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  • I remember late in his life hearing him fairly eloquent on something which had been suggested to him by one of Fléchier's sermons,   (source)
    eloquent = speaking powerfully
  • My father longed to be eloquent with a voice that boomed out with no stammer, and he knew my grandfather desperately wanted him to be a doctor, but though he was a very bright student and a gifted poet, he was poor at math and science and felt he was a disappointment.†   (source)
  • Such bereavement, witnessed at close range, makes even the most eloquent apologia for high-risk activities ring fatuous and hollow.†   (source)
  • The crumbs and curls she found in the trash spoke most eloquently of how long he'd sat in the dark.†   (source)
  • Having spent several years in Texas and California as a graduate student, my father often spoke about America with the eloquence and wonder normally reserved for a first love.†   (source)
  • "The chairman instructed us to 'rely on eloquence rather than violence'!"†   (source)
  • Something that speaks just as eloquently of summer's approach, but with a little more flair ….†   (source)
  • She was a goddess of torment and understood the eloquence of violence.†   (source)
  • This eloquence was definitely lacking in the concept of planetary orbs and the zodiac.†   (source)
  • Eloquence is for Erudite," he says.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you also find me more eloquent than you.†   (source)
  • Lawton was eloquent and venomous.†   (source)
  • Narcissa looked up at him, her face eloquent with despair.†   (source)
  • But in our life together, we had long passed the point of eloquent silences.†   (source)
  • What made Mr. Merrill infinitely more attractive was that he was full of doubt; he expressed our doubt in the most eloquent and sympathetic ways.†   (source)
  • As Mr. Prud'homme looked at him and listened to the scatterbrained eloquence of his explanation, he could be seen rapidly losing his grip on sternness.†   (source)
  • Now the demons of self-consciousness and talent had struck her daughter dumb, and though Briony was no less loving—at breakfast she had sidled up and locked fingers with her—Emily mourned the passing of an age of eloquence.†   (source)
  • His speech was so eloquent that all the birds were glad they had brought him, and nodded their heads in approval of all he said.†   (source)
  • Their on-again/off-again rap career took place during the tumultuous months of the East Coast–West Coast rivalry of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, who spoke eloquently of a world turned upside down.†   (source)
  • Our document, though in its own way eloquent, is on these subjects mute.†   (source)
  • "Yeah," he said, dropping his usual eloquence.†   (source)
  • "He speaks most eloquently with his sword, however," the queen said, "and his devotion to our realm is unquestioned."†   (source)
  • Well, when you put it so eloquently.†   (source)
  • What I'd experienced as weightlessness, a sort of sweeping, last-chance glide, was not at all the eloquent and affecting farewell I'd imagined.†   (source)
  • Very eloquent and deep.†   (source)
  • David's uncle, Halina Wind's brother, Rabbi Leon Wind, presided over the ceremony, and spoke eloquently, with reverence and power.†   (source)
  • As Ogden runs, you can't see his facial expressions or read his mind, but his body language is eloquent: you little supposedly fleet-footed sonofabitch.†   (source)
  • At this supreme moment, the people cheered the man who, after a shaky start in office, learned how to command armies, brought down slavery, and become a most eloquent and moving speaker.†   (source)
  • The campus was vast and rambling, wild with Pacific color, and yet the smallest detail had been carefully considered, shaped by the most eloquent hands.†   (source)
  • I should have used that time to come up with something more eloquent.†   (source)
  • It was an eloquent shrug, but it did not offer much in the way of explanation.†   (source)
  • "Aye," Vic says, bursting into florid eloquence.†   (source)
  • Another session with the collective, most of it held in an eloquent and educated Spanish I could not speak myself, yet I grasped everything being said.†   (source)
  • I tire at the mere thought of writing it, and, besides, the suffering of this country has already been sufficiently chronicled, and by pens far more learned and eloquent than mine.†   (source)
  • The scene of injured people, medics, smoking steel, all washed in a strong and eerie light, to ok on the eloquence of a formal composition.†   (source)
