All 21 Uses of
coherent
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Of late, too, he looked somehow bloated and seemed more irresponsible, more uneven, had sunk into a sort of incoherence, used to begin one thing and go on with another, as though he were letting himself go altogether.†
Chpt 1
- But his incoherent talk was cut short by a very pale, wan-looking monk of medium height, wearing a monk's cap, who overtook them.†
Chpt 2 *
- The poor fellow went on rising gradually into a sort of incoherent, almost wild enthusiasm.†
Chpt 4
- He had encouraged him to talk to him, although he had always wondered at a certain incoherence, or rather restlessness, in his mind, and could not understand what it was that so continually and insistently worked upon the brain of "the contemplative."†
Chpt 5
- There was, in fact, something surprising in the illogicality and incoherence of some of his desires, accidentally betrayed and always vaguely expressed.†
Chpt 5
- Father Ferapont, too, got up and crossing himself went back to his cell without looking round, still uttering exclamations which were utterly incoherent.†
Chpt 7
- And Mitya began telling her all about it, disconnectedly, incoherently, feverishly.†
Chpt 8
- Grigory was muttering incoherently: "He has murdered …. his father murdered….†
Chpt 9
- Marfa, shrieking and screaming incoherently, managed to tell them the main fact, and to beg for assistance.†
Chpt 9
- But it's his doing, his doing; there's no doubt about it, he murdered him, that's as clear as daylight now," Mitya exclaimed more and more frantically, repeating himself incoherently, and growing more and more exasperated and excited.†
Chpt 9
- He did not conceal his vexation, which was almost anger, and gave vent to all his accumulated spleen, disconnectedly and incoherently, without choosing words.†
Chpt 9
- What can men be after this?" he exclaimed incoherently, in bitter despondency, almost despair.†
Chpt 9
- Mitya had been talkative, but very absent-minded and incoherent.†
Chpt 11
- He hardly contested the evidence against him, and if he tried to turn a fact to his advantage, it was in an absurd and incoherent way.†
Chpt 11
- But he could not bring forward any coherent explanation of the fact.†
Chpt 11
- "He talks very coherently," thought Ivan, "though he does mumble; what's the derangement of his faculties that Herzenstube talked of?"†
Chpt 11
- It was like the talk of a drunken man, who, on his return home, begins with extraordinary heat telling his wife or one of his household how he has just been insulted, what a rascal had just insulted him, what a fine fellow he is on the other hand, and how he will pay that scoundrel out; and all that at great length, with great excitement and incoherence, with drunken tears and blows on the table.†
Chpt 11
- He still went on talking, talking incessantly, but quite incoherently, and even articulated his words with difficulty.†
Chpt 11
- And all the time he was being removed, he yelled and screamed something incoherent.†
Chpt 12
- During the last few days he has talked incoherently in my presence.†
Chpt 12
- During the mass Snegiryov became somewhat calmer, though at times he had outbursts of the same unconscious and, as it were, incoherent anxiety.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(coherent) sensible and clear; or describing parts as fitting together in a consistent or pleasing manner