Sentence examples for cogent as from inspiring English sources

But if we assume that that version of the argument is cogent as well, then it follows that 'that'-clauses don't refer to sentences of any kind at all and, hence, that they must refer to propositions.[10] Now, notice that the issue so far has been purely semantic.

Philip Goodwin adds a nice turn as Helicanus, and Brenda Wehle is cogent as Old Gower, the narrator.

But they are not really convinced the bull market is back, as cogent as my arguments are.

Still, what comment there is is cogent, as when Mr. Gibbs cites Schubert's "uncanny ability to make the major mode sound despairing".

One of the pleasures is the way son sets off and defers to father, whose solos on "A Sleepin' Bee" and "Street of Dreams" are as cogent as anything put down here by his more famous child.

This voice is trained into us early on, back in high school or Comp 101, when we're taught to make our arguments as succinct and cogent as possible, omitting wishy-washy qualifications like "in my opinion".

You could tolerate not hearing Ives's "Concord" Sonata too often -- oddly few pianists offer it -- if every performance were as fresh, as inviting, as cogent and as delectable in sound and gesture as Marilyn Nonken's at Miller Theater on Thursday evening.

His reasoning for establishing registries is as cogent today as then, and if the philosophical and emotional objections to his ideas are less 100 years later, we still lack the political will to institute such registries in the United States.

"They realized that snob appeal can be a cogent sales factor, as long as it does not scare away the younger, not necessarily rich but intensely consumer-oriented segment of the population".

If only Perl's own musings were as cogent and illuminating as the writers he quotes.

In the end, my advice was not as cogent and articulate as I had intended — I used a popular vernacular term for bovine droppings — but I stand by it.