  • Basta did not answer, but his silence was more eloquent than any words.†   (source)
  • He was as ragged as a rock star, but his missing teeth and the unhealthy pallor of his skin spoke eloquently of a life of privation and despair.†   (source)
  • The obsessions with eloquence and general knowledge would appear to be ones that emerged with our generation, probably in the wake of Mr Marshall, when lesser men trying to emulate his greatness mistook the superficial for the essence.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo Daza, who by now was almost drunk, did not seem to notice his lack of attention, for he was satisfied with his own indomitable eloquence.†   (source)
  • Herder had been the forerunner, collecting folk songs from many lands under the eloquent title Voices of the People.†   (source)
  • Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent.†   (source)
  • I had the feeling no words we spoke could be as eloquent as this simple interaction, so I bowed to him and went on to the next man.†   (source)
  • Minerva argued eloquently that Mama herself had heard Lio's ideas, and she had even agreed with them.†   (source)
  • She could afford to slip into the vernacular became she had such eloquent command of English.†   (source)
  • But Christian, the little boy in the hall, made an eloquent argument for adding flexibility to the normas.†   (source)
  • He was deliberately making some eloquent unspoken plea to her, he was deliberately keeping off the subject.†   (source)
  • But Gottfried was still a Vanger, as well as charming and eloquent.†   (source)
  • Jerome argues with great force and eloquence that it is hardly typical of high-school-age adolescents to feel that they have to "atone" for anything-particularly for an offense against a peer who has been ostracized from existing cliques.†   (source)
  • She didn't want to be anywhere near them, though, because even if they said nothing, their expressions were plenty eloquent.†   (source)
  • And before you squander more of your gilt-tongued eloquence, you should know that appeals based upon our shared blood are meaningless to me.†   (source)
  • The newspapers were filled with stories of her beauty and eloquence.†   (source)
  • If we want to understand what makes someone like Tom Gau so persuasive, in other words, we have to look at much more than his obvious eloquence.†   (source)
  • The old man's slow, thoughtful gaze was raised a moment to her eloquent, flushed face, and then dropped considerately to the path.†   (source)
  • "That old man, as you so eloquently put it, started this place over thirty years ago and has funded it ever since," I responded.†   (source)
  • A slight movement, but eloquent because Stroll could remain motionless for hours.†   (source)
  • He had no money, and no eloquence with which to persuade Lorena to trust him, but he did have a dogged persistence and was prepared to sit in the Dry Bean all night in hope that his evident need would finally move her.†   (source)
  • Former ambassador Stephen Lewis of Canada, one of the most eloquent advocates for the world's women, has suggested that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon should make mass rape a priority and pledge to resign if member countries don't support him.†   (source)
  • I had never heard him speak so much, so eloquently.†   (source)
  • In her book about the journey, Where the Indus Is Young, the normally eloquent Murphy is so overcome attempting to describe her journey through this gorge that she struggles to spit out a description.†   (source)
  • And, though she mutters an abbreviated hi (can't get much shorter than that, I know, but it came out kind of like "h"), the almost obscene roll of her eyes says most eloquently, Oh, great.†   (source)
  • "I'm going to say this and it probably won't sound good or eloquent or whatever and I'm probably going to ramble, but just let me say it, okay?†   (source)
  • There, a pebbled beach slowly gave way to a grassy slope and a tangled thicket of growth around what had once been a grand and eloquent structure.†   (source)
  • The attempt was eloquently supported by David Croll (Lib.†   (source)
  • 'Please,' he said, the voice eloquent and gentle as he implored me.†   (source)
  • Her uncle was so eloquent that the child could feel in her own skin the burning sting of snakebites, see reptiles slide across the carpet between the legs of the jacaranda room-divider, and hear the shrieks of macaws behind the drawing-room drapes.†   (source)
