cogent

Example Sentences

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Their playing was electric in its immediacy, cogent in conception and executed with meticulous care—the orchestra sounding lush yet transparent, with enviably subtle dynamic shifts.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It is plain that nature took but little trouble in fashioning his outer man...As a close observer and cogent reasoner, he has few equals and perhaps no superior in the world,” the reporter wrote.

From Literature

For the reporters covering this president, it has, in a word, been impossible to pull a cogent quote from him.

From Salon

The admonitions in Geismer’s book, published three years ago, cogently apply to the present and future.

From Salon

But if that were the case, a cogent narrative could make that point just as well as the facts about Kerr that appear on screen at the end of the film.

From Salon