This uncompromising stance is a cogent challenge to conventional narrative styles, a declaration that the most convincing versions of reality might not be smooth or fluent, but chaotic and fractured.
I recently reread Anita Brookner's first novel A Start in Life (Penguin), and it left me thinking that maybe all novelists should be forbidden from publishing until they are 53; that way they would already have a finished style and a mature, cogent, individual view of the world.
He presented Kiyash and I with a cogent argument as to why brief-style bathing suits are superior and why American men were silly for not wearing them.
He drew admiring audiences in his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984, but his wooden speaking style and lack of a cogent campaign message were blamed for his poor showing at the polls.
Mr. Glenn's celebrity continued to draw audiences wherever he went, but his wooden speaking style and lack of a cogent campaign message were cited for his poor showing in the 1984 Presidential primaries.
The group at its most spacious, crisp and cogent then (whatever your view of the showy style of the bassist): two discs, 18 pieces taken taken from every stage of their decade-long history with only three from hit 1977 album Heavy Weather.
Strengths of this manuscript were 1) cogent and thoughtful summary/discussion of the articles, 2) an informal and readable style, and 3) interesting content.
Her breezy style conceals an aptitude for reasoned analysis, and she incorporates a cogent summary of clinical research on aging into her tour of the fountain grounds, a one-woman guinea pig gamely trotting down a dozen different paths in search of the bubbling waters.
The story of Dorian Gray, whose portrait suffers the consequences of aging and debauchery while his body remains young and gorgeous, is such a cogent reflection of the human dilemma that it's unlikely to go out of style.
But if Mill's style of reasoning and writing was plain and unadorned, it was at least clear and cogent.
As a production it became the first to define what became known as a classic RSC style, recognisable according to Kenneth Tynan by "solid Brechtian settings that emphasise wood and metal; and by cogent, deliberate verse speaking, that discards melodic cadenzas in favour of meaning and motivation".
