It matters whether he is able to articulate a program".
These challenges are so great that he will only succeed if he is able to articulate a new politics of the common good".
"Right after camp she has a quiet confidence and a calmness, and she is able to articulate, sometimes quite firmly, what she wants and doesn't want," Ms. Vollero-Levy said of her 13-year-old daughter.
In "The Devil Finds Work," a book-length essay of film criticism, Baldwin wrote, "The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he, or she, has become a threat".
It is to Yoshimoto's credit, in this artful translation by Michael Emmerich, that she is able to articulate those physical and emotional states that are more often than not aligned with silence.
In robust circumstances when political checks and balances are working well, where attention is given to detail, and where a strong opposition is able to articulate public concerns, then leaders' character traits and even flaws don't matter so much.
