gives too much credit to Mansfield and not enough to the students. The reason for the nearly uniform pro-Sullivan response was that Mansfield was unable to articulate his ideas in a cogent manner. I talked to Mansfield after the debate and he did indeed give better arguments than he had previously, but (perhaps due to what he called "stage fright") those arguments were not expressed during the debate...
...wobbly? Interestingly, Grunbaum himself thinks all is not lost, although his verdict is not entirely cheering: "I categorically don't believe Freud is dead. The question is, Are they trustworthy explanations? Have the hypotheses been validated by cogent, solid evidence? My answer to that...
Basically a Democrat, Kinsley is enough of an independent thinker that he occasionally argues with himself. Last fall, as an intellectual exercise, he set out to make a case for voting for George Bush. He produced some cogent arguments, then pronounced a one-word verdict on them: "Nawwwwww . . ." Now, bucking journalistic fashion, Kinsley describes himself as still "one of the bigger Clinton enthusiasts around." The President has made mistakes, he says, but "the center of his trouble is that he is seriously addressing problems that the past two Presidents have ignored," notably the deficit (Mike is a confirmed deficit hawk...
...carried through--and there will be no dearth of voices accusing Clinton of cowardice if he later backs down. Merely by issuing the threat, the administration shows that it is willing to employ protectionist policies. And in the process, the American government denies itself its best defense: a cogent intellectual argument. For if there are circumstances in which it makes economic sense to grant greater protection to, say, the American car industry (and the threat takes that as its premise), the administration can no longer deploy the economic argument for free trade with conviction...
...first one we reached wanted to focus on men's crew. We spent hours trying to find another reporter. An hour before deadline and still without a second reporter, we told the first writer to include the women. The reporter reached the varsity heavyweight coxswain, who delivered a cogent account of her boat's race. We couldn't reach any other rowers in time, and the story went to print...