The debate on constitutional reform also heard eloquent pleas from younger delegates backing an amendment to reduce the voting age to 16. 18-year-old Olivia Bailey pointed out the irony that she had been able to attend the national policy forum since the age of 15 but had yet to cast her first vote.
Overflow crowds lined up, hours in advance, to hear this eloquent man, who died at 57, speak.
But his jihadis sometimes read like agglomerations of what political scientists have been telling us for years (young men with few opportunities who hear an eloquent sermon from a radical imam, and presto).
Honestly, how many young guys do we hear waxing eloquent on the celestial city?
Illinois Representative Isaac Arnold wrote: "distinguished soldiers and citizens filled every available seat, to hear the eloquent old man speak on a measure that was to consummate the warfare of forty years against slavery".
Suffering from what sounds like dyslexia, he is unable to sort out the letters on the eye chart, but after hearing his eloquent paean to his own flying skills, she passes him.
The thought of a British Superman had never occurred to me before hearing the eloquent voice of Henry Cavil on the other end of the telephone.
It's not highbrow work, but if you've ever interviewed Meryl Streep or Stellan Skarsgard, you won't hear two more eloquent people.
"I hear people speak so eloquent, with all the big vocabulary words, and I feel so inadequate".
When I hear or read an eloquent Muslim woman defending the headscarf or the more extreme forms of covering which, they say, are so liberating, I am reminded of that dangerous idea: the idea of complicity in one's own repression, the state of willingly accepting and enacting what the oppressor, or the oppressive mindset, dictates.
