When asked to articulate a major difference between herself and Mr. Seabrook, Ms. Saunders responded, "Well, for one thing, I've been married for 31 years, to the same person," an allusion to some recent troubles of Mr. Seabrook, who admitted last year having filed joint tax returns after his divorce became final.
But with neither candidate able to articulate a significant policy difference with the other, a few tremors have been inevitable.
"While the Democrats failed to articulate a broad range of policy differences with President Bush," said David Makovsky of the Washington Institute, "their key failure was their inability to persuade Americans -- in their guts -- that they were prepared to deal with the world as it really is now".
Camus, all alone, in the night, between continents, far away from everything, is already less the solemn "moralist" of legend ("the Saint," Sartre called him), more a (pre- post-structuralist in his greater concern and anxiety about language, his empre- post-structuralistd refusal to articulate a clear-cut theory: "I am too young to have a system," he told one audience.
Few could articulate a political objective.
None was able to articulate a sentence, express an idea.
The prototype allows to articulate a two-word query.
But Obama was broadly articulating a legitimate philosophical difference between the parties, and the election results suggest Obama's vision is shared by the American mainstream and the emerging majority coalition of Obama voters … There are plenty of reasons to doubt that Obama will get key elements of his second term program through.
I went to private school on the Upper East Side, so I probably wasn't the only kid in my class who could articulate the difference between a mutual fund and a hedge fund, an investment bank and a commercial bank.
Gone are the days when Mr. Obama articulated a litany of specific differences he holds with his lone remaining Democratic rival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
