The cogency of the speaker was very compelling. From LearnThat.org.
Noun : The cogency of the argument was irrefutable. From Dictionary.com.
Fforde's disregard for temporal paradox and cogency is uncommon but not unique. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: The Tricky Trope of Time Travel] Reference
It fell in well enough with that love of emotional issues, that want of soberness and want of cogency, which is so characteristic of modern philosophers. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
I don't have any expectations about cogency, Liam. From Wordnik.com. [Rasmussen: Dem Narrowly Ahead In Alaska Senate Race] Reference
Wherein then, lies the cogency of the apostle's reasoning?. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
There is a cogency in your argument that I have seldom met with. From Wordnik.com. [A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland] Reference
Some have no cogency; others can be met by fresh objections that are valid. From Wordnik.com. [Physics] Reference
He nodded to himself, as though he appreciated the cogency of his own argument. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Revenge]
Crisis certainly lent urgency, though perhaps not cogency, to the G-20 summit in London. From Wordnik.com. [John Feffer: Viagra Diplomacy] Reference
It is not in human nature to see the whole cogency of facts that make for the other side. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
Second, since so-called arguments by analogy lack cogency and have merely heuristic value. From Wordnik.com. [NECESSITY] Reference
The unintermittency of business correspondence, the cogency of a place on the payroll. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Hence, I think, the unity of his dramatic scenes and the cogency of his historical arguments. '. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
The message lacks cogency but her hooks are potent, even when they sound nursery rhyme-inspired. From Wordnik.com. [M.I.A.: Back in Action with 'Kala'] Reference
Under the baleful gaze of three strangers, Phil Ferguson lost a good deal of his earlier cogency. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Without Icing]
We do not propose to argue the question whether the latter adds any cogency to a scientific scheme. From Wordnik.com. [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference
We proceed now to review the cogency of the above dates in the light of the history of mathematics. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
(William much impressed with the cogency of this repetition.) "But which place do you like the best?". From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
For many meanings in one passage make for confusion and deception, and destroy the cogency of argument. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
Now couldn't this be argued with equal cogency with respect to any set of beliefs, no matter how weird?. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
The real cogency of the method depends on the demonstration: on syn - thesis or mathematical deduction. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
He made an abstract of the speech and the next day presented it to the class as a model of cogency and finish. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
By the irresistible cogency and energetic expression which characterized his speech before many thousands in Drury. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
His strength lies in his convincing statement, his cogency of argument, his array of facts, and his powerful logic. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
The first two are the rules of consistency and cogency, establishing logic and the methods of evidence as com - pelling. From Wordnik.com. [RIGHT AND GOOD] Reference
That derives its immense power from other sources; from passion, intensity, imagination, size, truth, cogency of logical reason. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Your argument, such as it is, is constituted of question begging and deflections and little more, in lieu of cogency and engagement. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The assent of one who knows scientifically does not depend on his free will, since the cogency of demonstration compels him to give it. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
All these considerations take on a more imperative cogency when the treaty rights of a small people are threatened by a great world power. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
From the primary assumption of this philosophy it follows with an irresistible cogency that there is no such thing as real, objective evil. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
Eschewing the tendency towards mouthing revolutionary sounding slogans, the Party was able to lead through the sheer cogency of its argument. From Wordnik.com. [MANAGING NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TRANSFORMATION] Reference
I understand your reason for supporting stronger measures against terrorism; you have argued your case with cogency and characteristic courage. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
"Oh, Aunt Milly, I'm so glad I spoke to you!" the girl cried with unwonted warmth, for she felt immediately the cogency of Mrs. Middleton's remark. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
She has simply never learned to communicate her thoughts with any reasonable degree of cogency and so she talks like a nervous teenage c - student. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference
Aren't people petrified that they will place in office someone for his golden tongue, his race, his differences, rather than the cogency of his ideas. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
We believe that this deliberate decision of the nation, is that to which it will come whenever again appealed to; and is supported by reasons of cogency. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
His "diffidence toward cogency," however, has provided an opening for his critics, who ably cast his subtle domestic and foreign policies in a harsh light. From Wordnik.com. [Review of 'The Promise: President Obama, Year One' by Jonathan Alter] Reference
You say "it was his cogency and the coherence, transparency and unbeguiling quality of his reasoning that was relied upon" ( "beguiling" or "unbeguiling"?). From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
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