cogency
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Backhaus, by contrast, works it all out for her audience in terms that might be hopeful but lack theatrical cogency,
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
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
And I believe that those who read these pages will regret that one possessed of such breadth of view, clearness, charm and cogency of style should have left a literary record so meagre.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
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