  • Calrnly he struck a wooden match and sucked noisily at his pipe with an eloquent air of benign and magnanimous forgiveness.†   (source)
  • Various middleweight preachers showed up to eulogize him, led by the church's eloquent head pastor, Walter Fauntroy, a longtime aide to Dr. Martin Luther King and a Congressional representative from the District for twenty years.†   (source)
  • As you can see, Teneo indicators are roughly similar to human parentheses, but far more eloquent.†   (source)
  • I was quite aware of how moronic I sounded with my less-than-eloquent replies, but there wasn't much I could do about it.†   (source)
  • The dreams were eloquent, but they were also beautiful.†   (source)
  • Where had his eloquence gone?†   (source)
  • "How eloquent," said the woman.†   (source)
  • You know, eloquent and romantic.†   (source)
  • There were insults exchanged that would long fester, bombast and hyperbole in abundance, and moments when eloquence was brought to bear with a dramatic effect remarkable even in the Commons.†   (source)
  • He was being congratulated on his eloquence, slapped on the back by his senatorial supporters.†   (source)
  • He was not an eloquent man, I remember, but he stood with his old Bible open in one hand, his voice warm and a little weak but clear and coaxing, and ushered those people into the outstretched arms of God.†   (source)
  • His argument was eloquent and, upon my father, entirely wasted.†   (source)
  • No, she said, she didn't want to sue and neither, despite poor precedent and all his eloquent listing of the risks, did she want a termination.†   (source)
  • In his sagging eyes we found the language we'd been searching for, a language more eloquent than the cheap bead necklaces of words my mother offered.†   (source)
  • The valet shrugged eloquently.†   (source)
  • That eloquent speech was a triumph.†   (source)
  • She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary.†   (source)
  • And you, estimable Vizier, whether he desists or not, by no means allow the flow of your eloquence to be interrupted.†   (source)
  • When she looked up at him again, her face was honest, her eyes eloquent.†   (source)
  • But even the most eloquent journalists and educators find that their rhetorical tools are not keen enough to cut the link that ties these forms to the younger speakers of the language.†   (source)
  • His face spoke eloquently of the day's rigors.†   (source)
  • Okay, maybe not the most eloquent last words, but it was how I felt.†   (source)
  • Regardless, Adams congratulated Baldwin at the end of his presentation for a making such a "clear and eloquent argument."†   (source)
  • In 1791, Tom Paine, the most eloquent visionary of the American Revolution, sounded off: Freedom has been hunted around the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear made man afraid to think.†   (source)
  • And Rowan has never understood 'our kind,' as you so eloquently put it.†   (source)
  • He was two days from his execution, and very eloquent in his desperation.†   (source)
  • Their most eloquent spokesman was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Twenty years after he had described the Union cause as "the Christian crusade of the 19th century," Holmes declared in a Memorial Day address to other veterans in 1884 that "in our youth our hearts were touched with fire.†   (source)
  • She told them about Frederick Douglass, the most famous of the escaped slaves, of his eloquence, of his magnificent appearance.†   (source)
  • Do the people who make these wild claims think that their eloquence can convince the people of America that any absurd statement is true?†   (source)
  • The halfling's eloquence stunned the spokesman.†   (source)
  • It is likely that this last burst of eloquence comes from Plato, not Socrates.†   (source)
  • "So now that we have those incredibly important matters out of the way," Johnny Wayne said, "explain this deal, as you so eloquently put it, one more time."†   (source)
  • "Sally Jean has her heart set on these really eloquent pajamas that are in the window of Ivey's," Misty whispered.†   (source)
  • I have the painful duty of disagreeing with your eloquent manifesto.†   (source)
  • At the end he was some kind of eloquent if perverted saint.†   (source)
  • …two of her sons were dead, one by suicide (her favorite, her most intricately calibrated, her kindest son), and one killed in World War II (her only truly lighthearted son)—where once Bessie Glass's eyes alone could report these facts, with an eloquence and a seeming passion for detail that neither her husband nor any of her adult surviving children could bear to look at, let alone take in, now, in 1955, she was apt to use this same terrible Celtic equipment to break the news, usually…†   (source)
