eloquent

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A disheveled man sick of endless waiting launched into an eloquent tirade ending with Samuel Beckett -- "You know what happened in the story of Godot? He never came."

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

He sees value in observing the pauses between things—intervals that, he argues, can be as eloquent and productive as any bursts of energetic activity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

For instance, Trump was a very eloquent speaker back in the 1990s, with the ability to speak in whole paragraphs and make coherent arguments.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2026

Gosling has a way of retreating into a silence more emotionally eloquent than the film’s occasionally clunky dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

Calmly he struck a wooden match and sucked noisily at his pipe with an eloquent air of benign and magnanimous forgiveness.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller