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  • Mr. Barbour's boating stories, never particularly cogent, or focused, or informative about the actual sport, had always vibrated with a majestic urgency all their own, an appealing tingle of disaster.†  (source)
    cogent = powerfully persuasive
  • I'm out of anything that passes for a cogent argument, so I come back with the first thing that pops into my head.†  (source)
  • No answer more cogent than that came to my mind.†  (source)
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  • The more dilapidated the buildings and the filthier the streets, the more cogent were the directions.†  (source)
    cogent = powerfully persuasive
  • There was a certain cogency in Trilling's attack, at least with regard to Anderson's inferior work, most of which he wrote after Winesburg, Ohio.†  (source)
  • But listening to her cogently mapping out what we needed to indict, a tantalizing thought took hold of me.†  (source)
    cogently = in a logical manner that is powerful and persuasive
  • Jake wanted to gush forth in some cogent and sensible argument, but brilliance failed him miserably at the moment.†  (source)
    cogent = powerfully persuasive
  • As to the mode of composition, it would not be difficult to show that at least the a priori Wolfian arguments against the early use of writing for literary purposes have no longer the cogency which they were once thought to possess.†  (source)
  • I grasped how others came to the matter at hand directly, and who made a set of arguments succinctly and cogently.†  (source)
    cogently = in a logical manner that is powerful and persuasive
  • As a defiant statement of poetry's gift for telling truth but telling it slant, this is both cogent and corrective.†  (source)
    cogent = powerfully persuasive
  • During the first part of the day on which the prohibition to leave the town came into force the Prefect's office was besieged by a crowd of applicants advancing pleas of equal cogency but equally impossible to take into consideration.†  (source)
  • I also believe, instinctively, if not very cogently, in the American political experiment, which I take to be, at bottom, a matter of trusting the citizens to know their own minds and best interests.†  (source)
    cogently = in a logical manner that is powerful and persuasive
  • He had a mind that worked in cogent and predictable ways but he brought to his argument a profound integrity, a total commitment to his belief in Pig's guilt.†  (source)
    cogent = powerfully persuasive
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