  • One of the sailors has pursed his lips against a woodwind, his fingers and thumb governing, shall we say, the ventages, whereupon, giving it breath, let us say, with his mouth, it, the pipe, discourses, as the saying goes, most eloquent music.†   (source)
  • The implication was eloquently clear and unmistakable.†   (source)
  • Or, "As Tom wrote to me so eloquently just before his death …."†   (source)
  • The little keepsake book given to my father so long ago, of which I never heard a word spoken by anybody, has grown in eloquence to me.†   (source)
  • I do not have the eloquence of some of the people you have heard in the last few days.†   (source)
  • Now, as she brushed past the frowning Yura, spinning with her unknown partner, she caught and pressed his hand and smiled eloquently.†   (source)
  • Selvam turned and smiled at us, raising eloquent eyebrows: Was not the child exactly the same as other babies?†   (source)
  • Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people.†   (source)
  • Here he wrote perhaps the brightest chapter of his history, for as "Old Man Eloquent" he 48 etvg— John F. Kennedy devoted his remarkable prestige and tireless energies to the struggle against slavery.†   (source)
  • Because this silence betokened-nay, this silence was not silence at all but most eloquent denial.†   (source)
  • And when she said irritably, "I do wish you wouldn't call me boss!" he did not answer, though the silence between them said eloquently what they were afraid to say.†   (source)
  • When the minister spoke from the pulpit with power and fervid eloquence...   (source)
    eloquence = powerful use of language
  • We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire.   (source)
  • Mae surprised herself with her eloquence, and the audience answered with thunderous applause.†   (source)
  • Rose's manner was delicate, speaking eloquently of our changed sisterly condition.†   (source)
  • "Such eloquence, Gared," Ser Waymar observed.†   (source)
  • Ser Hyle was cursing them eloquently, but not the boy.†   (source)
  • But, as the histories had so eloquently recorded, to defeat your enemy you must know him.†   (source)
  • He was an exhorter, all right, and I was caught in the crude, insane eloquence of his plea.†   (source)
  • What made Jefferson's work surpassing was the grace and eloquence of expression.†   (source)
  • That was the stuff of rooftop eloquence.†   (source)
  • Here were "fortunes, abilities, learning, eloquence, acuteness" equal to any.†   (source)
  • Her shyness did not conceal her eloquence of mettle and will.†   (source)
  • His eloquence and vehemence wrought the little man up to a degree of heat and effervescence….†   (source)
  • True eloquence consisted of truth and "rapid reason."†   (source)
  • The strength of James Otis was his fiery eloquence.†   (source)
  • They did not possess the gift of eloquence.†   (source)
  • Then again, he thought, there would be a rather majestic eloquence to it-antimatter, the ultimate scientific achievement, being used to vaporizeHe refused to accept the preposterous thought.†   (source)
  • Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!†   (source)
  • Huge, slow-moving weather system rolling in on us from afar, blowing us randomly like —" eloquently, he batted at the air as if at a blown leaf.†   (source)
  • It was endearing; so was his slight stutter, because it made us nervous for him—afraid for him, should he have his eloquence snatched from him and be struck down with a crippling speech impediment.†   (source)
  • Mercer had written the lyrics and sometimes also the music for dozens of songs I'd known since childhood, gentle songs that had a mellow eloquence: "Jeepers Creepers,"†   (source)
  • There we were, in our rented tuxedos, boys more afraid of pimples than of war; but Owen's tux was not rented—my grandmother had bought it for him—and in its tailoring, in its lack of shine, in its touch of satin on its slim lapels, it eloquently spoke to the matter that was so obvious to us all: how The Voice expressed what we were unable to say.†   (source)
  • She'd seen these talks online, but being here, in person, seeing Bailey's mind at work, hearing his off-the-cuff eloquence—it was better than she thought possible.†   (source)
  • Spare me the eloquence, Priest.†   (source)
