All 9 Uses of
eloquent
in
Invisible Man by Ellison
- Hadn't he refused to eat in the dining hall with white guests of the school, entering only after they had finished and then refusing to sit down, but remaining standing, his hat in his hand, while he addressed them eloquently, then leaving with a humble bow?†
Chpt 4
- I see in my mind's eye the fatal atmosphere of that jam-packed auditorium: The Founder holds the audience within the gentle palm of his eloquence, rocking it, soothing it, instructing it; and there below, the rapt faces blushed by the glow of the big pot-bellied stove now turned cherry-red with its glowing; yes, the spellbound rows caught in the imperious truth of his message.†
Chpt 5
- I imagined myself making a speech and caught in striking poses by flashing cameras, snapped at the end of some period of dazzling eloquence.†
Chpt 8
- "You know," he said, taking a gulp of coffee, "I haven't heard such an effective piece of eloquence since the days when I was in-well, in a long time.†
Chpt 13
- It had eloquence.†
Chpt 13
- He was an exhorter, all right, and I was caught in the crude, insane eloquence of his plea.†
Chpt 17
- I acted out a pantomime more eloquent than my most expressive words.†
Chpt 19
- I had no words and no eloquence, and when Ras thundered, "Hang him!" I stood there facing them, and it seemed unreal.
Chpt 25 *eloquence = powerful use of language
- …was real and yet unreal, knowing that he wanted my life, that he held me responsible for all the nights and days and all the suffering and for all that which I was incapable of controlling, and I no hero, but short and dark with only a certain eloquence and a bottomless capacity for being a fool to mark me from the rest; saw them, recognized them at last as those whom I had failed and of whom I was now, just now, a leader, though leading them, running ahead of them, only in the…†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(eloquent) powerful use of language