All 12 Uses of
eloquent
in
Look Homeward, Angel
- And he would go, either struggling clumsily and screaming eloquent abuse at his suppliant captors, or jovially acquiescent, bellowing a wanton song of his youth along the latticed crescent, and through the supper-silent highways of the town.†
Chpt 1
- The frightened negro lifted Eugene, who was quite unconscious of his sudden return to the stage, into the burly arms of Doctor McGuire, who cursed the driver eloquently.†
Chpt 1eloquently = with powerful use of language
- He saw himself as the young captain of industry, dominant, victorious, rich; as the great criminal-lawyer bending to his eloquence a charmed court—but always he saw his return from the voyage wearing the great coronal of the world upon his modest brows.†
Chpt 1eloquence = powerful use of language
- He read piously all the circulars the Curtis Publishing Company sent to its agents: he posed himself in the various descriptive attitudes that were supposed to promote business—the proper manner of "approach," the most persuasive manner of drawing the journal from the bag, the animated description of its contents, in which he was supposed to be steeped as a result of his faithful reading— "the good salesman," the circulars said, "should know in and out the article he is selling"—a knowledge that Luke avoided, but which he replaced with eloquent invention of his own.†
Chpt 1
- And men, fascinated somehow by this strange eloquence from a little boy, bought.†
Chpt 1 *eloquence = powerful use of language
- Later, in the cool dark, Gant, rocking violently, would hold forth on the porch, his great voice carrying across the quiet neighborhood, as he held the charmed boarders by his torrential eloquence, his solution of problems of state, his prejudiced but bold opinion upon current news.†
Chpt 1
- Coker exclaimed, "this is eloquence!"†
Chpt 2
- When there was no sale, he greeted incoming tourists at the station-curbing with eloquent invitations to Dixieland, rich, persuasive, dominant above all the soliciting babel of the cardrivers, negro hotel-porters, and boarding-house husbands.†
Chpt 2
- Whatever of fear or shame locked them in careful silence, whatever decorous pretense of custom guarded their tongues, they found release in the eloquent symbols of verse.†
Chpt 2
- Or, as the doctor's more eloquent iambics had it: "Fair Commerce, sister of the arts, thou, too, Shalt take thy lawful place upon our stage.†
Chpt 2
- She returned his greeting elegantly, with a shade of refined hauteur, then looked out the window again, grimacing eloquently at her parents who gazed at her raptly from the platform.†
Chpt 3eloquently = with powerful use of language
- The old man stood up with a quiet salute of parting, slow, calm, eloquently tender.†
Chpt 3