Not having a villain to boo is emotionally less satisfying, but Clark makes a cogent case for the war as a tragedy, not a crime: in his telling there is a smoking pistol in the hands of every major character.
The cogent case against the "efficient markets" dogma.
Now that Twitter serves as a broadcast platform, Techmeme plans to include cogent 140-character Twitter posts written by influential people as headlines.
I lack both the space and the heart to paraphrase the respective analyses, which for the most part are cogent but feel really on target only for lesser works, which derive their content more from the collective bias of their times and places than from the individual character of their makers.
Voltage responses and index values of the transducers located on the shear span where the critical crack formed provided cogent evidence of damage and their gradual character revealed the magnitude of damage.
So many broadly drawn characters, so little of a cogent sense of what could be going on, that it's unlikely many people would be back after that frankly-rather-dull hour-plus.
A P. G. Wodehouse character once offered a friend some cogent advice: "Never confuse the improbable with the impossible".
Hamlice is an adaptation by Punzo that entwines Hamlet with Alice in Wonderland, and in which Shakespeare's characters liberate themselves in Lewis Carroll's world (one which, incidentally, is highly cogent in Italian alternative culture, and played an important role in the insurgent movement in Italy during the 1970s, whose main radio station was called Radio Alice).
But because there is no precedent for non-selection on grounds of irritating character, Strauss and his predecessor Paul Downton have allowed a more cogent cricketing argument to be swamped.
But at 90 minutes, that play was far more concise and cogent than "Somewhere Fun," and more emotionally legible too: the central characters were a couple whose descent into a surreal landscape was motivated by shock at their son's near-fatal accident.
