There were so many tweets that were "eloquent," I figured why not poke some fun!
Mr Higgins's website describes him as "a renowned author, poet and speaker, a principled, eloquent and passionate public figure and statesman".
Garcia was the band's most accomplished songwriter, most soulful singer, most charismatic figure, most eloquent interviewee, most recognizable icon, most splendid thaumaturge.
Here was a religiously observant Jew with a cosmopolitan outlook, a decorated paratrooper who believed deeply in peace with the Arabs, an eloquent, fast-rising public figure accessible to a broad range of citizens.
Transcendence, though, was always heavily contingent on the performance of Jerry Garcia, who, in addition to being the Dead's (quoting myself here) "most accomplished songwriter, most soulful singer, most charismatic figure, most eloquent interviewee, most recognizable icon, most splendid thaumaturge," was the one who provided the iridescent guitar leads that transported the band's fans.
Some of his most eloquent plates are single figures, such as the Madonna in a Courtyard and St. Sebastian.
His seated figures are eloquent of the gravity and monumentality of the human body, and in them intense emotion is suggested with the surest of means.
I cannot remember those plaintive, questioning three-note treble figures sounding as eloquent as they did on Saturday.
But eloquent, fresh inventions by underappreciated figures like Blinky Palermo, by the Venezuelan-based artist known as Gego, by Fred Sandback, whose string sculptures are delicate drawings in space, and by visionaries like Oiticica and Lygia Clark, whose performances engaged sculpture in a giddy, graceful program of urban renewal, enlisting every human sense, even including nonsense.
A tall and graceful figure, he made an eloquent public orator for the university.
But on the day we see him he is more eloquent and articulate than almost any political figure I have met.