  • Gullberg used all his eloquence to convince the prime minister not to allow information about Zalachenko to pass beyond his own office; there was, he insisted, no need for the foreign minister, the minister of defence, or any other member of the government to be informed.†   (source)
  • He took care of his mother, a Catholic of the old eloquence, wearing a scapular, blessing herself and touching her thumb-knuckle to her lips, and he loved her and watched her die.†   (source)
  • And of greater consequence in recent years had been his spirited determination and eloquence in the cause of American rights and liberties.†   (source)
  • He shrugged eloquently.†   (source)
  • But Wilberforce joined after abolitionism was well under way, and the public wasn't stirred solely by Wilberforce's eloquence.†   (source)
  • Jerome, of course, is absolutely right-about birds, at any rate-and his eloquence is undoubtedly responsible in large part for the advancement of the "practical joker" theory, which the White Commission approached but did not actually state.†   (source)
  • I know that he spoke, as always, with eloquence and force, and that he used his beautiful voice as an instrument fashioned by God for just such a purpose.†   (source)
  • Then Mortenson continued with unusual eloquence, the rawness he felt after his passage through Afghanistan scouring away his self-consciousness.†   (source)
  • In the letter he not only expressed his own conviction that the Fugitive Slave Law was wrong, but he eloquently expressed the refusal of the Abolitionists to obey the law: "….†   (source)
  • It discouraged her to look out the window at the empty plains and reflect that even if she had the eloquence to write, and the time, she had nothing to write about.†   (source)
  • He had intended to take a much stronger stand with Colonel Cathcart on the matter of the sixty missions, to speak out with courage, logic and eloquence on a subject about which he had begun to feel very deeply.†   (source)
  • My hope is that you will be as amazed as I am at how eloquently these essays speak to us across the decades--and help us think about our own beliefs.†   (source)
  • Chris's father spoke eloquently of the pain of losing a son, but with satisfaction that he had died in the struggle.†   (source)
  • She turned to look at him and he saw the light of an inner smile, while her face remained solemnly grave; it was the most eloquently personal glance he had ever seen directed at himself, while she answered in a quiet, impersonal voice, "Mr.†   (source)
  • … I didn't want to sound 'lame' and, as I had observed 'on the corner,' most of the 'cool brothers' could 'talk the talk'—and those who exhibited urban eloquence never did so in standard English.†   (source)
  • Initially, Nasuada was indifferent to his arguments, but his eloquence and the clarity of his reasoning impressed her.†   (source)
  • She answered me with a gesture of overstated eloquence; she emptied the vodka bottle into her glass and began downing it defiantly.†   (source)
  • I remember watching one old professor speak long and eloquently on U.S. diplomacy and the legacy of mistrust this country had sown in the rest of the Western Hemisphere, and as he would talk he would reach up to clutch the lapels of his robe, a robe that was not there.†   (source)
  • …the recognition of finding a conscious enemy, with only a deaf wall to batter, a wall of the most effective soundproofing: indifference, that swallowed blows, chords and screams-a battle of silence, for a man who could give to sounds a greater eloquence than they had ever carried-the silence of obscurity, of loneliness, of the nights when some rare orchestra played one of his works and he looked at the darkness, knowing that his soul went in trembling, widening circles from a radio…†   (source)
  • Hanson spoke eloquently, saying that a nation's grievances cannot be suppressed, that people will always find a way to give voice to those grievances.†   (source)
  • The Gov% die confession differs from the many similar ones extracted under torture in that the accused woman claimed, most eloquently, to have enjoyed sex with the devil.†   (source)
  • I cannot say that I am even a sound Christian, though the code of conduct to which I subscribe was preached more eloquently by Jesus Christ than by any other.†   (source)
  • But the real mark of eloquence is to invent your own: "The late Bob Bullock was a great speaker of Texan, and one day he was complaining about some young whippersnapper from the Washington Post who'd been in to interview him.†   (source)
