Sentence examples for be cogent from inspiring English sources
adjective
Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
This is too cursory to be cogent.
We don't need all politicians to be Mensa-worthy, but we do expect them to be cogent and competent.
What Luce was sure about, right from the first, was what Time should be: cogent, compartmentalized, clear and altogether alliterative.
Mr. Kupfer's staging would be cogent whatever the setting, but he has updated the action to the 1950s (judging from Yan Tax's costumes) and set it in and around a ruined church (sets by Hans Schavernoch, lighting by Jürgen Hoffmann).
As strictly a survey of a historical phenomenon, "Christianity" -- the sequel to a 1998 presentation covering the first millennium -- does its job creditably, managing to be cogent and sweeping at the same time.
Linklater barely puts a foot wrong, and he shows that a movie about happiness can be cogent and robust, rather than sappy or wispy; and yet, for all its gambolling mischief, "Everybody Wants Some!!" leaves us with plenty to rue.
Her descriptions of intricate deals are cogent.
"But I know now that my position is cogent.
Therefore, he does not know that his proof is cogent.
They are cogent but, so far, pretty lonely.
