cogency
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Tall, handsome and with a roguish charm, Bo seemed to enjoy the challenge, answering questions with wit and cogency.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2022
Her book has very little celebration in it, but it is a triumphant document of her refusal to be unseen, her ongoing dedication to cogency.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022
As a result, White argues with cogency and passion, Hitchcock still “speaks with urgency to today’s audiences.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2021
The cogency of her intervention is twofold: its relative rarity, and the fact that Swift is who she is – not Joan Baez getting arrested on a peace march, or Paul Kantner urging “Gotta Revolution!”
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2018
Many of us are astonishingly uncritical as to the coherence and cogency of words if they be but set to a good tune.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
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