All 5 Uses of
coherent
in
Catch-22
- Hungry Joe was babbling incoherently when they fished him out from the dank bottom of the slit trench, babbling of snakes, rats and spiders.†
Chpt 3 *
- It was McWatt, begging for directions in an incoherent frenzy.†
Chpt 15
- Mobs of sick and injured men began ranting incoherently and running and jumping in the aisle as though the building were on fire.†
Chpt 34
- He felt himself falling, falling ecstatically in love with her as she kissed him again and again with lips that were steaming and wet and soft and hard, mumbling deep sounds to him adoringly in an incoherent oblivion of rapture, one caressing hand on his back slipping deftly down inside his trouser belt while the other groped secretly and treacherously about on the floor for the bread knife and found it.†
Chpt 38
- Yossarian said no. Major Danby agreed with a melancholy nod, lowering his eyes again, and there was no hope at all for either of them until footsteps exploded in the corridor suddenly and the chaplain, shouting at the top of his voice, came bursting into the room with the electrifying news about Orr, so overcome with hilarious excitement that he was almost incoherent for a minute or two.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(coherent) sensible and clear; or describing parts as fitting together in a consistent or pleasing manner