cogency

Example Sentences

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Fuller, who died last fall, created such an impressive range of Black and white humanity in “A Soldier’s Play” that the work has lost none of its cogency and sting.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2023

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

But, whether or not Descartes fully understood his own thought, this criticism is very superficial, and it gets only a specious cogency from the same matter-of-fact history that we have already pushed aside.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.