  • The true core tenants of Islam are justice, tolerance, and charity, and Syed Abbas represented the moderate center of Muslim faith eloquently.†   (source)
  • I imagined myself making a speech and caught in striking poses by flashing cameras, snapped at the end of some period of dazzling eloquence.†   (source)
  • I studied its adroit, inexorable images and translated the silent eloquence of its mythology and language so simply and unceasingly uttered in gold.†   (source)
  • "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.†   (source)
  • He is just a running boy, a half-seen figure from the streets, but the way running reveals some clue to being, the way a runner bares himself to consciousness, this is how the dark-skinned kid seems to open to the world, how the bloodrush of a dozen strides brings him into eloquence.†   (source)
  • He was fine-featured, with expressive green eyes that could register violence or merriment with equal eloquence.†   (source)
  • 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?†   (source)
  • "I want to hear about every disgusting, stinky detail," Pig said in a tone that eloquently expressed all the wildness and animalism of sex.†   (source)
  • …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…†   (source)
  • He conducted the debate not only with great ingenuity and eloquence, but with equal politeness and candor.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • It had eloquence.†   (source)
  • With the promptitude of classical illusions, a depth of research …. and a torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before him.†   (source)
  • Colonel Quincy, as an officer in the militia and possibly the wealthiest man in Braintree, was its leading citizen, but also someone Adams greatly admired for his polish and eloquence.†   (source)
  • There was theory and there was practice in government, and Adams, the delegate who, as Rush said, could see "the whole subject at a glance," was determined that with theory now so eloquently proclaimed, practice be attended with equal diligence, and he wanted nothing about the deliberations to be concealed.†   (source)
  • Always he talked, his talking was his appearance, as if there were no eyes, nose, or mouth to remember; in his face there was every subtlety and eloquence, and no features, no kindness, for there was no awareness whatever of the present.†   (source)
  • He has spoken not angrily or with alarm but with gentle, easy, brief eloquence, and Sophie finds herself affected by the words and the utter conviction they convey.†   (source)
  • With rugged, homely but earnest eloquence, he begged his weary colleagues in an impromptu plea not to plunge the nation into new agitations over the slavery issue.†   (source)
  • Another time, this was eloquently illustrated in a small community where there had been much tension between Protestants and Catholics.†   (source)
  • I had never heard of Rudolf Hoss before that day, but through her understated, simple eloquence she had caused him to exist as vividly as any apparition that had stalked my most neurotic dreams.†   (source)
  • No, wait a minute, I'll show you something," and he would begin hunting for some newspaper with a controversial article, banging the drawers of bis desk and stimulating his eloquence with this noisy fuss.†   (source)
  • Beyond doubt those words characterize Rudolf Hoss and the workings of his mind, an organism so crushingly banal as to be a paradigm of the thesis eloquently stated by Hannah Arendt some years after his hanging.†   (source)
  • Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!†   (source)
  • Sententious he might occasionally be, but never pompous, never preacherish in tone, and I relished both the letters' complexity of thought and feeling and their simple eloquence; whenever I finished one I was usually close to tears, or doubled over with laughter, and they almost always set me immediately to rereading passages in the Bible, from which my father had derived many of his prose cadences and much of his wisdom.†   (source)
  • And Mr. MacKenzie said it was for fear of my life, and despite his nose he was very eloquent.†   (source)
  • I let the island plead for me instead, speaking with its eloquent beauty.†   (source)
  • Unlike her golden-tongued sister, Dede was not eloquent with reasons.†   (source)
  • I attempt to find the most eloquent way to say it, but I can't.†   (source)
  • The crowd wants retribution, not reconciliation; they want grand and eloquent words.†   (source)
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