Malcolm Sinclair is a doctor rigid with self-belief, who expels his words martially as if they were pellets, and is excited by his own ardour into trance-like displays of eloquence.
This display of over-the-top eloquence ("Where now, oh! Vile worm, is all thy boasted fortitude and resolution?") was enough to start a subscription fund, get him off St. Croix and send him to college in New York.
Maqāmah, ( Arabic: "assembly") Arabic literary genre in which entertaining anecdotes, often about rogues, mountebanks, and beggars, written in an elegant, rhymed prose (sajʿ), are presented in a dramatic or narrative context most suitable for the display of the author's eloquence, wit, and erudition.
Displaying the eloquence of a man twice, if not three times his age in a groundbreaking speech last year he said: "I'm sending a message to everyone who knowingly or ignorantly uses this word to describe our people, whether you are a gangsta rapper who uses it to communicate with your boys or someone who looks down on those without a college education..
A series of taped lectures — given at Harvard in 1967 but only recently transcribed — display the eloquence and erudite, offhand wit familiar from his writings as well as a charming, plainspoken modesty.
Truthfulness means a refusal of eloquence.
That day produced little of eloquence from our political leaders.
Although they had varying degrees of eloquence, each of them talked a terrific game.
Juana's death was another instance in which Lupita regretted her lack of eloquence.
Here, many of us thought when he was elected, was an ace of eloquence.
