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as in effectiveness
the capacity to persuade
the cogency of Thomas Paine's celebrated case for American independence
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as in impact
the quality of an utterance that provokes interest and produces an effect
satirical comments of great cogency
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European leaders refused to comment on the record about their perceptions of Biden’s cogency.
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Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
Here, his body of writing, published as well as unpublished, historical as well as contemporaneous, stands out for its cogency, intricacy, and fluency.
—Fredrik Logevall, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
The emphasis is on technical perfection, formal cogency, and unity of interpretive approach.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Yet, by using Martin’s words to ferry one scene to the next, & Juliet also ends up emphasizing the cogency of his work.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
But in her first directorial feature in 15 years, cinematographer Johnes doesn’t organize this material with ideal cogency.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
But Post evidently finds inspiration in the late rocker’s gloomy cogency.
—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
Is Biden, who has already suffered attacks as to his mental cogency, up for it?
—Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 29 May 2022
His elliptic, woozy songwriting, crammed with texture and motion, yet shunning structure and cogency, subverted ideas about how rap songs could sound and be arranged.
—Stephen Kearse, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2022
Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
Here, his body of writing, published as well as unpublished, historical as well as contemporaneous, stands out for its cogency, intricacy, and fluency.
—Fredrik Logevall, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
The emphasis is on technical perfection, formal cogency, and unity of interpretive approach.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Yet, by using Martin’s words to ferry one scene to the next, & Juliet also ends up emphasizing the cogency of his work.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
But in her first directorial feature in 15 years, cinematographer Johnes doesn’t organize this material with ideal cogency.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
But Post evidently finds inspiration in the late rocker’s gloomy cogency.
—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
Is Biden, who has already suffered attacks as to his mental cogency, up for it?
—Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 29 May 2022
His elliptic, woozy songwriting, crammed with texture and motion, yet shunning structure and cogency, subverted ideas about how rap songs could sound and be arranged.
—Stephen Kearse, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2022
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