The first was the candidate himself: eloquent, bright, cool, and his brilliant campaign team.
Although the struggle for academic freedom can be traced at least as far back as Socrates' eloquent defense of himself against the charge that he corrupted the youth of Athens, the modern history of this struggle, as it has played out in the university context, begins in the nineteenth century.
But then Clark himself was eloquent - literate, astringent and insolent.
Unfailingly eloquent Cicero cannot bring himself to so much as pronounce Cleopatra's name.
Nonetheless the books kept appearing and, well into old age, Mr Benn himself, plummily eloquent as ever through pipe, microphone or megaphone.
The writer Hannah Green, his third wife, wrote that he made it a "rule never to talk about his work and above all not to catch himself sounding eloquent".
Steve Reich himself waxes eloquent about Amadinda, a Hungarian percussion ensemble, and its performance of his seminal Music for 18 Musicians, which becomes a feast for the ears in this reading.
Judge Greene acknowledged that Mr. Holland had "voiced concerns and issues in a most eloquent manner" and had expressed himself in a "very coherent and organized manner".
This extraordinary pianist has established himself as an eloquent interpreter of contemporary music, and as a player who relishes technical challenges.
In 1904, covering a kidnap by a Moroccan rebel leader, he claimed the scoop of an eloquent letter from the kidnapper himself.
Mazen likes to deliver speeches as he believes himself to be eloquent.
