In the Boston Globe's 2007 questionnaire, he articulated a less expansive view of the White House's authority than Bush.
Partisan politics aside, we're obviously becoming a less articulate country, as serious reading declines and automatic writing on the Internet spreads.
From the mouth of a less articulate person Winton's story would be a mess, but it would still appear to flow in our mind's ear because as we listened, we'd filter out the superfluous bits and create a fluent narrative.
"We must articulate a Mormonism that is less about lifestyle choice and more about spiritual power and a personal relationship with God that can enlighten all the facets of the lives young women choose for themselves," she said.
What's troubling was the casual lumping of the book with the "blame America first" crowd, about which Hannity later complained (complaints he didn't present to Zakaria nor allow him to refute), and the knee-jerk defensiveness to a position that had been carefully articulated as less a swipe at the U.S. than an acknowledgment that the world around it was changing.
An angry left, still stinging over the 2000 election and now furious over the shifting reasons for war in Iraq, sees in Mr. Bush's less-than-articulate news conferences a less-than-sharp mind.
We assumed that larger groups, with consequently more disciplines, would mean a greater challenge to bridge the gaps between the disciplines [ 27], whereas small groups implied a less challenging task to articulate integration.
Exiting the subway at 42nd Street, next to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, it's easy to encounter homeless people who don't stay in shelters and are less able to articulate a personal message for De Blasio.
I may be exaggerating things a tiny bit, but hundreds of similar conversations have shown me that too many Christians have a strong emotional investment in a doctrine of hell they're unable to articulate, much less defend against rival interpretations.
But like other, less sophisticated efforts to articulate a comprehensive anticorporate ideology, this movie occasionally ensnares itself in contradictions it does not quite acknowledge.
